The AnthraX Chronicles | Part 4 Hero In The Morning, Bio-Terrorist By Night

The secret world of anthrax is deep, dark, and dirty.

Nov 10, 2023

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By Maryam Henein

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Soon after the narrative was seeded that the assailant behind the Anthrax letters was an American, a columnist at The New York Times entered the fray and started writing piece after piece about someone named “Mr. Z.” In August 2002, the FBI soon zeroed in on an army biodefense scientist named Steven Hatfill, a physician who had previously done virology work at USAMRIID.

“...Hatfill had commissioned a study on the effectiveness of a mailed anthrax attack and had taken ciprofloxacin, a powerful antibiotic used to treat or prevent anthrax, around the dates of the mailings,” wrote ProPublica.

Hatfill vehemently denied being the anthrax killer but he was harassed and hounded by the FBI, nonetheless. In their pursuit to guilt him, they even spent a quarter of a million dollars to drain a body of water that they believed contained an underwater lab. The only thing produced was a box that was later identified as a turtle trap.

Although the mainstream media largely moved on, the FBI investigation continued in the background with no real evidence for years. Even Baby Bush would tease infamous then-FBI director, Robert Mueller, on the lack of real progress on the investigation.

In 2004, Hatfill filed a lawsuit accusing the FBI agents and Justice Department officials claiming they had leaked information about him to the press in violation of the Privacy Act. He also sued The New York Times for libel although it was eventually dismissed.

According to George Webb, the FBI dragging its feet on the case possibly allowed TIGR to patent many US Army bioagents, not just Anthrax. That same year, Transhumanist Googlite Craig J.Venter patented most of the US Army’s bioweapons in Rockville, MD, including anthrax. He did it under his company The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR). In March of the year prior, TIGR patented the anthrax genome. George Webb has covered TIGR’s funding for 30 Different Anthrax Versions For Anthrax.

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