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Glenn SimpsonPage 242 course, you know, when we talk about things in the dossier that are confirmed, this is one of the things that I think really stands out as notable, which is that Chris identified Carter Page as someone who had — seemed to be in the middle of the campaign, between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, and he later turned out to be an espionage suspect who was, in fact, someone that the FBI had been investigating for years.

Q. So beyond what is in the dossier, did you kind of find any evidence that he had actually been compromised? Now I'm speaking of Carter Page.

A. Well, the definition of compromised is someone who has been influenced sometimes without even their knowledge. We had reason to believe that he had, in fact, been offered business deals that were — that would tend to influence him, business arrangements.

Q. And do you have the records of those business deals that you had collected?

A. Yeah. I don't think so. Most of that was, in fact, reporting that we did with other people who knew him from the business world.

Q. And then just the next memo that we had touched on, 2016/95, it has Bates numbers 41397 to 1-800-FOR-DEPO