[CPEO-MEF] BIOWEAPONS: Ft. Detrick (MD) missing bio samples

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Cold comfort


Katherine Heerbrandt
Frederick News-Post (MD)
April 22, 2009
	

The Criminal Investigation Division at Fort Meade has been investigating 
USAMRIID at Fort Detrick since at least early February. Meade's CID 
pursues investigations of serious crimes and sensitive subjects of 
concern to the Army at regional bases like Detrick, which has no 
internal investigative arm.

A News-Post story in February reported that USAMRIID was shutting down 
most of its bioresearch while it tried to match its inventory to its 
records, citing an "overage" of BSAT, biological select agents and toxins.

Meade's CID, however, isn't concerned with overstock. Instead, agents 
are looking for what may have gone missing between 1987 and 2008.

...

For the entire column, see
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/opinion/display_columnist.htm?StoryID=89276

See also
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=89293

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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