According to Miller’s article, the project never produced anything more than a couple of relatively harmless pesticides. However, this is a far cry from making a weaponized powder such as the mailed anthrax. That takes a lot more expertise and expensive equipment.
Miller says the Times requested information about the project and Davis got permission to bring her and an ABC camera crew out to the facility. There is no indication that ABC has done anything with the story that this writer can find.
If the intent of the Times article and the BACHUS program was to convince the public a lone individual could have been responsible for the mailed anthrax, they have earned "Maggie’s Drawers" (a military term for the flag waved when a shooter misses the target completely).
However a second program also begun in 1997 may be more relevant to the mailed anthrax mystery.
According to the BIOHAZARD NEWS publication, "a 1997 article in a scientific journal reported that Russian scientists had implanted into the anthrax microbe genes that cause food poisoning, producing a strain that was resistant to Russia's anthrax vaccine." (Could Alibek have planted the story?)
Miller says the Times requested information about the project and Davis got permission to bring her and an ABC camera crew out to the facility. There is no indication that ABC has done anything with the story that this writer can find.
If the intent of the Times article and the BACHUS program was to convince the public a lone individual could have been responsible for the mailed anthrax, they have earned "Maggie’s Drawers" (a military term for the flag waved when a shooter misses the target completely).
However a second program also begun in 1997 may be more relevant to the mailed anthrax mystery.
According to the BIOHAZARD NEWS publication, "a 1997 article in a scientific journal reported that Russian scientists had implanted into the anthrax microbe genes that cause food poisoning, producing a strain that was resistant to Russia's anthrax vaccine." (Could Alibek have planted the story?)