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Posted by DXer on March 11, 2011
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Posted by DXer on March 11, 2011
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Posted by DXer on February 22, 2011
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CASE CLOSED is a novel about the FBI’s failed investigation
of the 2001 anthrax attacks
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* CASE CLOSED – opening scene … the DIA re-investigates the FBI’s failed case
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Posted by DXer on March 2, 2010
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The New York Times says the FBI’s anthrax case has “too many loose ends.” Find out where some of those looses ends might have originated in my novel CASE CLOSED. Sure it’s fiction, but many readers, including a highly respected member of the U.S. Intelligence Community, think my premise is actually “quite plausible.”
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From Anonymous Scientist …
Analysis of samples from REDACTED … Date analyzed – 24 October, 2001 … Date of report – 25 Ocxtober, 2001
Samples:
1. VIII-B 21 June 95 – Dried BT powder – 0.01322g
2. VII-B Spray drier BT – 0.01722g
3. I-B Dried Powder – 0.00470g
4. IX-B Spray dried BT – 0.01118g
5. VI-B Dried powder from fermentor run – 0.00659g
6. V-B 21 June 95 – Dried powder from spray drier – 0.00639g
7. IV-B Bentonite feed stock – 0.00865g
I received the REDACTED samples (in small cryotubes in a ziplock bag) from REDACTED on the afternoon of 24 October, 2001. The tubes were weighed and estimated to contain about REDACTED of material each. To each tube REDACTED of sterile water for injenction was added to the material. After thorough mixing, the material was added to a second tube. The original tube was disinfected with bleach, dried and weighed. The net weight of the granular material was then determined and listed above. Ten fold dilutions of the suspensions were plated out onto TSA, then incubated overnight. Plate counts were made and the following concentrations were determined for the material.
Samples:
1. VIII-B 21 June 95 – Dried BT powder … 1.1×10^9 cfu per gram
2. VII-B Spray drier BT … 2.2×10^10 cfu per gram
3. I-B Dried Powder … 1.0×10^7 cfu per gram
4. IX-B Spray dried BT … 9.5×10^9 cfu per gram
5. VI-B Dried powder from fermentor run … 1.3×10^10 cfu per gram
6. V-B 21 June 95 – Dried powder from spray drier … 5.0×10^9 cfu per gram
7. IV-B Bentonite feed stock – 0.00865g … no growth seen (<1.2×10^5 cfu per gram)
Visual inspection of suspensions of the material under phase contrast microscopy demonstrated very poor preparations of spores. The preparations were all highly granular and did not easily go into suspension.
If these are preparations of bacterial spores they are all very poor preparations. The CFU per gram are very low. This preparation is less pure than the SPS02.88.01 preparation [Daschle powder] preparation examined on October 23, 2001 which had a count of 1.3X10^11 CFU per gram. This preparation is much less pure than the SPS02.57.03 [Daschle powder] preparation examined on October 17, 2001, which had a count of 2.1×10^12 per gram.
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