the previous night. quote, we are ready to engage on what needs to be done. flynn and his business partner then proposed a detailed plan to their turkish government contact. by the second week in august, august 10th, their contact with ties to the turkish government reported back that they had the green light to go ahead with their plan. the turkish government contact sent an e-mail to flynn and his partner saying, quote, i just finished in ankara after several meetings today with turkish minister number 2 and turkish minister number 1. i have a green light to discuss confidentiality, budget, and scope of the contract. and then sure enough, about three weeks after that, mike flynn gets the contract. quote, under the terms of the contract, company a, which is the flynn intelligence group, was to receive a total of $600,000 broken into three $200,000 payments. among the deliverables that mike flynn was expected to produce in exchange for this money, quote, the contract noted company a was supposed to deliver findings and