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Amerithrax — Part 20
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SECRET/NOFORN
To:
Washington Field From: Washington Field
{U)
Re:
(S)
279A-wF-222936-USAMRIID, 08/18/2008
conduct comprehensive interviews at foreign Universities and
entities handling virulent Bacillus anthracis or possessing the
capabilities to handle virulent Bacillus anthracis (279A-wF
222936-IT, Serial 12).
b6
b7C
b7D
(U)
(8/NF) While numerous domestic and foreign.
institutions and entities have been identified as possessing the
Ames strain of Bacillus anthracis, investigative efforts to date.
have identified one domestic institution, the United States Army
Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (UsAMRiD).
b7D
scrutiny.
UsAMRIID has been identified as being one such U.s..
repository for the Ames strain of Bacillus anthracis.
Between
1995 and 200l, twenty-one foreign nationals from the.
have been identified as visiting UsAMRIID.
In order to
determine if the.
visitors had access to the Bacteriology
Division containment suites housing the Ames strain of Bacillus
anthracis the investigation took a tripartite approach to the
matter: (1) Exhaustive database queries from within the FBI and
outside the FBI were conducted to determine if any of the 21.
individuals had any International Terrorism (IT) or Foreign
Counterintelligence (FcI) nexus, (2) their UsAmRIID point of
contacts (pocs) were throughly interviewed and/or investigated,
and (3) the
was interviewed, if.
warranted.
(s) The database queries referenced supra were
(U)-
conducted first and have been documented under a separate heading.
(279A-wF-222936-LeAD, Serial 753).
(U)
8
The reauests to visit usAmRIID by these 21 foreign.
nationals
from the
can be directly related to.
seven (7)
USAMRIID POCS.
b6
b7C
b7D
Through interview(s).
and investigation it was
determined that
and
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