“ Barbara Ledeen and Peter Smith were among the people contacted by Flynn.
Ledeen, a long-time Senate staffer Who had previously sought the Clinton emails, provided updates to
active in Republican politics, also attempted to locate and obtain the deleted Clinton emails.267 Ledeen
17 302, at 7-8. 267 Flynn 11/29/17 302, at 7. “ 2“ Szobocsan 3/29/17 302, at 1. 269 12/3/15 Email, Ledeen
to Smith. 27° 12/3/15 Email, Ledeen to Smith (attachment). 62
wrote, “we can discuss to whom it should be referred.”271 On December 16, 2015, Smith informed Ledeen
In September 2016, Smith and Ledeen got back in touch with each other about their respective efforts.
Ledeen wrote to Smith, “wondering if you had some more detailed reports or memos or other data you could
marry it against the new data we have found and then could share it back to you ‘your eyes only.”’232 Ledeen
Ledeen wanted to authenticate the emails and solicited Contributions to fund that effort.
Email, Smith to Flynn et al.; 8/28/16 Email, Smith to Smith (bcc: Clovis et al.). 232 9/16/16 Email, Ledeen
.287 The investigation did not establish that Smith was in contact with Russian hackers or that Smith, Ledeen
about the sanctions until he had heard from the team at Mar~a~Lago.1241 He first spoke with Michael Ledeen
° SF000001 (12/29/16 Text Message, Flynn to Flaherty). 12‘” Flynn 11/20/17 302, at 3. 1242 Michael Ledeen
is married to Barbara Ledeen, the Senate staffer whose 2016 efforts to locate Hillary Clinton’s missing
described in Volume 1, Section III.D.2, supra. 1243 Flynn 11/17/17 302, at 3; Call Records of Michael Ledeen
Krickovic, Andrej Krylova, Aleksandra Kushner, Jared Kuznetsov, Sergey Landrum, Pete Lavrov, Sergey Ledeen
, Barbara Ledeen, Michael Ledgett, Richard Lewandowski, Corey Luff, Sandra Lyovochkin, Serhiy Magnitsky
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