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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 SECRET/NOFORN 2