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Nov. 21, 2002 -Tooele Transcript Bulletin (Original Link)- Dugway passes anthrax inquiry on to the FBI
Steve Erickson, director of the Salt Lake-based Citizens Education Network, has received a response from Dugway commander Col. Gary Harter regarding questions he had posed about the nature and safety of federal anthrax tests at Dugway Proving Ground. Erickson wanted to know if simulated or real anthrax was being used in the research.
Citing the ongoing investigation, Harter, in his reply, recommended that Erickson contact the FBI Public Affairs office for answers to his questions.
“I was a little bit surprised by the response,” Erickson said. “I wasn’t asking about the investigation, I was asking about the anthrax.”
Paula Nicholson, Dugway spokeswoman, said Harter sat down with his staff and determined that Erickson’s questions “all related to the investigation in one way or another.”
Erickson characterized Dugway’s response as “buck-passing.”
The FBI recently revealed it was conducting a series of tests at Dugway to recreate the anthrax used in last fall’s anthrax attacks in New York and Washington D.C. in order to determine what capabilities and resources the perpetrator who committed would possess. The government is hoping the investigation of how the anthrax was created will yield additional leads in the case.
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