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FBI Investigates Ricin Letter
The FBI is investigating a letter containing a vial of ricin that was found last week in an airport postal office in Greenville, S.C., U.S. officials said yesterday (see GSN, July 18). No one was harmed by the toxin, which was contained in a waterproof, metal container, officials said. The airmail office in the cargo area of the airport has been closed, however, as a “precautionary” measure, a U.S. Postal service spokesman. The vial is not considered to be an act of terrorism, but instead a criminal incident, law enforcement and public health officials said. A note inside the letter said that large amounts of ricin would be dumped into U.S. drinking water supplies if a rule requiring that truck drivers rest after 10 hours on the road was not reversed, officials said. “This does not bear the mark of international terrorism,” U.S. Homeland Security Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said (Judith Miller, New York Times, Oct. 23). Officials refused to say to whom the letter was addressed or where it had been postmarked, according to the Associated Press. A federal law enforcement official said the letter was not addressed to any government official (Associated Press/USA Today, Oct. 23).
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