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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
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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employee if the effployee's Aaffie was released to the media . Steele stated if
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 , xxxxx whom Steele identified as xxxxxx 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 .