The Anthrax Threat I 1. Scramble the Jets

The Conspiracy Tapes

Sony Music

True Crime, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In the wake of 9/11, a handful of media and government workers started experiencing a troubling confluence of symptoms. Doctors couldn’t explain it, until they pinpointed the unlikely cause: exposure to anthrax. From Campside Media and Sony Music Entertainment, this is Season 4 of Cover Up: The Anthrax Threat. Unlock all episodes of Cover Up: The Anthrax Threat, ad-free, right now by subscribing to The Binge. Plus, get binge access to brand new stories dropping on the first of every month — that’s all episodes, all at once, all ad-free. Just click ‘Subscribe’ on the top of the Cover Up: The Anthrax Threat show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find out more about The Binge and other podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts and @campside_media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to cover up the anthrax threat.
0:02.6	Before you dive in, if you want to listen to the whole story uninterrupted, you can.
0:06.7	Unlocked the entire season ad free right now with a subscription to the binge.
0:10.7	That's all episodes all at once.
0:13.0	Unlock you're listening now by clicking subscribe at the top of the cover-up show page on
0:17.0	Apple Podcasts or visit get the Binge.com to get access wherever you get your
0:21.3	podcasts. Campside Media.
0:27.0	The bench. In October 2001, 2001, a month after the September 11th attacks, a series of letters filled with a deadly powdered bacteria called anthrax
0:48.8	landed on the desks of prominent journalists and politicians in New York City and Washington DC.
0:55.5	The anthrax in those letters killed five people.
0:58.6	Seventeen others were infected.
1:00.5	It was the worst act of bioterrorism in American history in the weeks and months around those attacks
1:06.5	Unsettled American society in a truly profound way
1:09.9	I was living in New York City at the time of the Anthrax Attacks, working in media, for a major magazine publisher in the same zip code as NBC News, Fox News, in what was then known as Time Inc.
1:22.0	Publisher of Giant Titles like Time, Sports Illustrated, and People.
1:27.1	In the fear of those letters spread, the idea that you could die just by opening the mail
1:32.0	is one of my most visceral memories of that time.
1:35.4	The days after 9-11, when it seemed like the whole world had been turned upside down.
1:40.2	You know, I remember talking to friends I had back in Indiana, you know, four or five days after 9-11,
1:47.0	and how you guys doing out there and they go, what are you talking about?
1:50.0	We went back to normal the next day.
1:52.0	It didn't impact them directly.
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