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Capitol Hill anthrax not from CIA lab - CIA
CIA laboratories were not the source of the deadly anthrax bacteria mailed to Capitol Hill, a US Central Intelligence Agency spokesman has said.
CIA laboratories were not the source of the deadly anthrax bacteria mailed to Capitol Hill, a US Central Intelligence Agency spokesman has said.
''The anthrax contained in the letters under investigation absolutely did not come from CIA labs,'' the spokesman, Mark Mansfield, said in response to a report that investigators were focusing on whether spores used in the anthrax attacks may have come from a domestic bio-weapons research program, including one conducted by the CIA.
The Washington Post reported on Sunday that genetic tests of the spores in the anthrax-laced letters mailed to Capitol Hill were identical to stocks maintained by a US army research program at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
Anthrax-contaminated letters, postmarked from Trenton, New Jersey on Oct. 9 were mailed to US senate majority leader Tom Daschle and to Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat. Anthrax letters also were sent to three media outlets following the September 11 attacks on the United States. Five people have died and 13 have been infected with anthrax since the beginning of October.
The Washington Post said the FBI investigation into the anthrax attacks was increasingly focusing on whether US government bio-weapons research programs may have been the source of the deadly bacteria. The report quoted one source as saying the FBI was focusing on a contractor that worked for the CIA.
Bureau Report
''The anthrax contained in the letters under investigation absolutely did not come from CIA labs,'' the spokesman, Mark Mansfield, said in response to a report that investigators were focusing on whether spores used in the anthrax attacks may have come from a domestic bio-weapons research program, including one conducted by the CIA.
The Washington Post reported on Sunday that genetic tests of the spores in the anthrax-laced letters mailed to Capitol Hill were identical to stocks maintained by a US army research program at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
Anthrax-contaminated letters, postmarked from Trenton, New Jersey on Oct. 9 were mailed to US senate majority leader Tom Daschle and to Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat. Anthrax letters also were sent to three media outlets following the September 11 attacks on the United States. Five people have died and 13 have been infected with anthrax since the beginning of October.
The Washington Post said the FBI investigation into the anthrax attacks was increasingly focusing on whether US government bio-weapons research programs may have been the source of the deadly bacteria. The report quoted one source as saying the FBI was focusing on a contractor that worked for the CIA.
Bureau Report