US Nazis and Biological Warfare Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit source - Nizkor English Service [mailto:nizkoreng@derechos.org] It is not especially difficult to obtain deadly microbes in today's microbiological US market, as members of the Aryan Nation did in 1995 and 1998. Nizkor Int. Human Rights Team Derechos Human Rights Serpaj Europe Information 20Oct01 Part I: DOCUMENTARY DOSSIER ON THE ANTECEDENTS OF THE ATTACKS WITH BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS IN THE U.S. Note from the Nizkor Team : Due to the seriousness and extent of so called "Biological Warfare" (BW), we feel that it is important to make a documentary and bibliographical reconstruction of its history in the United States. It is surprising to note that from at least as far back as 1999, specialists in this field have considered that groups likely to use biological terrorism include those connected to white supremacy groups, such as William Pierce's National Alliance or Aryan Nation, along with those responsible for the 1993 attack on the WTC, Ramzi Yousef, and also Osama bin Laden. [see "The Prospect of Domestic Bioterrorism", By Jessica Stern, Council on Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C., USA. Jul/Aug 1999 http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no4/pdf/stern.pdf where it is stated that "A small but growing number of domestic terrorists could attempt to use biological weapons in the belief that doing so would advance their goals. The most likely are religious and extreme right-wing groups and groups seeking revenge who view secular rulers and the law they uphold as illegitimate. They are unconstrained by fear of government or public backlash, since their actions are carried out to please God and themselves, not to impress a secular constituency. Frequently, they do not claim credit for their attacks since their ultimate objective is to create so much fear and chaos that the government's legitimacy is destroyed. Their victims are often viewed as subhuman since they are outside the group's religion or race". See also Aryan National Alliance (ex Aryan Nations) http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/orgs/american/aryan-nations/ ] We believe that the United States parliament should establish an investigating committee not just into the attacks of September 11, but also into white-supremacist (and national-socialist) groups in the United States in relation with domestic terrorism. The bombings - of New York's World Trade Center in 1993, and in Oklahoma City two years later - proved that domestic terrorism is a reality. Larry Wayne Harris, a member of the white supremacist group Aryan Nation and author of a manual for do-it-yourself biological warfare, said in an interview: "My view of the future is that we are facing now a biological apocalypse. It is coming. The Bible says that it is coming". [see http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/plague/etc/script.html and related information below.] We support the demands made by those who have asked the US Congress to establish "a panel with subpoena powers to fully investigate the Sept. 11 attacks", as Professor Boyle, a renowned expert on international law and human rights, who authored the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, has done. Antonia Macias Nizkor English Service EU, October 19, 2001. IT IS NOT VERY DIFFICULT TO OBTAIN DEADLY MICROBES IN TODAY'S GLOBAL MICROBIOLOGICAL MARKETPLACE, AS A MICROBIOLOGIST AFFILIATED WITH THE WHITE-SUPREMACIST GROUP ‘ARYAN NATION', LARRY WAYNE HARRIS, DID IN 1995 AND 1998. Deadly microbes, including the bacteria that cause anthrax, aren't especially difficult to obtain in today's global microbiological marketplace. Some can be ordered by phone, fax or e-mail and arrive in the mail a few days later. Anyone seeking such bugs inside the United States, however, faces hurdles that didn't exist five years ago, thanks largely to the antics of former Ohio State University student Larry Wayne Harris. On May 4, 1995, Harris sent a letter with a fake laboratory letterhead to the American Type Culture Collection, the world's largest distributor of frozen germs, then in Rockville, Md. The collection, which subsequently moved to Manassas, Va., and is known to scientists as ATCC, keeps a frozen menagerie of bacteria, viruses and DNA snippets for distribution to university scientists and other researchers. Harris, who turned out to be affiliated with the white-supremacist group Aryan Nation, ordered three vials of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague. A week later, police officers, acting on a tip and armed with a search warrant, found the vials in the glove box of Harris' Subaru. Harris was convicted of wire fraud. Congress, concerned that luck had played too big a role in the government's discovery of Harris' purchase (and hearing testimony that Iraq had obtained starter cultures for its biowarfare arsenal from ATCC) demanded the Department of Health and Human Services tighten its regulation of culture collections. Today, federal law significantly limits U.S. culture collections in their ability to distribute any of the 24 infectious microbes and 12 toxins that have been designated by federal officials as possible bioterrorism agents, including Bacillus anthracis, the bacterium that causes anthrax. Anyone wishing to receive such agents must register with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Registrants must prove they have a legitimate use for such agents, provide proper signatures with every order and open their labs to periodic safety and security inspections. Individual violators can be fined $250,000 or jailed for one year. Experts said the system is working well. After the Harris incident, "ATCC got religion," said Amy Smithson, director of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Project at the Henry L. Stimson Center in Washington, D.C. However, Smithson said, "there are more than 500 culture collections around the world, and the regulations on shipments of dangerous human pathogens have not been tightened everywhere. That's something that has to be dealt with right away." The World Federation for Culture Collections has a registry of 473 collections of microbes in 62 countries. As of Thursday, 46 listed B. anthracis as being available to scientists for sale, exchange or for free. The regulations or procedures governing who can get a dangerous microbe differ from country to country. But culture collections are not the only way to obtain lethal microbes. B. anthracis, for example, lives in the soil and can be found in livestock. Harris, for instance, claimed to have grown large amounts of the anthrax bacteria from a starter culture he made from soil from a site in Ohio where anthrax-infected cattle had been buried decades earlier. However, strains found in nature vary considerably in their virulence and in their ability to persevere in the presence of antibiotics. A terrorist would almost certainly have to make many isolation efforts before finding a strain that was as potent as desired, and perhaps many more to find a drug-resistant strain. Beyond official culture collections and Mother Nature, there's a third source of microbes that's relatively accessible and offers some assurance of virulence: the countless government and university research labs where these bugs are studied and, in many cases, shared among researchers. Hundreds of such strains exist, and security is typically lax in academic environments. One such strain of B. anthracis, known as the Ames strain because it was first isolated decades ago from an animal at Iowa State University in Ames, has been theorized by some as a likely perpetrator of the Florida cases, based on preliminary genetic testing. Like many other strains, including the still-unidentified strain that killed photo editor Bob Stevens in Florida, it is virulent but easily killed with standard antibiotics. The CDC hadn't released any official word about DNA fingerprinting tests it hopes will identify the microbes' origins. But if the Florida bug is indeed a member of the Ames strain, it won't add much to the investigation. So many labs around the world use it, it would be impossible to tell from which corner of the globe the deadly bug was obtained. [Source: By Rick Weiss, Washington Post Staff Writer - The Washington Post - October 14, 2001;] ------------------------------------------------ ii) LACK OF ANTHRAX DATABASE: DEBATE ON REGISTRATION MEASURES. WASHINGTON -- Law enforcement officials hunting for the source of anthrax that has turned up in U.S. mailboxes lack an important tool that might help solve the mystery, some terrorism and public health experts say: a full list of the laboratories that keep anthrax on hand. The Clinton administration asked Congress in 1999 to require U.S. laboratories to list all their dangerous biological agents, including anthrax, with the federal government. But the proposal failed amid fears that it would inhibit medical research. Still, a pathogen database might help authorities determine the possible source of anthrax or other materials used in bioterrorism, some public health specialists say. "Absolutely, it would be very useful," said Dorothy Preslar of the Federation of American Scientists, who has testified on the issue before Congress. "If you had a map of everybody's holdings, it would be easier to say this anthrax came from that particular lab." Jessica Stern, a lecturer on terrorism at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, said that "there are trade-offs in creating a database, but I think it's fair to say that this is a tool that law enforcement is lacking." Among the downsides, she said, are that a database might discourage scientists from conducting useful research, and could give terrorists a road map to lethal materials. Research, commercial or veterinary laboratories are only some of the possible sources of anthrax in the recent cases. At least a dozen nations are thought to have offensive biological weapons programs, and one might have intentionally or inadvertently been the source of the anthrax. In addition, a skilled person could dig anthrax spores from the ground or culture the bacteria from a sick animal. In the mid-1990s, the Oklahoma City bombing and a series of bioterrorism scares prompted lawmakers and the Clinton administration to propose changes to the laws on the possession of pathogens. 1995 CASE INVOLVED BUBONIC PLAGUE. In part, officials were reacting to the 1995 case of Larry Wayne Harris, a microbiologist linked to white supremacist groups who had ordered, from a legitimate company, the bacteria that causes bubonic plague. Because no law barred Harris from possessing the material, he was charged only with mail fraud. The case prompted Congress to order health officials to toughen the rules on dangerous pathogens. In 1996, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began requiring labs to seek permission every time they transferred or received certain bacteria, viruses or toxins. But it was not until 1998, when the agency waived a registration fee, that labs substantially complied with the regulation, Preslar said. This gives the government a "fairly good" list of the movement of dangerous biological materials to and from U.S. labs over the last three years, Preslar said. Dr. Ronald Atlas, dean of the University of Louisville graduate school and president-elect of the American Society for Microbiology, said the CDC transfer records would not be a complete inventory of the pathogens in U.S. laboratory freezers and petri dishes. "There would still be labs you would not identify," he said, because they may have obtained materials before the CDC transfer rules came into effect. Atlas also disputed the usefulness of such a list. Some strains of anthrax are found in hundreds of labs, he said, and labs are only one possible source of the toxin. "An inventory is not going to tell me who has this and who is missing it. Nor is it going to tell me whether it came from a foreign country. I won't know any more by having an inventory or not," he said. But Preslar said that, at the least, investigators could question labs known to hold a bacterium or virus that turned up in a bioterrorism scare. "They could ask, 'Have there been any unauthorized visitors? Has your security failed in the last six months?' " she said. In 1999, the Clinton administration proposed a further tightening of the lab rules. It wanted labs to register all pathogens and other dangerous agents with the federal government. The proposal did not gain momentum because bioterrorism was not perceived as a major problem, said one former senior Justice Department official, who did not want to be identified because he works for private clients. "People said to us, 'We've had a building blow up in Oklahoma City, and how would this help us with that?' " he said. The registration measure was one of several proposed by Clinton. Others would have made it a crime to possess certain biological agents without a legitimate peaceful purpose. Existing law requires prosecutors to prove someone intended to use the materials to do harm. Clinton administration officials argued that the measure would have given law officers more power to stop terrorist groups in possession of lethal agents. Lawmakers are deciding whether to add a biological agent provision to the current anti-terrorism bill. The Senate has voted to bar the possession of dangerous biological agents for reasons "not reasonably justified" for research or other purposes. Its bill must be reconciled with the House, which did not include such restrictions. [Source: By Aaron Zitner, Times Staff Writer- Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.; October 17, 2001; Times staff writers Megan Garvey and Alan C. Miller contributed to this report] ------------------------------------------------- iii) JUDGE DROPS BIOLOGICAL WEAPON CHARGES AGAINST MEN IN ANTHRAX CASE. (Feb, 1998). LAS VEGAS (AP) - Two men arrested in an anthrax scare were cleared Monday of all biological weapon charges, but one still faced new allegations of violating his probation. Federal prosecutors withdrew felony charges against William Leavitt Jr. and Larry Wayne Harris, who each had faced counts of conspiracy to possess and possessing a biological material for use as a weapon. "It's over. It's done. I want to get on with my life," Leavitt, 47, told a news conference before entering the downtown federal court building. The dismissal order for both men was signed by Magistrate Judge Roger L. Hunt. "I believe that the requested dismissal of the complaint is in the best interests of justice," Assistant U.S. Attorney L.J. O'Neale stated in a paper attached to the dismissal order. Harris' attorney, Michael Kennedy, said, "He feels elated." Leavitt, who has no criminal record, was a free man. But Harris, 46, remained jailed on a new charge filed in Ohio that he violated terms of his probation for a 1995 conviction on illegally ordering bubonic plague bacteria by mail. Harris was scheduled to return to federal court in Las Vegas on Tuesday for a hearing on the new charges. It was unknown whether prosecutors would file reduced charges against Harris, as an FBI agent in Ohio had said would probably be done. "I can't read their minds, but it doesn't sound like what a U.S. attorney would do," Kennedy said. Neither the defense attorney for Leavitt nor Harris said they believed the FBI overreacted given the evidence agents thought they had. "I would be the last person to say there should be anything cast upon them," said Kennedy. "I don't think they overreacted. ... They had to act quickly." Harris was charged with probation violations earlier Monday in Columbus, Ohio. The FBI there had also said that prosecutors in Nevada planned to reduce the charges against Harris to "threatening" to use such a weapon rather than actually possessing one. Leavitt apologized to everybody from his Mormon Church to the U.S. government, but insisted his actions were motivated by his desire to help others. "It was always my desire, and has been and continues to be, to help mankind,"Leavitt said. He portrayed Harris as a "consultant" and denied knowing about Harris' past with biological agents and reputed white supremacist beliefs. Leavitt said he did know Harris was on probation for wire fraud but didn't know the details. Leavitt said he didn't remember telling anyone he possessed military grade anthrax, as an FBI affidavit quoted him as saying. "I just do not recollect," he said. Harris and Leavitt, of Logandale, Nev., were arrested last week in suburban Henderson, Nev., and charged with conspiracy to possess and possessing a biological material for use as a weapon. The case sent a shudder across the nation. But weekend tests showed the material contained in glass vials seized from the men was actually a harmless anthrax vaccine for animals. Additional test results, released Monday, showed that material seized from Harris' Ohio home also was a safe vaccine. Leavitt was released from jail over the weekend on his own recognizance - although the FBI continued to search his home. Harris remained in jail. An FBI agent said in an affidavit filed in Ohio that the charges against Harris in the Nevada case probably would be reduced. "I have reason to believe that the U.S. Attorney's Office in Las Vegas is amending its complaint to charge Larry Wayne Harris with threatening to possess a biological agent for use as a weapon," said the affidavit by Special Agent David A. Stout. This affidavit toned down the FBI account of Harris' alleged threat. The Ohio FBI affidavit said that last week at a Las Vegas hotel Harris allegedly held up a vial and told a man that "a little vial like that could wipe out the city." In contrast, the FBI affidavit filed in Las Vegas last Thursday quoted Harris as saying the actual vial Harris held, not one like it, had enough anthrax to wipe out the city. Whatever the exact nature of the alleged threat, it provided one reason for federal authorities in Ohio to charge Harris on Monday with violating his probation for his 1995 conviction in that state on charges he illegally obtained the bubonic plague bacteria through the mail. "If proven, this (threat) would be an additional federal crime committed by Mr. Harris in violation of the general condition of his probation in that he was ordered ... not to commit another federal, state or local crime," federal prosecutors in Ohio said in a statement. Harris also was accused of violating probation terms prohibiting him from doing any bacteria studies on his own. And he allegedly misrepresented himself in an unrelated case as being associated with the CIA. Harris faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison if convicted of the alleged probation violations. The anthrax case linked two unlikely men - Harris, a reputed white supremacist, and Leavitt, a former Mormon bishop and civic leader - with an FBI informant whose credibility has been attacked by Leavitt's lawyers. Leavitt's defense has contended that Leavitt and Harris were not terrorists, but scientists planning to use the anthrax vaccine to test an unorthodox disease-killing machine from the man who tipped off the FBI. That informant, Ronald Rockwell, has said he turned in Leavitt and Harris last week when Leavitt claimed to possess a "military grade" anthrax bacteria, which could kill thousands of people. Leavitt's attorneys said Rockwell is a con artist who double-crossed the two men when the deal to buy the machine turned sour. Rockwell has two felony convictions for extortion. Court files show that since 1985 he has been involved in numerous lawsuits, both as a plaintiff and defendant. [Source: Las Vegas Sun - February 23, 1998] Part II: i) LARRY WAYNE HARRIS AND WILLIAM LEAVITT HAD EIGHT TO 10 FLIGHT BAGS FULL OF DEADLY ''MILITARY GRADE'' ANTHRAX. (AP) Larry Wayne Harris and William Leavitt had eight to 10 flight bags full of deadly ''military grade'' anthrax in the trunk of a beige Mercedes - and a plan to unleash it, an informant told the FBI in the hours before their arrest late Wednesday. In an affidavit obtained Thursday by the Associated Press, the FBI says the informant called Wednesday to say he was a research scientist and had been contacted by Harris, of Lancaster, Ohio, and Leavitt, of Las Vegas. The two asked him to use some of his equipment to test vials of the bacterium Bacillus anthracis that causes anthrax. Over the next 12 hours, the informant kept in touch with the FBI and at least one phone call was tapped. The document outlined a meeting of Harris and Leavitt with another man at the Gold Coast Hotel in Nevada. ''Harris had shown him what appeared to be a vial, which was wrapped in cardboard and stated that it contained anthrax,'' the affidavit said. ''Harris held the vial in his hand and further stated that there was enough there to 'wipe out the city.''' The FBI said the pair was trying to arrange to buy the informant's testing equipment for $2 million up front and another $18 million later. In background information in the affidavit, the FBI said that last summer Harris described plans for a New York attack. ''Harris told a group of plans to place a 'globe' of bubonic plague toxins in a New York subway station, where it would be broken by a passing subway train, causing hundreds of thou sands of deaths. Harris stated that the Iraqis would be blamed for that event.'' The group was not identified and the plans were not detailed further in the affidavit. The affidavit added: ''Harris had stated that the New York subway attack would ruin the economy and take the military by surprise.'' The affidavit said the informant - who was neither identified nor charged - first met Harris at a Denver science convention last August, and met Leavitt about six weeks ago. The three were working on a project to test a device to supposedly ''deactivate'' viruses and bacteria, the affidavit says. The men also had contacted the source ''some time ago'' about testing E. coli and Bacillus subtilis bacteria, and on Tuesday told the source they had other organisms to test, including Bacillus licheniformis and Bacillus anthracis. The FBI confirmed the informant's claims to be a research scientist, specializing in cancer research. The informant had two felony convictions for conspiracy to commit extortion in the 1980s, but the FBI said there was no deal cut with him. [Source: The Cincinnati Post - 20Feb98] ------------------------------------------------------ ii) TEXT OF CRIMINAL COMPLAINT AS FILED AGAINST LARRY WAYNE HARRIS AND WILLIAM JOB LEAVITT, JR., FEBRUARY, 19, 1998. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEVADA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff vs. LARRY WAYNE E HARRIS, WILLIAM JOB LEAVITT, Jr., Defendants Case No. MAG-98-2042-M-RLH CRIMINAL COMPLAINT Violations: Title 18, United States Code, Section 175 - Conspiracy to Possess Biological Agent for Use as a Weapon: Title 18, United States Code, Section 175 - Possession of Biological Agent for Use as a Weapon: Title 18, United States Code, Section 2 - Aiding and Abetting. Before the United States Magistrate Judge, District of Nevada, the undersigned complainant, being duly sworn, states: COUNT 1 On or about February 18, 1998, within the State and Federal District of Nevada, LARRY WAYNE HARRIS, and WILLIAM JOB LEAVITT, Jr., defendants herein, knowingly conspired to possess a biological agent and toxin, to wit: anthrax and anthrax precursors, for use as a weapon, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 175. COUNT 2 On or about February 18, 1998, within the State and Federal District of Nevada, LARRY WAYNE HARRIS, and WILLIAM JOB LEAVITT, Jr., defendants herein, knowingly possessed a biological agent and toxin, to wit: anthrax and anthrax precursors, for use as a weapon, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 175 and Section 2. As and for probable cause, complaint states as follows: 1. I am a Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and am assigned investigate cases of domestic terrorism. 2. On February 18, 1998, a citizen-informant (hereafter "the source") telephoned the offices of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Las Vegas, Nevada, and stated that he was a research scientist who had been contacted by Larry Wayne Harris and William Leavitt, who wanted to use the source's equipment to test vials of Bacillus anthracis. According to the source, Harris and Levitt had the anthrax in the trunk of a Mercedes-Benz automobile. Harris and Levitt made arrangements to meet the source later on February 18, 1998, for the source to conduct the tests. The source agreed to cooperate with the FBI in the investigation of possible possession of biological warfare agents. 3. I have been informed and believe that anthrax is a virulent and deadly disease, spread to humans, among other methods, by airborne spores, and that inhalation of the spores is almost always fatal to an unvaccinated and untreated person. I have further been informed and believe that there are no valid commercial or industrial uses for anthrax bacteria, and that its most common use is as a bacteriological warfare agent. 4. The FBI investigated the background of the source and found that he is, indeed, a research scientist, specializing in cancer research. The source has two felony convictions for conspiracy to commit extortion in 1981 and 1982. The source is not a confidential informant, in that he is not "working off" any criminal charge, nor is he a known criminal being paid for information. It appears that his providing information to the FBI was done simply as a citizen performing his civic duty. 5. FBI investigation determined that Larry Wayne Harris, a resident of Ohio, is currently on probation after a 1995 felony conviction for wire fraud in fraudulently obtaining bubonic plague toxins. At his arrest in 1995, Harris was in possession of three vials of bubonic plague toxins, which he had in the glove compartment of his car. In the summer of 1997, Harris told a group of plans to place a "globe" of bubonic plague toxins in a New York subway station, where it would be broken by a passing subway train, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths. Harris stated that the Iraqis would be blamed for that event. Harris is, in fact, a licensed clinical and public health microbiologist, operating his own company in Lancaster, Ohio. 6. Harris is a self-admitted member of the Aryan Nations, and claims to have the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. Harris had stated that the New York subway attack would ruin the economy and take the military by surprise. 7. Leavitt reportedly owns a microbiological laboratory in Logandale, Nevada, and one in Frankfurt, Germany. Leavitt has no criminal record. 8. The source was debriefed in the afternoon of February 18, 1998, and stated that he had met Harris at a science convention in Denver, Colorado, in August, 1997. The source has only known Leavitt for six weeks. The source joined Harris and Leavitt in a project to test a device which is supposed to electronically deactivate viruses and bacteria. 9. The source stated that he met with Leavitt at approximately noon on February 18, 1998, and that Leavitt stated that he had "military grade" anthrax in flight bags in the trunk of his Mercedes-Benz automobile. That automobile, which is as described in paragraph 3, above, is registered to a Gary M. Gerwin, of Palm Springs, California. 10. The source explained that he had originally been contacted some time ago to test E. coli and Bacillus subtilis bacteria, and had then been told on approximately February 17, 1998, that Harris and Leavitt had other organisms to test as well. These organisms turned out to be Bacillus licheniformis, Bacillus Anthracis, and the above-mentioned military-grade anthrax to test as well. The source stated that only a Biolevel III laboratory should have those toxins. The source stated that Harris and Leavitt did not want him to test the organisms, but wanted to buy the source's equipment, for which they would pay $2,000,000 and another $18,000,000 later so that they might test the organisms. The source would not be present during testing. 11. The source stated that at his noon meeting with Leavitt, the source saw eight to ten black leather flight-bag type bags in the trunk of the Mercedes-Benz. The bags had felt-tip markings stating "Biological." At approximately 3:15 p.m. on February 18, 1998, Leavitt telephoned the source and set a meeting for 7:00 p.m. at a local restaurant, at which time the source was to deliver his testing equipment to Harris and Leavitt. This call was monitored by FBI agents. Leavitt stated that he had military grade anthrax in a vial. 12. At approximately 6:30 p.m. on February 18, 1998, FBI agents observed Leavitt and Harris leave Room 921 of the Gold Coast Hotel and Casino. Leavitt was carrying a white styrofoam cooler, which he placed into the Mercedes-Benz automobile. Leavitt and Harris were accompanied by a third, unidentified, man. At about 6:45 p.m., Leavitt and Harris left the hotel in the Mercedes-Benz; the unidentified man left in another automobile. 13. At about 7:06 p.m., Leavitt and Harris arrived at the restaurant where they had arranged to meet the source. As Leavitt and Harris were about to enter the restaurant, the source arrived in his vehicle, and a conversation took place outside the restaurant. Leavitt and Harris indicated that they wanted to do the testing as quickly as possible. 14. FBI agents then observed Leavitt and Harris drive to the office complex at 2501 Green Valley Parkway, Henderson, Nevada. Agents momentarily lost sight of Leavitt and Harris in the complex. Agents then observed a person (who could not be identified because of the distance and darkness) carrying a white cooler towards Building "D." When agents arrived at Building "D," they placed Leavitt and Harris under arrest when they left the office. Agents could see the cooler inside the office through the window. 15. FBI agents entered the office with the consent of the owner/occupant and recovered the cooler and 40 petrie dishes from a shelf near the cooler. The source had informed agents that he had seen Leavitt carry the cooler into the office, and then take two items out of the cooler; the source saw the latter from outside, through the office window.. 16. The unidentified man seen with Leavitt and Harris at the Gold Coast Hotel was subsequently identified and interviewed. That man stated that he had been with Leavitt and Harris at the Gold Coast Hotel. Harris had showed him what appeared to be a vial, which was wrapped in cardboard, and stated that it contained anthrax. Harris held the vial in his hand and further stated that there was enough there to "wipe out the city." 17. Because of the extreme hazard posed by the materials involved, the testing process is necessarily careful and slow. The Mercedes-Benz automobile has been sealed and transported to a safe area. FBI technical experts have stated that, based on their training and experience, some of the materials recovered from the office appears to be anthrax or anthrax precursors. Some of the material recovered is of nature such that its containers can only safely be opened under controlled laboratory conditions. John J. Hawken, Special Agent Federal Bureau of Investigation Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 19th day of February, 1998. ROGER L. HUNT UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE [Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal - 19Feb98. http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/news/packages/anthrax/newaff.html ] ---------------------------------------------------------- RELATED LINKS: 1) Interview with Larry Wayne Harris, by David E. Kaplan Senior Editor, U.S. News & World Report. September 2, 1997 http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/chemhar.htm 2) The Silence Before The Ambush Of Larry Wayne Harris. by Terry Stough. The American Resistance Movement, Press Release, 01Mar98 http://www.uhuh.com/reports/harris/silence.htm 3) SUN Profile: Harris' troubled past includes mail fraud, white supremacy. February 23, 1998 http://www.lasvegassun.com/dossier/crime/bio/harris.html 4) Anthrax suspects Larry Wayne Harris and William Job Leavitt profiled. Nando.net//The Associated Press - February 21, 1998 http://www.techserver.com/newsroom/ntn/nation/022198/nationt_14934_S1_nofram es.html 5) The Suspects: Larry Wayne Harris. Las Vegas Review-Journal. Friday, February 20, 1998 http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1998/Feb-20-Fri-1998/news/6996368.html 6) Follow-up to the detention of Larry Wayne Harris http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/news/packages/anthrax/ 7) Number 44. Wag the Germ?. Was the FBI's Anthrax bust a set-up? Also, more Monicagate theories. 22Feb98. http://www.conspire.com/curren44.html 8) Larry Wayne Harris' statements in Frontline, October 13, 1998. "My view of the future is that we are facing now a biological apocalypse. It is coming. The Bible says that it is coming." http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/plague/etc/script.html 9) Media contagion: botching the science behind the bioterror headlines. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-3.2/osullbio.html 10) Bio-labs face tight security. 18Oct01. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1605000/1605861.stm 11) Aryan National Alliance (ex Aryan Nations) http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/orgs/american/aryan-nations/ 12) The Prospect of Domestic Bioterrorism. By Jessica Stern. Council on Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C., USA. Jul/Aug, 1999. http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no4/pdf/stern.pdf 13) Stern, Jessica Eve. "Larry Wayne Harris." 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