Harry Reid: Another ricin incident at Bolling Air Force Base

Harry Reid: Another ricin incident at Bolling Air Force Base



By JUANA SUMMERS and GINGER GIBSON | 4/23/13 4:15 PM EDT
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said another ricin-laced letter may have been discovered at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C.

Reid said he knew no other details of the incident at the base, where the Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters is located.

The Defense Intelligence Agency said Tuesday that it had detected “the possible presence” of “a potentially harmful substance” at its office in Washington, but that it did not discover any specific “suspicious” letters or packages after investigating.

“The FBI took samples and will conduct further testing off-site,” said spokesman Thomas Veale, who added that DIA would not comment again about the “harmful substance” incident.

News of a possible third ricin incident comes on the same day that a man from Mississippi who had been arrested for sending the first two was released from jail.

Last week, letters mailed to President Barack Obama and Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) were found to contain ricin, a deadly poison that has no antidote. Both of those letters contained the same message and were signed “KC.”



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