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s © ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED FD-302 (Rev. 10-6-95) DATE L2-09-2005 BY 60324 C BAWUSRS/¥CPF -|- FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Date of transcrigtion 01/04/2006 Social Security Account. on December 5" 2005, at| | place of employment, Battelle, 505 King Avenue,/Columbus, Ohio, b Special Agents (SAs) Also present/during the interview was Assistant General Counsel, Battelle. After being adviged of the identities of the intetviewing Agents and the purpose of the interview, was presented with an AMERITHRAX; Major Cage-184 Non-disclosure Agreement (NDA). After reviewing the document, [—__] signed the NDA. At this point,[_]provided the following information: [indicated that over the past few years scientists at Battelle have isolated two different contaminants from Bacillus Dé anthracis (Ba) spore preparations. One contaminant was determined bIC to be Bacillus pumilus and the other was determined to be Bacillus subtilis. These determinations were made using a 24 hour API strip.[[ _|believes that both of these contaminates were purified from the Ba and may still exist as frozen stocks at Battelle's Building. stated that In the course of reviewing documentation related to Battelle's Ba Ames spore preparations labeled BAA177 at Battelle's facility located at 1425 State Routé 142, West Jefferson, Ohio, []not iced a discrepancy betwg¢en Battelle's documentation and an e-mail sent from[ to Dr. BRUCE IVINS at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Inffectious Diseases (USAMRIID). Battelle's "Etiologic Agent ReceApt and Inventory Information Sheet," for sample BAA177_ indicdtes that the sample was depleted on 5/6/04. An e-mail from[__ to IVINS suggests that Battelle was working with BA177 in January of 2005. At approximately 3:30pm on December 19, 2005,[__jwas asked about this discrepancy. SA was not_present during this portion of the interview. stated that iewed BAA177 and BA178 as being from a single samp e{ consi them to be from the same sample because IVINS indicated to that they were the same | ___Pelieves that both BAAI77 and BAA178 were contaminated despite ac fact that Battelle never actually determined if BAA177 was contaminated and assumed BAA177 was contaminated because BAA178 was shown to be contaminated. G oe DL Investigation on 12/19/2005 at Columbus, Ohio- File # 279A-WF-222936-BATTELLE ~ | O 7 Date dictated N/A - SA b6 by __ SA b7c 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.