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Rh MR. SIMPSON: Yes. I mean, because we've not had liberty to talk about all these things, there's been a lot of misconception about this whole process. So, you know, it's a much broader project where we're not just looking at Russia and we're not just doing Russia stuff with Chris. We're doing our own Russia work.

So, you know, in addition to things like finding someone who can look into a Mexican, you know, suit factory to see how they treat their workers, we are scanning Russian newspapers or newspapers all around the world for information about these subjects. I have staff who prepare white papers on various subjects.

So without, you know, being too specific about it, in terms of the work product, you know, Chris' memos -- I mean, I guess it would be helpful to explain. So Chris' memos are raw field memoranda. They're from interviews with his source network. I didn't tell him what to write, you know, I didn't edit them. They're what came into me from him. And they're, you know, to my knowledge, the only drafts.

So ordinarily I would take material like that, that I got from a subcontractor in the field, and I would incorporate it into a more polished memorandum. And, you know, my style is a more journalistic style, so I'm not going to just give you what Tom, Joe, and Harry said. I'm going to say, here is what people said, and here is what we think that really means, what's really going on. It's a very analytical product. And, you know, that's to sort of guide the client's ability to make decisions.

And in this case, the material that came in from Chris was of such a kind of disturbing and serious nature, I didn't want to do that.


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MR. SIMPSON: So, because, you know, I'm an amateur student of a lot of UNCLASSIFIED, COMMITTEE SENSITIVE