On January 15, 2017, three days after his return from Madrid, Manafort emailed K.T. McFarland, who was at that time designated to be Deputy National Security Advisor and was formally appointed to that position on January 20, 945 2017. Manafort’s January 15 email to McFarland stated: “I have some important information I want to share that I picked up on my travels over the last 946 month.” Manafort told the Office that the email referred to an issue regarding Cuba, not Russia or Ukraine, and Manafort had traveled to Cuba in the past 947 month. Either way, McFarland—who was advised by Flynn not to respond to 948 the Manafort inquiry—appears not to have responded to Manafort. Manafort told the Office that around the time of the Presidential Inauguration in January, he met with Kilimnik and Ukrainian oligarch Serhiy 949 Lyovochkin at the Westin Hotel in Alexandria, Virginia. During this meeting, Kilimnik again discussed the Yanukovych peace plan that he had broached at the August 2 meeting and in a detailed December 8, 2016 message found in 950 Kilimnik’s DMP email account. In that December 8 email, which Manafort 951 acknowledged having read, Kilimnik wrote, “[a]ll that is required to start the process is a very minor ‘wink’ (or slight push) from DT”—an apparent reference to President-elect Trump—“and a decision to authorize you to be a ‘special representative’ and manage this process.” Kilimnik assured Manafort, with that authority, he “could start the process and within 10 days visit Russia [Yanukovych] The Office has not uncovered evidence that Manafort br level,” and that “DT could have peace in Ukraine basically within a few months after 952 inauguration.” As noted above, Grand Jury█ █ █ █ █ ██ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ and statements to the Office, Manafort sought to qualify his engagement on and support for the plan. Grand Jury█ █ █ █ █ ██ █ █ █ █ █ 953 █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Grand Jury█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ 954 █ █ Grand Jury █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ 955 █ Grand Jury █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ On February 26, 2017, Manafort met Kilimnik in Madrid, where Kilimnik 956 had flown from Moscow. In his first two interviews with the Office, Manafort denied meeting with Kilimnik on his Madrid trip and then—after being