Just talked to a former senior officer of IBTCI. Again people are a little fuzzy on the details and everyone only has access to that part of the story they were privy to, but this is how he tells it. Townsel was working on a Kyrgyzstan project in Bishkek. Problems came up with how she was handling the finances. An auditor went there to check it out. She didn’t like it. She ended up going to Moscow for a week or so not related to her work for IBTCI in, as he recalls, July 1994. Bolton would have been there at the same time, working on another project, “Healthy Russia 2000.” He would have been working out of that hotel office and it’s possible that Townsel came into that office a few times. So it’s possible that they met there, but there is “no indication in our records that they had met at all.” Then, it came to light that she had written a letter to USAID urging that IBTCI lose its contract with the agency and her firm be hired instead. This caused great consternation at IBTCI. A vice president of the company left Moscow to go to Bishkek to investigate the whole thing. Then, the firm asked Bolton to look into it all and defend the company before USAID. And Bolton traveled to Bishkek to look into it. But this former officer of ICBTC doesn’t think that Bolton would have over-lapped with Townsel in the Moscow hotel at the time he was involved in the investigation of her conduct: “It is difficult for me to understand. It doesn’t make sense.”