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Glenn SimpsonPage 239 us know much about and it's really just he's faithfully reporting information to him that's being reported to him by his network.

In British intelligence the methodology's a little different from American intelligence. There's a practice of being faithful to what people are saying. So these are relatively straightforward recitations of things that people have said. Obviously as we talked about before, you know, disinformation is an issue that Chris wrestles with, has wrestled with his entire life. So if he believed any of this was disinformation, he would have told us.

Q. And did he ever tell you that information in any of these memos, that he had concerns that any of it was disinformation?

A. No. What he said was disinformation is an issue in my profession, that is a central concern and that we are trained to spot disinformation, and if I believed this was disinformation or I had concerns about that I would tell you that and I'm not telling you that. I'm telling you that I don't believe this is disinformation.

Q. And then on the memo, the Carter Page memo, which is company report 2016/94, you said 1-800-FOR-DEPO