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Tabloid Photos of Elvis, Others to be Decontaminated
Photographs from the former Florida headquarters of tabloid publisher American Media Inc. will be decontaminated as workers finish cleaning the first building struck by the 2001 anthrax mailing, the Associated Press reported today (see GSN, Dec. 9, 2004). Sun Photo Editor Bob Stevens was one of five people killed following exposure to anthrax in 2001, and the AMI office building has been shuttered since then. Real estate investor David Rustine bought the building in 2003, according to AP. Rustine planned to destroy 4.5 million pictures — including a photo of Elvis Presley in his coffin — along with 305,000 pounds of other materials that have all been kept in sealed storage since the attacks. Several photographers objected, and Rustine agreed to decontaminate the items, AP reported. This effort will be 20 times larger than decontaminating documents from Capitol Hill following the anthrax mailings to Washington, said John Mason, president and CEO of contractor Bio-ONE. “We will be applying everything we have learned to enable us to decontaminate half a million documents a day,” Mason said. Rustine will maintain control of the cleansed photographs and other items, according to AP. Bio-ONE plans to use the building for its crisis management venture, but first must prove to local and federal agencies that it is fully cleansed (Associated Press/Miami Herald, March 24).
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