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"FBI foils anthrax plot in U.S. White supremacist, lab owner arrested by FBI in Nevada; Vials, car taken for testing; Bacillus to be used as terror weapon, say federal charges
PUBLISHED: February 20, 1998 at 12:00 AM EST | UPDATED: September 29, 2021 at 12:01 AM EDT
In a lightning operation involving scores of agents, the FBI arrested two men outside Las Vegas and charged them with obtaining deadly anthrax microbes for use as a terrorist weapon, authorities said yesterday.
One suspect, Larry Wayne Harris, 46, of Lancaster, Ohio, is a microbiologist and white supremacist who is on probation from a 1995 case in which he fraudulently obtained bubonic plague bacteria. He boasted last summer of plans to spread deadly biological toxins in the New York City subway, according to an FBI document.
The other suspect, William Job Leavitt Jr., 47, of Logandale, Nev., owns microbiology labs in Nevada and Germany and is listed in corporate documents as vice president of a Silver Spring health foundation.
Acting on a tip received Wednesday, FBI agents less than 12 hours later swooped down on the two men outside a lab in Henderson, 20 miles southeast of Las Vegas, and seized 40 Petrie dishes and a white cooler. They also seized a beige Mercedes-Benz automobile, sealed it with plastic and took it to a nearby Air Force base for examination.
All the seized items were being tested by FBI and military experts for the bacteria that causes anthrax, a common disease of livestock in developing countries, which has become one of the deadliest weapons in the world’s biological arsenals."
https://www.baltimoresun.com/1998/02/20/fbi-foils-anthrax-plot-in-us-white-supremacist-lab-owner-arrested-by-fbi-in-nevada-vials-car-taken-for-testing-bacillus-to-be-used-as-terror-weapon-say-federal-charges/