The IP investigation has identified a role played by FSB Blokhin and two other unidentified persons from the FSB in the operations of both the Moscow and the Sochi laboratories. The FSB role is not interference and control, like that of the Deputy Minister of Sport, but assistance in arranging and operating the State sponsored system of sample swapping that occurred in connection with: the 2013 University Games and IAAF Championships, the Sochi laboratory and in the lead up to the WADA seizure of samples in December 2014. Dr. Rodchenkov was stitched into the FSB structure in furtherance of the FSB assistance to the laboratories. Dr. Rodchenkov informed the IP during a face to face interview that when he became the Director of the Moscow Laboratory he signed a document which made him an FSB agent code name "KUTS". He was responsible for reporting everything to his FSB superior from which the reporting would go up the chain of command to an FSB General. The FSB agent who most regularly visited the Moscow Laboratory was Officer Blokhin. FSB Blokhin was under a different FSB chain of command structure than Dr. Rodchenkov. Dr. Rodchenkov's evidence is that FSB Blokhin was very involved in collecting sample bottles and caps of bottles from the Moscow laboratory. This was all part of the FSB's work to develop a methodology for removing the caps on urine sample bottles described in Chapter 5.
The IP investigation has identified a role played by FSB Blokhin and two other unidentified persons from the FSB in the operations of both the Moscow and the Sochi laboratories. The FSB role is not interference and control, like that of the Deputy Minister of Sport, but assistance in arranging and operating the State sponsored system of sample swapping that occurred in connection with: the 2013 University Games and IAAF Championships, the Sochi laboratory and in the lead up to the WADA seizure of samples in December 2014. Dr. Rodchenkov was stitched into the FSB structure in furtherance of the FSB assistance to the laboratories. Dr. Rodchenkov informed the IP during a face to face interview that when he became the Director of the Moscow Laboratory he signed a document which made him an FSB agent code name "KUTS". He was responsible for reporting everything to his FSB superior from which the reporting would go up the chain of command to an FSB General. The FSB agent who most regularly visited the Moscow Laboratory was Officer Blokhin. FSB Blokhin was under a different FSB chain of command structure than Dr. Rodchenkov. Dr. Rodchenkov's evidence is that FSB Blokhin was very involved in collecting sample bottles and caps of bottles from the Moscow laboratory. This was all part of the FSB's work to develop a methodology for removing the caps on urine sample bottles described in Chapter 5.
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