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Despite the KGB's best efforts to destroy all evidence by confiscating hospital and other records after the incident, the wily scientists were able to track the location of the victims on that fateful day. After much investigation, a pattern began to emerge. The results clearly showed that most of the victims were located along a straight line downwind from the facility.

Moreover, livestock in the area also died from Anthrax and the team was able to conclude, without a shadow of a doubt, that the outbreak was caused by a release of an aerosol of anthrax pathogen at the military facility. Unfortunately, they were unable to determine what caused the release or what specific activities might have occurred at the facility.

According to Dr Kanatian Alibekov, the former first deputy of Biopreparat, the civilian arm of the Soviet biological weapons program, the leak was caused by workers at the facility who neglected to replace a filter in a crucial exhaust pipe.

Their error was realized soon after but by then, some spores had already escaped. Had the wind been blowing towards the city center, the death toll would definitely have been much higher. To this day, western inspectors are forbidden from entering the facility and it remains to be seen if the Soviet Government will come clean with this matter once and for all.

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