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lingering evidence. Panicking, he realises that this is Wright's backup plan; if the still-full tanks explode in the same room, enough of the two agents would still combine to kill thousands. One tank is manhandled out of the open venting window and explodes as it falls to the street. The other tank explodes in the hallway of the apartment block. The two chemicals are harmless by themselves, and nobody is injured by either the liquid chemicals or the explosions.
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the venting was complete. Graves takes this to mean that Wright knew he might disarm the tanks and had a backup plan. He recalls the flammable nature of the tanks, and the missing plastic explosive, reasoning that Wright had intended the tanks to explode after being emptied – thus destroying any
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Defense Department, with some minor assistance by State Department personnel, particularly Mr. R. Phelps" and that although
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