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From Interview of Supervisory Intelligence Analyst, Thursday, October 29, 2020, pages 88-91:

 

Mr. Somers is the majority chief investigative counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee

 

Mr. Somers: Okay. And then back to this Footnote 350, the declassified version of it, on February 27, 2017, were you aware that an intelligence community report contained information about an individual with reported connections to Trump and Russia who claimed that the public reporting about the details of Trump's sexual activities in Moscow during a trip in 2013 were false and that they were the product of Russian intelligence service's "infiltrating a source into the network of [redacted] who compiled a dossier on that individual on Trump's activities"?

ANALYST: Yes, I believe I was aware of that at the time.

 

Mr. Somers: At the time, okay. Were you aware of the March 2017 human source validation review of Steele that found that his "past contributions to the FBI's criminal program had been minimally corroborated"?

ANALYST: I believe I had received that report around that time.

 

Mr. Somers: Were you, I don't know if you were either aware of, well, I'll first ask it this way: Were you aware of the primary sub-source's March interview with the FBI?

ANALYST: I was aware of it, but I won't be able to say exactly when I was aware of it.

 

Mr. Somers: Okay. But you were not a part of that interview?

ANALYST: Correct.

 

Mr. Somers: Were you aware that during that interview the primary sub-source stated that he never expected Steele to put the primary sub-source's statements in reports or present them as facts?

ANALYST: I believe I was aware of that, but, again, I wouldn't be able to tell you exactly when I was aware of that.

 

Mr. Somers: Do you know if you were aware of that before the final Carter Page FISA application was submitted?

ANALYST: I would estimate it probably was before, but, again, I don't have a clear recollection.

 

Mr. Somers: Okay. Do you recall learning that the primary sub-source said that the statements were "word of mouth and hearsay"; "conversations…had with friends over beers"; or were statements "made in jest" that should be taken with "a grain of salt"?

ANALYST: Is that a quote from the –

 

Mr. Somers: It's a quote from the IG report, from the Washington Field Office agent who took that March interview.

ANALYST: Again, I think I was aware of that reporting, but I wouldn't be able to tell you exactly when specifically I was aware of that reporting.

 

Mr. Somers: Do you think it was prior to the final Carter Page FISA application being submitted?

ANALYST: It could have been, but, again, I don't have a clear recollection.

 

Mr. Somers: Did the primary sub-source express any sentiments like that during your 3-day interview with him?

ANALYST: Not to my recollection.