IP: BBC newscast discusses possible CIA-Anthax connections

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

> Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:01:19 -0500
> From: Tim Finin <finin@cs.umbc.edu>
> To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
> Subject: BBC newscast discusses possible CIA-Anthax connections

As usual form your own judgements djf


> Here's a transcript from a BBC newscast in which
> discusses possible CIA connections to the Anthrax
> attacks.  Microbiologist Barbara Rosenberg,
> among others, offers a particular
> theory.  She's been right, it seems, on her
> previous theories on this case...
>
>   Anthrax attacks 14/3/02
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/audiovideo/programmes/newsnight/archive/newsid_1873000/1873368.stm
>
>    ...
>   "Three weeks ago Dr Barbara Rosenberg - an
>    acknowledged authority on US bio-defence -
>    claimed the FBI is dragging its feet because an
>    arrest would be embarrassing to the US
>    authorities. Tonight on Newsnight, she goes
>    further...suggesting there could have been a
>    secret CIA field project to test the
>    practicalities of sending anthrax through the
>    mail - whose top scientist went badly off the
>    rails..."
>    ...

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