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| ya — a: ORMATION co AIMED FD-302 (Rev. 10-6-95) HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED — MATE le-00-2009 BY 60324 UC BAWSRS/LSC -l- FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Date of transcription 03/04/2002 BRUGE IVINS, Ph.D., Research Scientist, white male, approximately/ 40 years of age, United States Medical Research Institute off/Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), 1490 Po Kepee Dé Ft. Detric fe) e identities of the Special Agents BIC (SAs) and the nature of the interview. was also present duting the interview. IVINS provided the following information: IVINS recognized the mailing tube ane the glass tube bearing the label "AMES 255414 BB. anthracis" hown in the digital photographs provided by he photographs on February 21, 2002 at the request of In 1985, IVINS took a sample of agar and bacteria from the glass tube and started a culture of the B. anthracis Ames strain. The glass tube was stored in the refrigerated area of the laboratory at the time IVINS took the 1985 sample. The culture that IVINS started in 1985 contained viable B. anthracis. IVINS maintained stocks of his 1985 culture at the current time. “be biE vr No eee Investigation on 2/26/2002 a . i File # Date dictated 3/4 /2002 = bé by _ . _b7C = ee ~ p&l This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBL It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.