Feds announce $20,000 reward for SRS anthrax hoax in 2005

Augusta Chronicle. ^ | September 02, 2008

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Federal and local law enforcement agencies today issued a $20,000 reward for information about a 2005 anthrax hoax at Savannah River Site. The Atlanta Field Office of the FBI, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office jointly issued the reward to aid their investigation into discovering the identity and location of the person initiating the hoax against officials at SRS and the federal Department of Energy, according to an FBI press release.

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Why now?

Is this the first such reward offered re: an anthrax hoax?

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So what about the “hoax letters”

“At least one hoax letter was apparently thought by the FBI to have been sent by the anthrax perpetrator (it was sent from England while Steven Hatfill was training there, and was considered to be part of the case against him). Judith Miller at the NY Times received a hoax letter. Anthrax hoax letters were sent from Florida, Malaysia and possibly other places. It is critical that these letters be publicly revealed, and that handwriting analysis, identification of the envelopes, identification of the tape used (if any) and the ink is compared to the true anthrax letters. If any came from the same source, then the anthrax perpetrator(s) must be able to be placed where they were mailed, in the appropriate time frame. Can any of the one hundred persons who had access to the spores from Ivins’ flask be placed in New Jersey and these other locations at the right times? If not, the crime involves more than one person.....”

Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D.