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Behind Poisoned Letters - The Untold Story of the Anthrax Attacks

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Sony Music

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In 2001, a series of letters laced with a deadly powder called anthrax appeared on the desks of prominent journalists and politicians in New York City and Washington D.C causing a national panic. But what started as an unprecedented case soon turned into an unsettling mystery. Who had sent these letters? And why? Join us as we trace the FBI’s costly investigation into the attacks, all with an eye toward the question that remains today: Did the FBI identify the true killer, or is this case still unresolved? Unravel the story the played out behind closed doors on Cover Up: The Anthrax Threat, listen now wherever you get your podcasts Subscribers to The Binge can listen to all episodes of Cover Up: The Anthrax Threat right now, completely ad-free. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, Camillian listeners. Josh Dean here to tell you about a new podcast I'm hosting that just dropped on the binge.

0:06.0

Cover-Up, the anthrax threat.

0:08.0

If you're like me, you probably remember the anthrax attacks of 2001.

0:12.0

I'm sure you recall seeing headline after

0:13.8

headline about this mysterious deadly bio-wepin coming in through the mail and

0:17.5

remember feeling tensions rising with each laced letter that was discovered.

0:21.2

What you won't remember is the part of the story

0:23.6

that unfolded behind closed doors and this season on cover-up, the anthrax

0:28.2

threat. That's exactly the story we're telling. Join me as we unravel the

0:32.4

high stakes investigation behind the 2001 anthrax attacks that had the entire nation on edge.

0:38.0

In government buildings, the FBI was in a race against time to find who was responsible for these poison letters.

0:44.5

And did they actually do that?

0:46.1

Well, the answer isn't so simple.

0:48.7

Uncover the truth on cover up the anthrax threat available now. Listen weekly, you get your podcasts and if you're a subscriber to the binge you can enjoy all

0:56.5

episodes ad free today. Take a listen. In October 2001, 2001, a month after the September 11th attacks, a series of letters filled

1:11.6

with a deadly powdered bacteria called anthrax

1:14.3

landed on the desks of prominent journalists and politicians in New York City

1:18.8

and Washington, D.C. The anthrax in those letters killed five people.

1:23.8

Seventeen others were infected.

1:26.0

It was the worst act of bioterrorism in American history.

1:29.8

In the weeks and months around those attacks, unsettled American society in a truly profound way.

1:35.9

I was living in New York City at the time of the anthrax attacks, working in media.

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