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Date of entry 12/27/2016

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Do not disseminate outside the FBI without the permission of the originator or program
manager .

Bruce OHR , , currently the Associate


Deputy Attorney General and Director of the Department of Justice ' s
Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) was interviewed at
FBI Headquarters . After being advised of the identity of the interviewing
Agent and the nature of the interview , OHR provided the following
information :

On December 20 , 2016 , at 11 : 00 A . M. OHR provided writer with an


8GB SanDisk Cruzer Glide USB micro digital data storage drive (thumb
drive) . Glen Simpson at Fusion GPS hired OHR ' s wife , Nellie Ohr , to
conduct research for his firm . OHR voluntarily provided his wife ' s
research to the FBI . OHR provided the interviewing Agent with the thumb
drive and indicated it contained the totality of the work Nellie Ohr
conducted for Simpson , but the Fusion GPS header was stripped . Nellie Ohr
is a Russian linguist/analyst and a former Russian History professor . The
thumb drive was entered into evidence .

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Event Title: Nellie Ohr research for Date : 12/20/2016


Fusion GPS

Approved By :

Drafted By :

Case ID #: CROSSFIRE HURRICANE ;


FOREIGN AGENTS REGISTRATION ACT -
RUSSIA ;
SENSITIVE INVESTIGATIVE MATTER

DRAFT DOCUMENT/DELIBERATIVE MATERIAL


Do not disseminate outside the FBI without the permission of the originator or
program manager .

Full Investigation Initiated : 07/31/2016

Collected From : Associate Deputy Attorney General


and Director of the Department of Justice ' s
Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task
Force (OCDETF) Bruce Ohr
DOJ

Receipt Given ?: No

Holding Office: WASHINGTON FIELD

Details :

On December 20 , 2016 , at 11 : 00 A . M. Bruce OHR ,


currently the Associate Deputy Attorney General and
Director of the Department of Justice ' s Organized Crime and Drug

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Title : Nellie Ohr research for Fusion GPS
Re : , 12/20/2016

Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) provided writer with an 8GB SanDisk


Cruzer Glide USB micro digital data storage drive (thumb drive).

Glen Simpson at Fusion GPS hired OHR ' s wife , Nellie Ohr , to
conduct research for his firm . OHR voluntarily provided ·his wife ' s
research to the FBI . OHR provided the interviewing Agent with the
thumb drive and indicated it contained the totality of the work Nellie
Ohr conducted for Simpson , but the Fusion GPS header was stripped .
Nellie Ohr is a Russian linguist/analyst and a former Russian History
professor .

Item Type Description


lB Digital 8GB SanDisk Cruzer Glide USB micro digital
data storage drive (thumb drive)
Collected On : 12/20/2016 11:00 AM EST
Seizing Individual :
Collected By :
Location Area :
Specific Location :
Device Type : USB Micro Storage Device (thumb drive)
Make : SanDisk
Data Capacity : 8 GB
Designation : Original
Number of Devices Collected : 1

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Date of entry 01/31/2017

DRAFT DOCUMENT/DELIBERATIVE MATERIAL


Do not di ssemi nate ou tside the FBI without the permission of t he or i g i nator or program
ma nager .

Bruce OHR , , currently the


Associate Deputy Attorney General and Director of the Department of
Justice ' s Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Forc e (OCDETF) was
interviewed at FBI Headquarters, 935 Pennsylvania Ave ., Washington , DC .
After being advised of the identity of the interviewing Special Agent and
Intelligence Analyst and the nature of the interview , OHR provided the
following information :

On January 20 , 2017, OHR received an e - mail from Glen Simpson


asking OHR to contact Simpson . OHR subsequently contacted Simpson
telephonically. During the telephonic conversat i on, Simpson told OHR that
one of Christopher Steele ' s employees has been identified and will likely
be publicly named by the media within the next couple of days . Simpson did
not know the identity or c o ntact information of the employee , only that the
employee was intimately involved in compiling the information contained
within the dossier on Donald J. Trump and the Trump campaign . Due to the
sensitive nature of the employee's work and contacts, revealing the
identity of the employee could place the employee in danger . Simpson was
c onsidering putting the employee in contact with an attorney to advise the
employee . When OHR asked for more information regarding the employee and
the nature o f the threat, Simpson replied he would contact Steele for more
information and then re- contact OHR.

In the early hours of January 21 , 2017 , OHR received a text


message from Steele which OHR did not notice until later in the morning .
Around 8:00 am on the same day, OHR received call from Steele . During this
conversation Steele relayed his concerns regarding the safety of his

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FD-302a (Rev 05-08- 10)

I n t erview o f Bruce Ohr 23


Ja,n ua r y 2017
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empioyee if t~e effiployee's Aaffie was rel e ased iA tne med ia . St e e le s tated i f
the employee ' s name was released , the employee "may need help quickly . u
Steele has been unable to directly contact the employee
indicating the employee was
alright . When asked for the employee ' s identity, Steele replied that he did
not have the employee ' s permission to share the information , but if contact
was needed , , ,
whom Steele identified as and was known to both Steel and OHR could
arrange contact. Steele believed the employee ,
, would be scared if the US Government
contacted the employee ; the employee ' s natural inclination would be to ' lay
low .'

In addition to the publication of the employee ' s name , an


individual Steele identified as was about to be exposed (NFI) in the
public which would also lead to the employee being identified .

Steele also told OHR that he spoke with a staff member of


Senator John McCain ' s office sometime prior to October 2016 . Steele had
this conversation at the request of . Since October 2016 ,
Steele had not spoken to anyone regarding the Trump dossier .

OHR took notes during the contact with Simpson and Steele to
preserve his memory and referred to them during the interview . OHR ' s notes
are an attachment to this document .

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Date of entry 01/27/2017

DRAFT DOCUMENT/DELIBERATIVE MATERIAL


Do not d i s semina te ou t side the FBI wit hout the pe r mission of the originato r or program
manager .

Bruce OHR , , currently the


Associate Deputy Attorney General and Director of the Department of
Justi c e ' s Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF ) was
interviewed at FBI Headquarters , 935 Pe n nsylvania Ave . , Washing ton , DC .
After being advised of the ide n tity of the inte r viewing Special Agents and
the nature of the interview , OHR provided the following information :

On January 24 , 2017 , OHR received a WhatsApp notification from


Christopher Steele . On January 25 , 2017 , Steele con tacted and spoke with
OHR via WhatsApp . During this conversation , Steele again relayed his
concerns regarding the safet y of his employee . Due to the possibility of
the employee ' s identity being e x posed by the media , the employee had ' went
to ground ' but rece n tly ' semi- emerged ' (NF!) i ndicating Steele could
establish contact . Steele ' s concern was exacerbated by add itional media
reporting on

Steele re- iterated to OHR the employee was an "absolute gem ."
Steele would attempt contact with the employee on January 201 7 to "see
where he is ." After Steele spoke with the employee , Steele would re-co ntac t
OHR .

OHR took notes d u ring the conta c t with Steele to pre s erve his
memory and referred t o them during the interview . OHR ' s notes are an
attachment to this doc ument .

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DRAFT DOCUMENT/DELIBERATIVE MATERIAL


Do not dissemi nate outside the FBI without the permission of the originator or program
manager .

Bruce OHR , , currently the


Ass oci ate Deputy Attorney General and Director of the Department of
Justice ' s Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) was
interviewed at FBI Headquarters , 935 Pennsylvania Ave ., Washington, DC .
After being advised of the identity of the interviewing Special Agents and
the nature of the interview, OHR provided the following information :

On January 27 , 2017, OHR received a WhatsApp notification from


Christopher Steele indicating Steele ' s employee was alright and Steele
would like to keep the line of communication open with OHR for future
contact . OHR replied in the affirmative .

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Date of entry 02/08/2017

DRAFT DOCUMENT/DELIBERATIVE MATERIAL


Do not dis s emi n ate outs ide the FBI without the permission of the originator or p rog r a m
mana g er .

Bruce OHR , , currently the


Associate Deputy Attorney Gene r al and Director of the Department of
Justice ' s Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF ) was
interviewed at FBI Headquarters , 935 Pennsylvania Ave. , Washingto n , DC .
After being advised of the identity o f the interviewing Special Agents and
the nature of the interview , OHR provided the following information :

OHR stated he had been contacted by Christopher Steele , via


WhatsApp, on January 31 , 2 0 17 . On January 30 , 2017, the Trump
Administration fired Acting Attorney General Sally Q. Yates and Steele had
contacted OHR to determine if OHR anticipated being fired as well and , if
so , who in the Department of Justice could he continue to reach out to.
OHR added that he had previously explained to Steele at some p o int , his
contact with the U.S . Government would have to involve the FBI.
Interviewing agents asked OHR t o ask Steele if he would be comfo rtable
getting the name of an FBI agent.

OHR advised Kathleen Kavalec , Deputy Assistant Secretary,


Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs , U. S . Department of State would be
meeting representatives in order to discuss p o tential Russian
influence in their upcoming Presidential elections . OHR reminded the
interviewing agents Kavalec did speak with Steele several times p r ior to
the 2016 US Presidential ele c tion and believed Steele's reporting to have
generated from mainly one s o urce .

OHR also advised , an attorney representing


, explained his client felt
were recently complicated by the FBI, who he

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FD-302a (Rev 05-08-10)

Interview of Bruce Ohr 06


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2017 . . On. 02/06/2017 Pa11.e 2 of 2
relt vie wed hiffi as a er1ffi1Aal. in f orffied ' UHR t ha t would
like to ' clean things up ' and felt the circumstances surrounding the 2016
US Presidential election had become ' too emotional . ' OHR stated , as he
understood it , was informed of what was required during the FBI
interview .

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Do not di ssemi nate ou tsid e the FBI without t he permission of t he origi nator o r program
ma nager .

Bru ce OHR , , currently the


Associate Deputy Attorney General and Director of the Department of
Justice ' s Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF ) was
interviewed at FBI Headquarters , 935 Penns y lvania Ave ., Washington , DC .
After being advised of the identity of the interviewing Special Agents and
the nature of the interview , OHR pro vided the foll o wing i nformation :

OHR stated he h ad been c o ntacted by Christoph er Steele , via


WhatsApp and OHR responded via FaceTime on 02 / 11/2017 .

Steele advised OHR that his contact was still doing we l l and
he was going to continue to monitor his situation .

St e ele ' s company is continuing to work for both


, another attorney for ,
Ho wever , OHR explained Steele is beginning to wo rry about his
business and was preparing a report on Edward Snowden to broker a business
relati o nship with the FBI . Steele advised OHR , ' Yo u may see me re - emerge
in a couple of weeks .'

OHR responded he had yet to ask Steele if he would like to


be provided with an FBI contact .

OHR also advised Steele ' s fa mily was doing fine , but were
still a bit " freaked out ." However , it seemed to Stee l e that things were
calming down and he was pleased about a recent CNN article that stated U. S .

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dossier .

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Date of entry 04/04/2017

DRAFT DOCUMENT/DELIBERATIVE MATERIAL


Do not disseminate outside the FBI without the permi s sion of t he originator or pr ogram
manager .

Bruce OHR , , currently


the Associate Deputy Attorney General and Director of the Department of
Justice ' s Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Fo rce (OCDETF) was
interviewed at FBI Headquarters, 935 Pe nnsylvania Ave . , Washington, DC .
After being advised of the identity of the interviewing Special Agents and
the nature o f the interview , OHR pro vided the following information:

OHR stated he had recently been contacted by Christopher


Steele on three separate occasions via WhatsApp or FaceTime . On 12 March
2017, Steele t o ld OHR he was concerned about receiving a letter from
Senator Grassley asking Steele to disclose additional details regarding
the dossier Steele compiled on Donald J . Trump. Steele also expressed
concern about the well - being of o ne of his previous employees who was
instrumental in obtaining the information published in the dossier .

On 15 March 2017 , Steele told OHR if asked, Steele would


tell the investigating congressional committees what he could about the
dossier , but Steele must protect the sources and methods used to collect
the information .

On 26 March 2017 , Steele told OHR he expected a letter fr om


the congressi o nal committee investigation at any moment. Steele was aware
that Glen Simpson has already revived suc h a letter . Steele further told
OHR that an attorney representing
,
and was in contact with Steele . Steele noted since he resided in

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FD-302a (Rev 05-08- 10)

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Date of entry 05/10/2017

On 5/8/2017 ,
interviewed BRUCE OHR , , currently the
Associate Deputy Attorney General and Director of the Department of
Justice ' s Organized Crime and Drug En forcement Task Force (OCDETF) at FBI
Was h i n gton Field Of fice , 601 4t h Street , Washington , DC . After being
advised of the identity of the interviewing agents and the natur e of the
interview , OHR provided the follo wing information :

OHR and STE ELE communicated via te x t message in WhatsApp and


arra nged a call for 5/3/2017 at 8 : 00 AM . STEELE told OHR that business
was good .

STEELE had been worried about Director Corney ' s upcoming


testimony to congress , especially his response to questions that would be
raised by Representative Grassley . STEELE was specifically concerned
about anything Director Corney would say that mig ht expose a sensitive
source . STEELE was happy with Director Corney ' s response .

In a previous conversation , STEELE had expressed concern for


the well-being of a source . STEELE des c ribed the curren t disposition of
this sour c e as " stable " .

STEELE in f ormed OHR that the disclosure laws in the UK were


more narrow than in the United States and therefore limited his ability to
testify before Congress . STEELE cited specificall y that he was restricted
from .

was a former and had been on the staff


of the . At the time of the interview ,

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FD-302a (Rev 05-08-1 0)

Interview of Bruce Ohr 8 May 05/08


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GLENN SIMPSON of FUSION - GPS and would be visiting STEELE
soon and were in the process of " lawyering up " (NFI) .

JONAT HAN WINER was bringing over a letter separately (NFI) .

STEELE was interest ed in working with the FBI and had


additional information if the FBI was interested .

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Dale of entry 05 / 12/2017

On 5/12/2017 ,
interviewed BRUCE OHR , , currently the
Associate Deputy Attorney General and Director of the Department of
Justice ' s Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) at FBI
Washington Field Office, 601 4th Street , Washington , DC . After being
advised of the identity of the interviewing agents and the nature of the
interview , OHR provided the following information :

STEELE sent OHR a text message in WhatsApp some time around


Tuesday and they set up a call via WhatsApp for Wednesday 2 : 00 PM EST .

Over the course of their telephone call , STEELE informed OHR


that he had received a letter from the Senate Inte l ligence Committee
(SIC) . The letter requested answers to the following questions :

1. Had STEELE provided information to the US Government?


2. What was the scope of STEELE ' s investigation?
3. Did STEELE have any additional information to provide?

STEELE mentioned that SIC was considering sending staffers to


the UK .

SSA requested that OHR ask STEELE if he would be willing


to have a conversation with FBI agents in the UK . OHR agreed to pass
along the message .

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Date of entry 05/16/2017

On 5/15/2017 ,
interviewed BRUCE OHR , , currently the
Associate Deputy Attorney General and Director of the Department of
Justice ' s Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) at FBI
Washington Field Office , 601 4th Street, Washington , DC . After being
advised of the identity of the interviewing agents and the nature of the
interview , OHR provided the following information :

CHRISTOPHER STEELE sent OHR a text message in WhatsApp on or


around Friday , 5/12/2017 . The two set up a call via WhatsApp for Saturday
at 9 : 00 AM EST.

Per FBI ' s previous request , OHR asked STEELE if he would be


willing to meet with FBI agents . STEELE responded that the answer was an
immediate yes but that he would need to check with his business partner
. OHR was clear that this would be nothing more
than a conversation with the FBI and STEELE said that would be alright .

STEELE informed OHR that he had information regarding a


conversation between .

STEELE contacted OHR via Whatsapp at 9 : 45 AM on Monday , 5/15


/2017 . STEELE said and his business partner were both ok
with him talking to the FBI .

SSA told OHR that he would communicate with headquarters


regarding FBI agents meeting with STEELE and let him know when he received
a response.

Washington , District Of Columbia , United States (In


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