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th ¢€ QRMATION CONTATHED ‘ i HE IS UNCLASSIFIED FD-302 (Rev. 10-6-95) DATE la-059-2008 BY 60324 TC BAW/RS/LSC FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Date of transcription 05/09/2004 On May 7, 2004, BRUCE EDWARD IVINS was interviewed at his place of employment, the United Statés Army Medical Institute of bs Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland. b7c The interview was conducted by Supervisory Special Agent (ssa) | [——Ssdandd Special agent [of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). IVINS, who was already familiar with the identities of the interviewers, provided the following information: IVINS has documentation back to approximately 1992 of transfers he made of the Ames strain of Bacillus anthracis (Ba). He does not~have documents regarding transfers made prior to 1992. IVINS sent Ames to Dugway Proving Ground (hereinafter referred to as Dugway) in 1992 and in 199% The 1997 shipment was to provide Dugway with the material to produce spores for USAMRIID to use in aerosol challenge studies. It was probably not noted in IVINS laboratory notebooks from which supply (flask, vial, or isolate) of Ames IVINS or his coworkers took the material to be shipped to the various external laboratories. IVINS pointed out on the forms he provided to the agents during this interview that he noted on the Dugway shipment and on the shipment_of Ames to [__]that he use as the source of the Ames he shipped. L___lis aL ijat Battelle (BMI) who requested some of IVINS spores. [_s|but is the spores The Ames sent to the Defense Research Establishment at Suffield _(DERS) in Canada was probably Ames grown by IVINS or his coworkers, but he cannot recall what the source of the material photograph of the Ames vial gent to IVINS of DRES, the writing on the vial is that of She may have prepared the shipment of Ames for DRES* They uld have used Dugway spores or frozen vegetative material, but IVINS does not recall. USAMRIID now keeps documentation of internal transfers of select agents, but they did not in prior years. . . b6 Investigation on 05/07/04 at_ Frederick, Maryland pic 7 bef Bo File # 279A-WF-222936 -USADEEEED-- 3a Date dictated N/A SS by SA * This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. 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. ae _ : \ Wvtes302 x a