2001 Anthrax facts

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More than 40 years of original Cracked magazine archives had to be destroyed due to possible contamination after the anthrax attacks of 2001.

In 2015 a senior FBI agent who ran the investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks sued the bureau for gathering "a staggering amount of exculpatory evidence" against their proposed sole culprit, Dr. Bruce Ivins, also saying he "absolutely does not think" he could've been proven guilty in court.

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1. Matt DeHart, hacker associated with Anonymous, discovered that the CIA played a role in the 2001 anthrax attacks. After he released this information, the CIA and FBI put warrants out for his arrest, illegally detained him, tortured him, charged him with possessing Child Pornography.

2. The key suspect of the 2001 anthrax attacks (Bruce Edwards Ilvins) committed suicide to avoid being criminally charged by the FBI but no charges were ever filed against him, nor does any direct evidence of his involvement exist.

3. Cracked Magazine's entire original archives were destroyed for fear of contamination during the 2001 anthrax scare

4. The prime suspect for the 2001 US anthrax attacks was a microbiologist who initially offered to help solve the crime

5. According to the FBI, the text inside the anthrax-laced letters sent to the media in 2001 contained a code that was inspired by Douglas Hofstadter's book "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid". (read pages 61-63 in the link)

6. In 2008, Bruce Ivins, an American microbiologist working at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, was federally prosecuted for creating and mailing the bacterial spores that killed five people in the 2001 anthrax attacks.

7. Bruce Ivins, the perpetrator of the 2001 anthrax attacks, was a microbiologist with the Army Medical Research Institute and in some cases investigated his own anthrax letters.

8. The 2001 anthrax attacks were suspected to have been carried out by a senior biodefense researcher working for the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Maryland

9. In 2001, starting a week after 9/11, letters containing Anthrax were mailed to various News stations and Democratic senators. 5 people died and 17 were infected. The main suspect, Bruce Edward Irvine, committed suicide after intense surveillance. A later FBI report cast doubt on his guilt.