The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy
The anthrax letter attacks occurred from September through November of 2001, killing
five and wounding many. The attacks were widely held to be the work of Muslims and
were used to support the invasion of Afghanistan and, later, the invasion of Iraq. They
were used explicitly and repeatedly to justify the passing of the Patriot Act. They were
also meant to support withdrawal from the Antiballistic Missile Treaty, a withdrawal
eagerly sought by the neoconservatives associated with the Project for a New American
Century who wished to pursue their global agenda without obstruction from small states
with WMD.
In the early days of the attacks there were several perpetrator hypotheses in play. One that
gained prominence was the Double Perpetrator hypothesis according to which Iraq had
supplied the sophisticated anthrax spores while al-Qaeda had supplied the foot soldiers
responsible for preparing and sending the letters. This hypothesis was eagerly reported by
the mainstream media. It came to grief quickly when scientists discovered that the
anthrax spores had a domestic source and appeared to come from the heart of the US
military and intelligence communities.
The FBI rapidly began a search for "the anthrax killer," promoting the idea that there was
a lone wolf perpetrator within the military community—a renegade, an unbalanced person
whose behavior revealed nothing of significance about structures and institutions of the
deep state. In 2008 the Bureau named Dr. Bruce Ivins of the United States Army Medical
Research Institute of Infectious Diseases as the "anthrax killer." Ivins had conveniently
died a week before being named and could not fight back in court. Ivins remains the
FBI's choice to this day: the case was closed in 2010. This book support with a great deal
of evidence the following four assertions:
(a) the anthrax letter attacks were carried out by a group of perpetrators, not by a "lone
wolf;"
(b) the group that perpetrated this crime was composed, in whole or in part, of deep
insiders within the U.S. state apparatus;
(c) these insiders were connected to the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks;
(d) the anthrax attacks were meant to play an important role in the strategy of redefinition
through which the Cold War was replaced by a new global conflict framework, the
Global War on Terror.
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The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy
The anthrax letter attacks occurred from September through November of 2001, killing
five and wounding many. The attacks were widely held to be the work of Muslims and
were used to support the invasion of Afghanistan and, later, the invasion of Iraq. They
were used explicitly and repeatedly to justify the passing of the Patriot Act. They were
also meant to support withdrawal from the Antiballistic Missile Treaty, a withdrawal
eagerly sought by the neoconservatives associated with the Project for a New American
Century who wished to pursue their global agenda without obstruction from small states
with WMD.
In the early days of the attacks there were several perpetrator hypotheses in play. One that
gained prominence was the Double Perpetrator hypothesis according to which Iraq had
supplied the sophisticated anthrax spores while al-Qaeda had supplied the foot soldiers
responsible for preparing and sending the letters. This hypothesis was eagerly reported by
the mainstream media. It came to grief quickly when scientists discovered that the
anthrax spores had a domestic source and appeared to come from the heart of the US
military and intelligence communities.
The FBI rapidly began a search for "the anthrax killer," promoting the idea that there was
a lone wolf perpetrator within the military community—a renegade, an unbalanced person
whose behavior revealed nothing of significance about structures and institutions of the
deep state. In 2008 the Bureau named Dr. Bruce Ivins of the United States Army Medical
Research Institute of Infectious Diseases as the "anthrax killer." Ivins had conveniently
died a week before being named and could not fight back in court. Ivins remains the
FBI's choice to this day: the case was closed in 2010. This book support with a great deal
of evidence the following four assertions:
(a) the anthrax letter attacks were carried out by a group of perpetrators, not by a "lone
wolf;"
(b) the group that perpetrated this crime was composed, in whole or in part, of deep
insiders within the U.S. state apparatus;
(c) these insiders were connected to the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks;
(d) the anthrax attacks were meant to play an important role in the strategy of redefinition
through which the Cold War was replaced by a new global conflict framework, the
Global War on Terror.
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The anthrax letter attacks occurred from September through November of 2001, killing
five and wounding many. The attacks were widely held to be the work of Muslims and
were used to support the invasion of Afghanistan and, later, the invasion of Iraq. They
were used explicitly and repeatedly to justify the passing of the Patriot Act. They were
also meant to support withdrawal from the Antiballistic Missile Treaty, a withdrawal
eagerly sought by the neoconservatives associated with the Project for a New American
Century who wished to pursue their global agenda without obstruction from small states
with WMD.
In the early days of the attacks there were several perpetrator hypotheses in play. One that
gained prominence was the Double Perpetrator hypothesis according to which Iraq had
supplied the sophisticated anthrax spores while al-Qaeda had supplied the foot soldiers
responsible for preparing and sending the letters. This hypothesis was eagerly reported by
the mainstream media. It came to grief quickly when scientists discovered that the
anthrax spores had a domestic source and appeared to come from the heart of the US
military and intelligence communities.
The FBI rapidly began a search for "the anthrax killer," promoting the idea that there was
a lone wolf perpetrator within the military community—a renegade, an unbalanced person
whose behavior revealed nothing of significance about structures and institutions of the
deep state. In 2008 the Bureau named Dr. Bruce Ivins of the United States Army Medical
Research Institute of Infectious Diseases as the "anthrax killer." Ivins had conveniently
died a week before being named and could not fight back in court. Ivins remains the
FBI's choice to this day: the case was closed in 2010. This book support with a great deal
of evidence the following four assertions:
(a) the anthrax letter attacks were carried out by a group of perpetrators, not by a "lone
wolf;"
(b) the group that perpetrated this crime was composed, in whole or in part, of deep
insiders within the U.S. state apparatus;
(c) these insiders were connected to the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks;
(d) the anthrax attacks were meant to play an important role in the strategy of redefinition
through which the Cold War was replaced by a new global conflict framework, the
Global War on Terror.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780986073120
Publisher: Clarity Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/15/2014
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 216
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

received his Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from
Harvard University and taught in the Religious Studies Department of McMaster
University for 30 years. While at McMaster he became founding Director of the Centre
for Peace Studies at McMaster, after which he helped develop the B.A. program in Peace
Studies and oversaw the development of peace-building projects in Sri Lanka, Gaza,
Croatia and Afghanistan. Graeme was a member of the organizing committee of the Toronto Hearings held on the
10th anniversary of 9/11 and is co-editor of The Journal of 9/11 Studies.

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Meanwhile, other disturbing evidence has continued to accumulate. For example, the FBI had claimed that Ivins could not account for extra hours in the lab in the evenings and weekends prior to the anthrax mailings. He was, they claimed, using this time to prepare the anthrax for the attacks. Such extra time in the lab at night was, they added, unprecedented in his work history.42 But investigators for PBS Frontline, ProPublica and McClatchy Newspapers found that Ivins was, in fact, doing valid and important work at the lab during the times in question. They also found that the number of night hours in the lab that had been called anomalous by the FBI were not so unusual–he had put in many extra hours in labs in the USAMRIID complex other than the lab to which the FBI had apparently restricted its attention.43

The same investigators cast further doubt on the contention that Ivins had
deliberately misled the FBI when making a sample submission to them. They said, basing their findings on documents made public after the NAS review, that the FBI's claim was misleading and that, moreover, the FBI knew it was misleading.44

Doubts about the time required to prepare the anthrax spores were also
expressed by researchers. In an interview with ProPublica, Dr. Henry Heine, a former supervisor of Ivins at USAMRIID, said that the period in Ivins' schedule identified by the FBI as his opportunity to prepare the spores (the "34 more hours in the B3 suite than his combined total for the previous seven months") wascompletely inadequate for the task the FBI alleges he was performing. The 34 hours, Heine said, are "more than 8,000 hours (close to a year) short of what he would have needed to grow the anthrax."45 Heine added that it would have been impossible for Ivins to have prepared the anthrax without his colleagues being aware of it.

What, then, in the light of all these developments, is the state of the DOJ's
case against Ivins today? The official position of the Department and its
investigative agency, the FBI, is that Ivins was the anthrax killer and the case is closed. But many scientists are unconvinced, as are several important elected officials. Representative Holt, unsatisfied with the FBI's investigation, has been trying for some time to initiate a new, formal investigation.46 The fact that these doubts are shared by some within the DOJ and are discussed frankly and seriously in the mainstream media indicates that the standing of the DOJ's case very low.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 6

1 Introduction 9

2 The 2001 Anthrax Attacks 17

3 War and Civil Liberties 27

4 Anthrax and Civil Liberties 44

5 Perpetrator Hypotheses 65

6 Advance Knowledge of the Attacks 106

7 The Hijacker Connection 134

8 The Unthinkable 177

9 Conclusion 197

Appendix 205

Index 209

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