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Glenn SimpsonPage 163 he had gathered that made him concerned about the possibility of blackmail and who did he think was going to be blackmailed?

A. Well, the facts are — beyond what's here I don't have any additional facts. The alleged incident that's described here is the one that he was referring to. As I say, I don't have really any additional information beyond this except that — I mean, it's probably in here somewhere actually, but it's well known in intelligence circles that the Russians have cameras in all the luxury hotel rooms and there are memoirs written about this by former Russian intelligence agents I could quote you. So the problem of kompromat and kompromating is just endemic to east-west intelligence work. So that's what I'm referring to. That's what he's referring to.

Q. Got it. So that would be in the summary the kind of third dash point down where it mentions —

A. Yes, that's right.

Q. — that FSB — what is your understanding of who or what FSB is?

A. It's a successor to the KGB. I mean, nominally it's the domestic intelligence agency on 1-800-FOR-DEPO