NEWS RELEASE

Release: No. DITA-3O9
Date Mailed: Dec. 14, 2001
For Immediate Release
Contact: Ingri Cassel-208/265-2575; 800/336-9266

Battelle Chief Suspect in Anthrax Mailings

Sandpoint, ID - A Harvard trained public health expert has released a stunning report exposing links between leading suspects in the anthrax mailings case and top bioweapons developer Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI) of West Jefferson, Ohio. The report considers the widely criticized FBI inquiry and concludes investigators have been blocked by officials linked to pharmaceutical company profiteers.

Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz, author of Death in the Air: Globalism, Terrorism and Toxic Warfare released last June, petitioned the FBI to investigate implicated parties two weeks before the first anthrax mailings made headlines. His full report (http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/anthrax/anthrax_espionage.html) explains why the world's leading anthrax experts-America's William C. Patrick, III, and Russian defector, Kanatjan Alibekov, both BMI consultants and on the CIA's payroll-would expose the government's classified (and illegal) biological weapons program if thoroughly interrogated.

"The whole truth would be severely embarrassing to the Bush administration," Dr. Horowitz said. "HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson has, after all, commandeered a bioterrorism preparedness drug feeding frenzy. With five persons killed and thirteen others infected, military-industrial officials may be implicated in serial homicide, if not economic genocide."

Dr. Horowitz claims this amounts to "military-industrial terrorism." The case should have been readily solved by the FBI by determining who held classified access to Battelle's BL-3 anthrax lab. From here, the weaponized Ames strain of silica-powdered anthrax was taken to New Jersey, Florida, Atlanta and Malaysia for mailing. The developed "short list" of suspects who stood to gain financially, and visited these places, are clearly the perpetrators of the crime.

Evidence is accumulating in support of Dr. Horowitz's theory. In recent days, the Baltimore Sun quoted anonymous military officials who said that U.S. Army scientists at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah tested "virtually identical" powdery spores used in the mailed attacks. One Army official said the source was "Dugway's Life Sciences Division." Dr. Horowitz's research proves that BMI administered and supplied this "Life Sciences" facility.

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Note to journalists: For more information about Dr. Horowitz's investigation, or a review copy of his book Death in the Air: Globalism, Terrorism and Toxic Warfare, please call Ingri Cassel at , or visit www.tetrahedron.org.