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File: aacux_03.txtHORNER I'm in my office, and it is the honest to God truth, right in the door of my office walked this Army major from Fort Detrick, Maryland. He says, "I'm a biological guy. I understand you have had some trouble understanding biological warfare." Pretty much like God sitting up there: "Send him one!" (laughter} So the guy sat down, and He didn't start talking. I said, "Well, tell me about this stuff." He started "allaying" my fears about how lethal this stuff is. He said, "First of all, you are exposed to anthrax every day of your life." I didn't know that. He said, "We have people dying in the United States from anthrax all the time because of things like shearing sheep that are sick, and they get these massive doses, and it kills them." (END SIDE 2, TAPE 1) He said, "Those spores are very vulnerable to sunlight, and water kills them. Chlorinated water kills the dead, so this idea of the getting in the water system here in Saudi Arabia and killing people, that's pure horse manure." We got to talking, then I sent him down to Buster, and Buster's guys started talking to him. That's when we got the idea and built the charts. [(b)(1)sec3.4 0(6)] (laughter) So that was my chart; hit them, and then if you weren't doing that, ___________. Buster gave me all that data from working with this guy So then we went into the meeting. As best I recall, I briefed that it was a problem, and "here's what we are going to do." I showed some charts, and so many degrees, and this 33
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