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To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (456)	12/1/2001 8:35:12 PM
From: mr.mark	of 602

Scientists Won't Open Leahy Letter Updated: Sat, Dec 01 6:51 PM EST The anthrax-laden letter to Sen. Patrick Leahy will be opened only when scientists feel confident they can recover all of the anthrax in the envelope, the FBI said Saturday. "No one wants to go forward until additional equipment is in place and has been tested in trial runs," said FBI spokesman John Collingwood, who did not put a time frame on the process. Scientists want to use the equipment to ensure that the anthrax is free of any electrostatic charge when the envelope is opened, said Collingwood. Otherwise, anthrax spores could fly out of the envelope and be lost to investigators, a problem which occurred when scientists were trying to recover anthrax from a similar letter to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle. The goal is to to de-ionize the anthrax particles without harming them, Collingwood added. Some of the anthrax from the anthrax-tainted letter to Daschle "literally jumped off the slide" as lab technicians tried to examine it under a microscope, said a government lawyer outside the FBI who is familiar with the problem. The lawyer, who has dealt with biological weapons issues for several years, spoke on condition of anonymity. It has been more than two weeks since the Leahy letter was found by government investigators among mail that had been quarantined after the Oct. 15 discovery of anthrax in the Daschle letter. The letter will be opened at the U.S. Army's biodefense laboratory in Fort Detrick, Md., where anthrax-laced letters to Daschle and NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw were tested. The FBI believes the letters were sent by the same person. news.excite.com

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