Anthrax attacks 'may be CIA research gone wrong'

A US scientist claims last autumn's deadly anthrax attacks may have been the result of CIA research which went disastrously wrong.

The call comes from Barbara Rosenberg, director of the Federation of American Scientists' Chemical and Biological Weapons Program.

She says the spy agency commissioned a study four years ago on the likely impact of anthrax being sent through the mail.

She told BBC's Newsnight the person commissioned to carry out the study may have decided to use his knowledge for his own ends - leading to the deaths of five people.

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