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Same old same old. As the FBI knows very well the peculiarities of the addresses on the envelopes were readily explained. Turned out a right to life group called Jews for Life had a newsletter and a website duplicating it.

They had an article in June 2001 that carried a news article with the names and addresses of each of the folks who got an envelope sent to them.

The addresses were written on the envelopes in the peculiar format seen in that newsletter.

So, Ivins wife was an active Right to Life person. I don't know but maybe she belonged to that organization and left a copy of the newsletter around. Maybe her husband took it to his office one day. Maybe he used it to prepare the anthrax attack envelopes. Maybe a co-worker took it to prepare the anthrax attack envelopes and make it look like Jews had done the crime.

I suspect whoever did this thought the FBI was a lot smarter than they really are. On the other hand, maybe the FBI finally backtracked on the report I provided them through the US Postal Inspection Service regarding the location of these addresses in a periodical.

If so, they'd found Ivins wife and found Ivins, and they could have carried on from there.

They'd also have sent me the $7,200,000 reward they have out for "information leading to ..... blah, blah, blah", but they haven't which means THEY DON'T KNOW and they've got doubts about Dr. Ivins!

BTW, I'm not the guy who discovered the address formats, but I did discover the other interesting relationships the periodical had to the circumstances.

My initial suggestion to investigators was they review the mailing list for the organization in question, and see if they could cross correlate that with any of the gaggle of people who hung around with Barbara Hatch Rosenberg ~ my primary suspect!