I forget all the particulars. :-)
In 1993, at the time it was supplying the virulent Ames strain sample, CAMR was partly privatized by the British government through a marketing agreement with Porton Products Ltd. in which Porton sold all its anthrax vaccine. Porton Products was owned by Speywood Holdings Ltd., which, in turn, was owned by I&F Holdings NV, a Netherlands Antilles corporate shell owned by Fuad El-Hibri, a Lebanese Arab with joint German-U.S. citizenship; his father, Ibrihim El-Hibri; and possibly other undisclosed investors.
Numerous other links turn up in a Google search of "Bioport ownership, Porton Down".
Point being: a company headed by a Lebanese Arab, who is a casual (he says) subscriber to the Muslim faith, has control of a virtual monopoly on the production of anthrax vaccine in the West. Not to mention access to the Ames strain of anthrax...
Perhaps, this is a completely innocent commercial enterprise. But what if it isn't...???