NYT: Suspicious Package Sent to The Times
By AL BAKER
Published: July 14, 2006
Police and environmental workers responded to The New York Times offices today after an employee in the postal services department opened a letter addressed to the newspaper and saw a powdery substance he believed to be suspicious, the police said.
The incident unfolded at about 12:35 p.m. on the eighth floor of the newspaper’s West 43rd Street offices as the mailroom worker opened the white, business-sized envelope with no return address and saw what he later described as a white powder, the police said.
The letter had a postmark from Philadelphia, the police said, and contained an editorial published by The New York Times on June 28 titled "Patriotism and the Press," with a red "X" written across it, said Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman. Mr. Browne said the substance had yet to be identified but that it was later deemed to be beige in color, not white.
Following procedures established by the newspaper, the employee, a 54-year-old man from Brooklyn, immediately placed the letter in a plastic bag and alerted his supervisor, who dialed 911, the police said....
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Mr. Browne said the situation was being treated as a threat because of the way the letter arrived and the contents of the letter, meaning the defaced editorial, which defended the newspaper’s recent reporting on government operations. "It was deemed by the responding patrol as a suspicious substance because of those circumstances," Mr. Browne said....
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