Steven Hatfill

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Dr. Steven Jay Hatfill (born October 24, 1953) is a virologist and bio-weapons expert. The United States Department of Justice identified the former government scientist as a "person of interest" in its investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks but has not sought charges. FBI raids on his home were well attended by journalists. By implication, several news outlets have speculated that Hatfill is the likeliest suspect for the anthrax attacks.

Hatfill has maintained that he is innocent and is suing the government for compensation for the damage he claims has been inflicted on his professional reputation and employment prospects. His lawyer, Victor M. Glasberg, stated:

'Steve's life has been devastated by a drumbeat of innuendo, implication and speculation. We have a frightening public attack on an individual who, guilty or not, should not be exposed to this type of public opprobrium based on speculation.

In an embarrassing incident, FBI agents trailing Hatfill in a motor vehicle ran over his foot when he attempted to approach them in May, 2003.

Steven Hatfill was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and attended Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas. Here he studied biology. Later he worked as a medical missionary in Kapanga, Zaire under his mentor Dr. Glenn Eschtruth. Hatfill would later marry Dr. Eschtruth's daughter, Caroline. The couple divorced and Hatfill settled in Rhodesia to study medicine at the Godfrey Huggins Medical School.

He later worked at USAMRIID. He also worked at Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, LA after USAMRIID.

External links

http://www.iol.co.za/?click_id=13&art_id=ct2002070110581920A536231&set_id=1 "AWB sympathiser quizzed over anthrax killings. He alienated the women staff because he would invite them to wild ('poke and puke') parties. Considerable doubt about the validity of Hatfill's research". Report by Tony Weaver
http://www.mg.co.za/articledirect.aspx?area=mg_flat&articleid=7349 "Murky past of a US bio-warrior". Report by Marlene Burger
http://www.guardian.co.uk/anthrax/story/0,,968228,00.html "Anthrax suspect lied to get jobs". Report by Martin Bright and Simon Cooper
http://www.guardian.co.uk/anthrax/story/0,,968229,00.html "Walter Mitty life of anthrax terror suspect". The 'person of interest' named in the US germ scare investigation lied his way into his job. Report by Martin Bright and Simon Cooper
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/Bioter/messageanthrax.html "The Message In The Anthrax" Article by Don Foster in Vanity Fair.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/vforum/02/anthrax_media/index.html Video of Columbia University School of Journalism Panel Discussion of Hatfill Investigation and Trial by Media
http://www.angelfire.com/ex/projecthatfill/seed.html Definitive exposé of Hatfill's career, with solid evidence that most of Hatfill's resumés were falsified.
http://www.anthraxinvestigation.com/hatfill.pdf One of Hatfill's resumés.
http://cryptome.quintessenz.org/mirror/hatfill.pdf "Questionable (Quite Possibly Unsavory) Past – Ideal Fall-Guy for the Anthrax Incidents"
http://www.angelfire.com/ex/projecthatfill/images/weaver.jpg Hatfill boasted of being the armed combat trainer of Aquila/Brandwag, the bodyguards of Eugene Terre'Blanche 's neo-Nazi party, the AWB (Afrikanerweerstandsbeweging), in apartheid South Africa.
http://jdo.org/hatfill.htm A Web Site that poses a challenge to Hatfill (termed "The Bioevangelist") to sue the Author (Alan J Weberman). Weberman offers Hatfill's spokesperson, Pat Clawson, "a five pound glatt kosher pastrami sandwich on two thick slices of kosher rye bread with an entire jar of deli-mustard on it....if he can convince Hatfill to sue us"
http://luigiwarren.blogspot.com/2006/02/steve-had-righteously-decided-such.html An account of Hatfill in action in Rhodesia by Peter McAleese
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/8/19/201601.shtml Supportive of Hatfill and calls the FBI investigation of Hatfill a "crucifixion."
http://www.angelfire.com/ex/projecthatfill/framed.html A Blog devoted to a thesis that "Far from being the anthrax killer, biodefense insider and acknowledged leg-puller Steve Hatfill is a willing fall guy in a diversion staged to paper over an unvoicable reality"
http://luigiwarren.blogspot.com/2005/04/luigi-anthrax-warren.html A Blog (The Luigi Andrea ["Anthrax"] Warren Deception) which uncovers the identity of the author of the Blog above ("The Hatfill Deception")

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