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Informal memorandum Date: August 29, 2003 Prepared by: John Roth Re: Meeting with Treasury POC On August 28, 2003, John Roth and Doug Greenburg met with Tom McGivern, the Treasury POC, to discuss the three outstanding document requests we have with Treasury. With regard to FinCEN, the request is substantially complete. In response to a question, McGivern stated that there may be more information regarding request 5, depending on whether you interpret documents that involved terrorist financing in general as being "alQaeda" related. I explained that the great majority of terrorist financing activity involves al-Qaeda, and the wording of the request was merely to avoid having Treasury search for materials related to HAMAS or the FARC, for example. He agreed with that interpretation. With regard to item number 2, (the PCC materials) McGivern was under the impression that we would get those materials from our request from the NSC. For that reason, he did not exclude them and present them to the white house for decision, as is done for other issues. I told him I did not believe that the EOP requests covered this material, so I asked him to pull the materials and make a decision regarding it. With regard to the OFAC request, he acknowledged that almost nothing has been produced. Thus far we have the unclassified administrative record of GRF and BBF, but no other designations, and no other responsive documents. I stressed that the most important documents were the classified designation memoranda for the entities listed in 8, as well as the trip reports, etc of OFAC's trips to the Middle East, particularly pre9/11. He stated that much material had been pulled and was in the process of being reviewed, and that OFAC was pretty over-inclusive in the amount of material pulled. He promised a delivery of material today (8/29/03), which would be responsive to many of our priority items. With regard to the main Treasury request, we have received a number of responsive documents. He indicated that when the office of enforcement was abolished, there was no thought given to record retention. Thus, those files are "a mess." He has approximately 30 boxes he is going through by hand, to see if there are any documents that are responsive. We offered to go on site and assist in the search, and to examine and tab documents which may be responsive to our request, in order to facilitate things. He stated that we should examine the documents we will get today, and then see whether that will be necessary.

As an aside, Tom indicated that he had been hospitalized for pneumonia and had been out of work for several weeks. No one else had been able to pick up the slack, which explains some of the delay.

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03007173

Implementation of UN instruments / OFAC

10066-10076

09/05/03

RTR

1,2,3

03007174

Combating Terrorism: United Nations Security Council Actions and US Designations of Terrorist Entities and Individuals

10077-10147

09/05/03

RTR

1,2,3

03007175

Trip Report Interagency Delegation to UAE Al Barakaat Investigation November 10-1 5, 2001 10148-10175

09/05/03

RTR

1,2,3

03007176

Albania Trip

10176-10220

09/05/03

RTR

1,2,3

03007177

Taliban control over Kabul

100221-10244

09/05/03

RTR

1,2,3

03007178

Additional Specially Designated Nationals of the Taliban

10245-10298

09/05/03

RTR

1,2,3

03007179

Specially Designated Nationals of the Taliban

10299-10373

09/05/03

RTR

1,2,3

03007180

Carmen bin Ladin, Yeslam bin Ladin, Usama bin Ladin

10374-10381

09/05/03

RTR

1,2,3

03007181

Sheikh Yeslam M. Binladin

10382-10393

09/05/03

RTR

1,2,3

03007182

Abdul Rahman Yasin

10394-10504

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Letters to the President from the Secretary of Treasury regarding the International Emergency Economic Powers Act

09/05/03

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09/05/03

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09/05/03

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030071 84B

Additional $220 Million in Terrorist Assets Frozen

09/05/03

RTR

030071 84C

Ecevit's Health and Turkish Equities in the War Against

09/05/03

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030071 84D

Meeting with Prime Minister Ecevit of Turkey

09/05/03

RTR

030071 84E

Deputies Meeting on Central Asia and the Caucasus

09/05/03

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030071 84F

Briefing Material for meeting with Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States Prince Bandar Bin Sultan

09/05/03

RTR

030071 84G

Deputies Meeting on Russia: Moscow Summit

09/05/03

RTR

030071 84H

Malaysia's Internal Security Act

09/05/03

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03007183

030071 84A

030071841

Bilateral Meetings at February 8-9 G-7 Meeting in Ottawa

Overview of US-EU Relations: The Danish Presidency Political Backdrop to the European Bilaterals on the margins of the WB/IMF Annual meetings

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Office of Foreign Assets Control - Department of Defense Collaboration on Combating Terrorism

09/05/03

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030071 84K

Meeting with US Ambassador to Japan Howard Baker

09/05/03

RTR

030071 84L

Meeting with Hamid Karzai, Chairman, Afghan Interim Authority (AIA)

09/05/03

RTR

03007185

Middle East Trip Report January 10-23, 2002 Classified Material attached

10064

09/05/03

RTR

03007186

Albanian Trip Report February 17-26, 2003 Classified Material attached

10065

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY W A S H I N G T O N D.C., 2 0 2 2 0

October 8, 2003 Mr. Phillip D. Zelikow Executive Director Daniel Marcus, Esq. General Counsel National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States 301 7th Street, SW, Room 5125 Washington, DC 204C7 Gentlemen: This is a follow-up to my letter to you of September 5, 2003 regarding the Treasury Department's response to your reque;3ts for documents. We have worked closely with Commission staff over the past month, and I am particularly grateful to John Roth of your staff for his assistance as we work to provide relevant, responsive information from Treasury. Based on our review o.7 documents and the Commission's requests to the Department, we believe we have substantially complied with your requests for documents. Because of the unique nature of the Commission's work, and in a spirit of accommodation, this has included extraordinary access to extremely sensitive classified and deliberative documents. However, as I have discussed with Messrs. Marcus, Steve Dunne, and Roth, we are continuing to review documents and may yet find more that are responsive. 1 have assigned another attorney with security clearances to assist us in finishing our review. We will continue to produce any additional responsive documents as soon as possible, and if there are any documents for which we would seek accommodation short of access to the document we will discuss that with you immediately. With respect to the Commission's three separate Commission requests for documents from Treasury, we report the: following: •

As to Document Request 1 for Departmental Offices documents, we have reviewed and provided thousands of pages of responsive documents and will continue to produce any additional documents we discover. Many of these documents are highly classified and many others had to be recalled from storage. Our search also was made more difficult because the files of the former office of the Under Secretary for Enforcement were moved out of the building in March 2003, and there are not detailed indices regarding those records. As to Document Request 2 regarding documents from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), we have reviewed and provided to the Commission all responsive documents.

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As to Document Request 3 for Office of Foreign Assets Control documents, we have reviewed and provided thousands of pages of responsive documents and will continue to produce any additional documents we discover. This includes a great number of highly classified documents that involve third agency material. We are grateful to Mr. Roth for his review at Treasury of highly classified responsive documents and his designation of those that were of greatest significance to the Commission. We very much appreciate the positive working relationship we have with Commission staff and your willingness to provide us guidance as we produce records. The Treasury Department is committed to cooperating with the Commission and completing our document production as soon as possible. Plea.se do not hesitate to call me to discuss any concerns you may have. Sincerely,

Thomas M. McGivem Assistant General Counsel for Legislation, Litigation and Financial Enforcement cc: Steve Dunne John Roth Brian Hook