anthrax - The Black Vault https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive Discover the Truth Wed, 04 Mar 2015 18:02:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-siteicon-2-150x150.jpg anthrax - The Black Vault https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive 32 32 87123917 Amerithrax Investigation (Anthrax Attacks via U.S. Postal Mail) https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/amerithrax-investigation-anthrax-attacks-via-u-s-postal-mail/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amerithrax-investigation-anthrax-attacks-via-u-s-postal-mail Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:39:20 +0000 http://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/?p=1157 Soon after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, letters laced with anthrax began appearing in the U.S. mail. Five Americans were killed and 17 were sickened in what became the worst biological attacks in U.S. history. The ensuing investigation by the FBI and its partners—code-named “Amerithrax”—has been one of the largest and most complex in the [...]

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]]> Soon after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, letters laced with anthrax began appearing in the U.S. mail. Five Americans were killed and 17 were sickened in what became the worst biological attacks in U.S. history.

The ensuing investigation by the FBI and its partners—code-named “Amerithrax”—has been one of the largest and most complex in the history of law enforcement.

In August 2008, Department of Justice and FBI officials announced a breakthrough in the case and released documents and information showing that charges were about to be brought against Dr. Bruce Ivins, who took his own life before those charges could be filed. On February 19, 2010, the Justice Department, the FBI, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service formally concluded the investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks.

The Amerithrax Task Force—which consisted of roughly 25 to 30 full-time investigators from the FBI, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and other law enforcement agencies, as well as federal prosecutors from the District of Columbia and the Justice Department’s Counterterrorism Section—expended hundreds of thousands of investigator work hours on this case. Their efforts involved more than 10,000 witness interviews on six different continents, the execution of 80 searches, and the recovery of more than 6,000 items of potential evidence during the course of the investigation. The case involved the issuance of more than 5,750 grand jury subpoenas and the collection of 5,730 environmental samples from 60 site locations. In addition, new scientific methods were developed that ultimately led to the break in the case—methods that could have a far-reaching impact on future investigations.

This interim release of FBI files concerning the investigation consists of a total of 2,720 pages and 30 separate files. Additional releases will be made when the files have been processed under the guidelines of the Freedom of Information Act/Privacy.

As a supplement to this release, the U.S. Department of Justice has posted an Investigative Summary on its website at www.usdoj.gov.

279A-WF-222936- BEI (Bruce E. Ivins) Sections (1,282 pages)

The seven sections identified as BEI (Dr. Bruce E. Ivins) are directly related to the investigative efforts and interviews involving Dr. Ivins. The sections include a review of Dr. Ivins’ personnel file, e-mails, police reports, and analysis of samples.

279A-WF-222936-USAMRIID Sections (1,446 pages)

There are 22 sections listed as USAMRIID (United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases), which pertain to investigative efforts and interviews related to USAMRIID and its personnel.

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]]> 1157 Anthrax Threat, Savannah River Site, Aiken, S.C. https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/anthrax-threat-savannah-river-site-aiken-s-c/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=anthrax-threat-savannah-river-site-aiken-s-c Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:30:42 +0000 http://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/?p=1151 The Savannah River Site (SRS) is a nuclear reservation in the United States in the state of South Carolina, located on land in Aiken, Allendale and Barnwell Counties adjacent to the Savannah River, 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Augusta, Georgia. The site was built during the 1950s to refine nuclear materials for deployment in [...]

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]]> The Savannah River Site (SRS) is a nuclear reservation in the United States in the state of South Carolina, located on land in Aiken, Allendale and Barnwell Counties adjacent to the Savannah River, 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Augusta, Georgia. The site was built during the 1950s to refine nuclear materials for deployment in nuclear weapons. It covers 310 square miles (800 km2) and employs more than 10,000 people.

In 2005, there was an Anthrax hoax at the facility.  Below, you will find documents relating to the incident.

Anthrax Threat, Savannah River Site, Aiken, S.C. [13 Pages, 724kb]

Documents from the Department of Energy/Inspector General (DOE/IG) [105 Pages, 1.69MB]

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]]> 1151 Anthrax https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/anthrax/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=anthrax Mon, 23 Feb 2015 17:39:34 +0000 http://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/?p=237 “Anthrax was first tested as a biological warfare agent by Unit 731 of the Japanese Kwantung Army in Manchuria during the 1930s; some of this testing involved intentional infection of prisoners of war, thousands of whom died. Anthrax, designated at the time as Agent N, was also investigated by the allies in the 1940s. The [...]

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]]> “Anthrax was first tested as a biological warfare agent by Unit 731 of the Japanese Kwantung Army in Manchuria during the 1930s; some of this testing involved intentional infection of prisoners of war, thousands of whom died. Anthrax, designated at the time as Agent N, was also investigated by the allies in the 1940s. The British army tested experimental anthrax weapons on Gruinard Island, off the northwest coast of Scotland, in 1943. Gruinard was burned over at least once, yet as of the late 1980s, it was still too heavily contaminated with spores to allow unprotected human access, indicating the hardiness of anthrax spores. Weaponized anthrax was part of the U.S. stockpile prior to its destruction in 1972.”

Office of the Secretary of Defense Proliferation: Threat and Response

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