I don't know if there is a tight connection or a loose one, but they seem to be barking up the same biochem WMD tree. Here’s some tidbits on Larry Wayne Harris from the DSL: http://www.examiner.com/daily/0220anthrax.html Cleveland Plain Dealer Michael Sangiacomo “…… One of the men arrested by the FBI near Las Vegas on a charge of possessing a lethal biological agent has been warning since 1995 that Americans face the threat of a bacteriological attack -- from Iraq or even the U.S. government. …….
Harris and William Leavitt, who owns biology laboratories in Logandale, Nev., and Frankfurt, Germany, were charged Thursday with conspiracy to possess a biological agent for use as a weapon. ……..
The FBI said one of the suspects bragged in Las Vegas that he had enough to wipe out the city and last year laid out a plan to unleash bubonic plague on New York City subways in a massacre that would ruin the economy, surprise the military and be blamed on the Iraqis……..
Harris, identified by the FBI as a member of the white-supremacist Aryan Nations, was previously given 18 months' probation after pleading guilty to illegally obtaining bubonic plague bacteria through the mail in 1995. Last year he pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud for claiming that he was buying the pathogens for a laboratory where he worked. He was ordered to stop telling people that he works for the CIA. …….
Aryan Nations founder Richard Butler said Thursday that Harris joined the group in the early 1990s and left in 1995. ……. Carl Raschke, a University of Denver professor and expert on domestic terrorists and cult groups, said Harris was saying on the Internet last summer that the federal government would create a bio-terrorism incident and then blame it on Iraq. Raschke monitors such Internet activity daily. ……
In a 1996 interview on "The Intelligence Report," a shortwave radio program produced by Wolverine Productions, Harris talked at length about how to reconstitute dehydrated anthrax and bubonic plague bacteria and distribute them in major U.S. cities through the exhaust systems of cars and airplanes. ……
According to Neff, Harris described how someone could create a deadly broth from the anthrax culture, put it in a pressurized paint sprayer and then spread the deadly germs from a low-flying airplane -- killing at least 100,000 people and still be undetectable. ......
According to an FBI affidavit made public Thursday regarding the arrests of Harris and Leavitt, the FBI said that last summer Harris described plans for the New York attack. "Harris told a group of plans to place a 'globe' of bubonic plague toxins in a New York subway station, where it would be broken by a passing subway train, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths. Harris stated that the Iraqis would be blamed for that event." ...... “
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/chemhar.htm Interview with Larry Wayne Harris by David E. Kaplan Senior Editor, U.S. News & World Report 9/2/97
“…..USN: So you think we’ll see terrorist use of biochemical agents in the U.S.?
LWH: Heavens yes! It’s already happened. We’ve been experimented on by people in the U.S. for years. The government did it... There are super-rats. About 1989, the government took rats -- 100 from each big city -- and injected them with bubonic plague, to see how well it would start a plague. None of them would last long enough to become infectious. But the plan backfired.
USN: How hard is it to create biological weapons?
LWH: Not hard at all. I recovered anthrax, it took just ten days. I checked the newspapers and found the last outbreak in Ohio, it was in the 1950s. I found where the cows were buried and used a long prod to get a sample... It’s very deadly stuff. A single container of anthrax could cause within 48 hours 100,000 people dead. I also cultured yersinia intercolitica -- it’s like plague. You can do it table top. The only thing you need is a good microscope, an autoclave, an incubator... Let’s whip up some botulism -- that’s simple.
USN: Do you think others are doing similar things?
LWH: Of course they’re going to. That goes without saying... Biologicals are extremely easy and far more deadly than an atomic bomb. And microbiologists are the one group that posssess the largest number of their own personal private labs in their own homes than any other discipline out there.
USN: There’s a lot of material available on the Net on biochemical agents -- formulas, where to order recipe books, and so forth. How do you feel about that?
LWH: You haven’t seen anything yet. Wait ‘till you see what’s getting ready to go on the Net. The people I’m talking to... they’re going to post step-by-step instructions how to obtain anthrax, how to disperse it...
USN: Doesn’t that worry you?
LWH: Not at all. It’s deterence. If you know that everyone in the neighborhood has an atomic bomb, civility returns to the neighborhood very quickly.
USN: So, do you think your associates might use these weapons against the government?
LWH: If they arrest a bunch of our guys, they get a test tube in the mail... How many cities are you willing to lose before you back off? At what point do you say: ‘If these guys want to go off to the Northwest and have five stated declared to be their own free and independent country, let them do it?" ….”
http://salonmagazine.com/news/1998/02/20news.html 2/20/1998 Jeff Stein “…. Larry Wayne Harris, arrested Wednesday in Las Vegas with a car full of suspected biological weapons, told an interviewer recently he'd been experimenting with a half dozen other toxins, including bubonic plague, and had made anthrax from a pit in the woods near Cleveland where previously infected cows had been buried 40 years ago. "You know how long it took me to isolate anthrax from the earth?" Harris said, according to a transcript given to Salon by a U.S. government intelligence agency. "Ten days. It took me 14 days to recover bubonic plague." Asked what else he'd been experimenting with, Harris said, "Brucellosis. Tularemia. Cholera. I mostly work with yersinia (bubonic plague virus). It's easy to isolate from cow droppings."
…….Military and FBI officials are testing the suspected toxin at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. …… Harris was on parole after a 1995 conviction for fraudulently trying to obtain botulism samples from a biotechnology firm in suburban Washington, D.C. He claimed that his actions were designed to warn Americans about the perils of biological warfare materials and how easy it is to obtain them. …….
"I hooked it up to a vacuum pump. I incubated it at 35 degrees overnight," he said, adding that, "you can spread this stuff with a commercial paint sprayer (and) use ... mounts outside older aircraft" to spray it over a city. "Within 48 hours, over 100,000 would be dead. If you have one-tenth of a millionth of a gram, that's enough to kill a person." ………
"My book is strictly about civil defense," he said. "I've talked with the casualty management team at the Pentagon. They tell me that it would take one year to recover from the loss of a million people."
The media stereotype of all domestic terrorists is that of the angry, White male. In most cases, nothing could be further from the truth (certainly the Washington, D.C. snipers wouldn't fit that bill).