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To: Washington Field From: Washington Field Re: 279A-WF-222936-USAMRIID, 09/14/2004 has reviewed the hard copy log of electron aagt e paaedaad sey pue auesead aya o? g8et Agnr woag Adoasoaeee of everything that meets the description of Ames spore. preparations. [has also included in list samples that could meet this description, for which the submitting b6 investigator did not provide enough information. b7C stated in e-mail that blood/tissues from. animals infected with various strains of B. anthracis were. excluded. SA asked if the Ames strain was used to infect these animals. Those present at the meetinq did not know, but stated they would find out from. stated in [e-mail that anything with. name would have originated from stated that TEM sample was a special. project for the Defense Nuclear Agency and that the micrographs b2 were requested for of Kaman Science Corporation b7F and were to be used for briefings and to assist in the determination of precise spore sizes. SA advised that the FBI does want these items. SA advised that the FBi does not want SEM b6 "stubs" for Ames powder which was submitted by the FBI for b7C analysis. questioned whether the FBI wanted TEM and SEM negatives.. (After the meeting SA asked SA AMX-2, whether the negatives were needed. SA hdwised hat the negatives were not needed. SA advised telephonically on 09/10/2004 that the negatives were not required.) asked what the procedure has been for. the production of personnel records for FBI review. SA advised that. previously,. who is no longer employed. b6 by USAMRIID, wOuld call SA when had pulled the b7C requested records. In a timely fashion, FBI Agents and Postal make copies of any pages they found of interest. advised that this process can continue. advised that would now handle Issues related to the UsAmRIID personnel files, and would contact SA when the files were ready. Discussion ensued regarding the FBI request for laboratory notes and computer files regarding Ames research and Ames spore production. Bruce Ivins had forwarded an e-mail to 2