FBI searching for ricin letter
Published:Friday | May 31, 2013 | 1:27 PM
US authorities are looking for a letter addressed to the CIA and believed to contain traces of the poison ricin.
The FBI says the letter, posted to a CIA office that does not receive mail, has been linked to a man charged with sending a ricin letter to a judge.
The man is suspected of sending a ricin letter to US President Barack Obama.
Thirty-eight-year-old Matthew Buquet, was arrested in Washington state on may 22 and charged with sending one of the letters to federal judge Fred Van Sickle.
Late on yesterday, the FBI in Seattle revealed it had linked ricin-laced letters addressed to a US post office, Obama and Buquet.
A fourth letter also linked to him, sent to the Fairchild Air Force Base near Spokane, is undergoing tests.
The FBI said a fifth letter, addressed to the CIA but to a location that does not receive postal deliveries, had not been located.
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