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Anthrax: FBI Focuses on USAMRIID as Source of Spores Sources familiar with the FBI’s “Amerithrax” investigation into last fall’s anthrax attacks have said the bureau is exploring the idea that the spores used in the attacks were grown inside the U.S. Army’s biological weapons defense research facility at Fort Detrick, Md., and then later removed for further processing, the Chicago Tribune reported today (see GSN, May 21). A former government scientist who has been questioned by the FBI has said the agents’ questions dealt with how someone with access to the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases could carry out such a plan. The FBI agents, however, did not say whether such an incident had occurred. “They asked me: If I wanted to grow something I wasn’t supposed to, would there be somebody asking me about it and could I have taken it out of the lab?” said the scientist. “I told them no one checked, and it was far easier to get something out of Fort Detrick than into it” (Altimari/Dolan, Chicago Tribune, June 13).
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