pan rere COMMITTEE SENSITIVE Sees Wnited States Senate a aaa SELECT comarree on vreLLGENCE February 17, 2017 Mr. Roger Stone Re: Preservation Request Regarding Ongoing Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Investigation into Activities Involving Russia Dear Mr. Stone: The purpose of this letter is to notify you of the Committee’s request that you preserve and retain all hard copies and electronically stored information as specified below in furtherance of the Committee’s ongoing investigation into Russian actions targeting the 2016 U.S. elections and democratic processes globally. This request includes any communications you may have had involving Russian interests, both with respect to your private business matters, and in your personal capacity To ensure that a full and complete record of relevant communications will be produced to the ‘Committee in response to a document request, the Committee requests that you preserve all written and electronically stored information relevant to the Committee’s investigation. This includes, but is not limited to: e-mail, electronic documents, and data (“electronic records”) that can be reasonably anticipated to be subject to a request for production by the Committee. For the purposes of this request, “preserve” means taking reasonable steps to prevent the partial or full destruction, alteration, testing, deletion, shredding, incineration, wiping, relocation, migration, theft, or mutation of electronic records, as well as negligent or intentional handling that would make such records incomplete or inaccessible. This preservation obligation includes a duty to halt any automatic or routine practice to destroy such written or electronic records. COMMITTEE SENSITIVECOMMITTEE SENSITIVE We request that you respond in writing upon receipt of this letter. If you have any questions about this request, please contact either Christopher Joyner, Staff Director, or Mike Casey, Minority Staff Director, at (202) 224-1700. Sincerely, Richard Burr MM. Mark R. Wamer Chairman Vice Chairman COMMITTEE SENSITIVE,