First, CIA agents tried to find or buy a small Soviet-designed biological bomb, which releases germs in a fine mist. When the search failed the agency approved a plan to make a mock "bomblet", based on intelligence information, and study how efficiently such a weapon could disperse a load of microbes."
Once again BMI was chosen for the project. Two tests were completed on a prototype measuring dissemination characteristics and how the model performed under different atmospheric conditions. Does the term, much in the news of late, "dirty bomb" come to mind?
The CIA maintains, through spokesperson Bill Harlow, that the device does not violate the 1972 treaty on Chemical and Biological Weapons because, "it lacked a fuse and did not contain dangerous germs."
If FBI Director Mueller’s assurances to Senator DeWine are kept and no present or former BMI operatives will be pursued, and the CIA is obviously off limits to the FBI, there may be no resolution of the mailed anthrax case unless... unless a suspect can be found to fit the FBI "profile" or the perception can be created that some microbiologist is a "fit."
Once again BMI was chosen for the project. Two tests were completed on a prototype measuring dissemination characteristics and how the model performed under different atmospheric conditions. Does the term, much in the news of late, "dirty bomb" come to mind?
The CIA maintains, through spokesperson Bill Harlow, that the device does not violate the 1972 treaty on Chemical and Biological Weapons because, "it lacked a fuse and did not contain dangerous germs."
If FBI Director Mueller’s assurances to Senator DeWine are kept and no present or former BMI operatives will be pursued, and the CIA is obviously off limits to the FBI, there may be no resolution of the mailed anthrax case unless... unless a suspect can be found to fit the FBI "profile" or the perception can be created that some microbiologist is a "fit."