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VISIT OF STAFFDEL FROM THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON TERRORIST ATTACKS UPON THE UNITED STATES TO GERMANY FEBRUARY 13 - 20, 2004 Friday. February 13 11:30 am

Rajesh De and Michael Jacobson arrive Berlin Tegel Airport on BA 982. (Met by Global Affairs Caroline Sheldon).

12:15 pm

Arrive at Hotel Westin Grand. fl^t*.^' Saturday. February 14 5:45 pm

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Arrival of Dieter Snell and Hvon Kim at Berlin Tegel Airport. (Metbyl

6:30 pm

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Arrive at Hotel Westin Grand.

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Depart hotel for Chancery.

8:30 am

Meeting with Legal Attache Office official.

9:45 am

Depart Chancery for Interior Ministry.

10:00 am

Meeting with German officials at Interior Ministry. (See attached for participants) I

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12:00 pm

Working lunch hosted by Interior Ministry.

2:00 pm

Meeting with German law enforcement officials (continued if necessary).

4:00 pm

Open.

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7:45 am

Depart hotel for Bahnhof Zoo train station.

8:25 am

Depart on Intercity Express train for Hamburg.

10:45 am

Arrive Hamburg.

11:00 am

Tour of 9/11-related sites and lunch hosted by Hamburg authorities.

5:00 pm

Interview with journalists (tentative).

6:45 pm

Depart Hamburg on Intercity Express train for Berlin (tentative).

9:30 pm

Arrive Berlin Bahnhof Zoo station (tentative).

10:00 pm

Arrive hotel (tentative).

Wednesday. February 18 ^ (fsau^x ^r <=*:ty,\ &«r^ "~ I > 9:00 am Depart hotel for Chancery. 9:15 am

Courtesy call with Ambassador Coats.

9:45 am

Depart Chancery for Ministry of Justice.

10:00 am

Meeting with German officials at MOJ. (See attached for participants) 9/11 Working-level Employee

12:00 pm

Working lunch hosted by Justice Ministry.

2:00 pm

Meeting with Justice officials (continued as necessary).

5:00 pm

Meeting with victims' attorneys Andreas Schulz and Ulrich von Jeinsen (venue: tbd).

Thursday. February 19 8:30 am

Mr. Jacobson and Ms. Kim depart for Tegel Airport.

10:10 am

Mr. Jacobson departs Tegel via UA 8969 to Frankfurt.

12:25 pm

Ms. Kim departs Tegel via BA 983 to London.

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Friday, February 20 11:00 am

Messrs Snell and De depart hotel for Berlin Tegel Airport.

12:30 pm

Messrs Snell and De depart Tegel via LH185 to Frankfurt.

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FOCUS - 6 of 6 DOCUMENTS Copyright 2001 The Washington Post The Washington Post ptember 23, 2001 Sunday Final Edition

SECTION: A SECTION; Pg. A25 LENGTH: 940 words HEADLINE: Germans Probe Likely Links Between Profits and Terrorists BYLINE: William Drozdiak, Washington Post Foreign Service DATELINE: BRUSSELS Sept. 22 BODY: The president of Germany's central bank said today there was mounting evidence that people connected to the attacks in New York and Washington sought to profit from the tragedy by engaging in "terrorism insider trading" on Europejmstpck and commodity markets. ' T v ,, Ernst Weltekey head of the Bundesbank, said a preliminary review by German regulators and bank researchers showed there wereJughly-suspioieutLsales of shares in airlines and insurance companies, along with major trades in gold and oil markets, before Sept. 11 that suggest they were conducted with advance knowledge of theattacks. Welteke said his researchers came across what he considers almost irrefutable proof of insider trading as recently as Thursday, but he refused to release details pending further consultations witlrregulators in other countries. "What we found makes us sure that people connected to the terrorists must have been trying to profit from this tragedy," he said at a meeting of European finance ministers and central bankers. Besides massive short selling of airlines and insurance stocks, Welteke said "there was a fundamentally inexplicable rise" in world oil prices just before the attacks that suggest certain groups or people were buying oil contracts that were then sold for a much higher price. He said German researchers also detected movements in gold markets "which need explaining." "If you look at the movements in markets before and after the attacks, it really makes your brow furrow," Welteke said. "It is extremely difficult to really verify it, but we are confident we will be able to pinpoint the source in at least one or two cases." The comments by the central bank chief of Europe's biggest economy were the first public confirmation that regulators were close to proving that groups linked to the U.S. attacks sought to exploit their advance knowledge through trades in international markets. Welteke's announcement stunned the finance ministers and central bankers, who met in the eastern Belgian city of Liege this weekend to discuss plans to introduce the first notes and coins of the euro, which will go into circulation in 12 European countries at the end of the year. Then- agenda was dominated instead by economic fallout from the attacks. They agreed on an emergency plan to help European airlines pay for insurance, averting a possible shutdown by European airlines on Monday. While ruling out direct government aid, banned under EU rules, finance ministers agreed to allow governments to act as guarantors for the airlines for at least a month, Bloomberg News reported.

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Didier Reynders of Belgium, the current chairman of the EU finance ministers, said other EU countries were investigating their stock and commodity markets to identify any suspicious trades made before Sept. 11. European regulators are known to be studying the stock movements of three large reinsurance companies in Germany, France and Switzerland to see if their sharp drops in value were related to block trading in the four days preceding the attacks. Reinsurance companies provide coverage for losses by insurers and could be saddled with enormous costs from the attacks. European agencies have been working closely with the Securities and Exchange Commission in their inquiries, which include stock movements of the French insurer AXA and Switzerland's Swiss Re. Ettore Candolfi, a board member of the Swiss stock exchange, said a preliminary review showed several large block trades in Swiss Re of up to 16,000 shares in the four days before the attacks. German regulators said they were paying particularly close attention to "suspect movements" in the stock of Munich Rethe largest reinsurance company in the world, that estimates its losses from death and destruction at the World Trade Center will exceed $ 2 billion. In the four days before the attacks, the stock lost 13 percent of its value. Financial authorities in Europe said their scrutiny of suspicious stock sales formed part of a broader inquiry into the global financial dealings of Osama bin Laden, who is widely suspected as the mastermind of the terror attacks. Swiss prosecutors also are focusing their attention on an investment bank in Lugano called Al Taqwa, which means "fear of God" in Arabic. Swiss police suspect it may have handled important transactions for bin Laden, but they have not been able to find conclusive proof of links to terrorist plots. As the United States ponders military retaliation, U.S. and European officials said a major international campaign was being mobilized on several continents to expose Bin Laden's financial transactions. The German newsweekly Der Spiegel quoted Luxembourg justice authorities today as saying they were probing a cash transfer worth about $ 5 million that provides clues "which could go straight to the economic center of Osama bin Laden's terror empire." The Italian government is looking into reports that bin Laden channeled funds through brokerage houses in Milan to speculate on international financial markets. Elsewhere in Europe today, Belgian police arrested two men and seized a large quantity of chemicals in an action linked to the recent arrest of Islamic militants, a spokeswoman for the Brussels prosecutor's office said. Belgian media reported that the chemicals could have been used to make a bomb, and that the arrests foiled a "terrorist" plot. In London, a 29-year-old man, one of four people arrested Friday by anti-terrorist police in connection with the attacks on the World Trade Center, was released from custody, Scotland Yard said, declining to provide further information. LOAD-DATE: September 23, 2001

15 of 127 DOCUMENTS Copyright 2001 CBS Wordlwide Inc. All Rights Reserved CBS News Transcripts SHOW: CBS Morning News (6:30 AM ET) - CBS September 27, 2001 Thursday

TYPE: Newscast LENGTH: 470 words HEADLINE: Unusual stock trading and profiting may be linked to the terror attacks ANCHORS: JULIE CHEN REPORTERS: SHARYL ATTKISSON BODY: JULIE CHEN, anchor: One part of the terrorist attack investigation is focusing on some unusual activity in the stock market. Sharyl Attkisson is on the money trail. SHARYL ATTKISSON reporting: Sources say US investigators are making headway in tracking down suspicious stock trades made just before the attacks. Overseas, some investigators have already concluded that the terrorists, or their supporters who knew what was coming, executed sophisticated, precise financial transactions to profit from the fallout. Mr. WILLIAM McLUCAS (Former SEC Enforcement Director): It's a horrific notion to conceive of, but it is not at all ou-out of the question. It sounds like something we'd read in a Ludlum novel, and unfortunately, I think it may well have taken place. ATTKISSON: In the US, the probe has widened to include trading in Morgan Stanley Dean Witter stock, a brokerage that had 3,500 employees in the World Trade Center. Also stock in other brokerage firms which stood to suffer losses in the attack: Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and Bear Stearns. The airlines that had planes hijacked are also a key focus. There was extraordinary trading in stock options betting that American and United stock prices would fall, and soon. For example, United saw a surge five days before the attack involving 200,000 shares; people counting on the stock to plummet. Until then, the total number of such trades was for just 2,700 shares. (Graphic on screen) Suspicious Stock Trades Counting on Stock's Fall United Airlines On Sept. 6 200,000 Shares Before Sept. 6 2,700 Shares ATTKISSON: With American, the unexplained rise came the day before the attack.

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(Graphic on screen) Suspicious Stock Trades Counting on Stock's Fall American Airlines On Sept. 10 150,000 Shares Before Sept. 10 30,000 Shares ATTKISSON: US authorities aren't yet saying where the trail is leading, but officials in Germany have gone public, saying they're now certain that people connected to the terrorists were involved in shady trades there. Mr. ERNST WELTEKE (President, Bundesbank): (German spoken) ATTKISSON: 'We have found movement that could not have been accidental in nature,' says the head of Germany's central bank. He's talking about stock in insurance giants Munich Re and Swiss Re. Days before the attack, trading in each was double normal levels. Each company lost billions in the disaster. Altogether, at least seven countries are dissecting suspicious trades that may have netted more than $ 100 million in profits. Sometimes the money trail runs cold if it leads to offshore tax havens. But investigators now believe that in this climate, even the most secretive banks will hand over information to expose the most devious kind of insider trading. Sharyl Attkisson, CBS News, Washington. LOAD-DATE: January 31, 2002

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SECTION: Pg. 4 LENGTH: 729 words HEADLINE: Bin Laden 'raid on themarkets' doesn't add up BYLINE: Ben Laurance BODY: THIS was the story to match the spirit of the times. Osama Bin Laden, the evil genius behind the terrorist attacks of September 11, was not content with bringing mayhem to Manhattan and Washington. He and his allies and note that it is never made clear where the limits of that circle of allies should be drawn also sought to profit from their terrorism. The cynicism of it all was appalling a willingness to make money out of the death of thousands plus, of course, the chilling prospect that profits would be ploughed back into the coffers of Bin Laden's organisation to finance yet more attacks against the people, buildings and organisations he hated. Hence, last weekend, newspapers were full of reports about the concerns of authorities on both sides of the Atlantic that there had been suspiciously large amounts of shortselling of shares (in effect, selling shares you don't really own in order to profit from a future fall in their price) ahead of the attacks. These trades, it was said, were so significant, so cleverly timed that they must have been carried out with inside knowledge. And the only people with the knowledge that the Pentagon and World Trade Centre were going to be attacked that fateful day were the hijackers and their associates. The FBI let the world know that it certainly believed the theory. Ernst Welteke, president of the Bundesbank a man, let's face it, who has pretty limited career prospects with the introduction of the euro gave the story further credibility when he said that, yes, 'the suspicion is that there have been noticeable market movements ahead of the attacks'. And to add spice to this dish, promoters of the insider-dealing theory pointedly remarked that there had been sudden bursts of activity in the market for options on airline shares ahead of September 11. In particular, there had been an upsurge in sales of 'put' options bets on a fall in share prices. By the start of last week, authorities in America, Canada, Britain, Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy and Japan were all combing records of deals in shares and options in search of dealers who had known too much. And what have they come up with? In London, those splendid folk at the Financial Services Authority have burrowed around in the paperwork to see if there was anything rum going on ahead of September 11.

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As we report today, they have uncovered fascinating information about Lufthansa's activity in BA put options. You may well think this was a strange thing for an airline to do albeit profitable, given that BA shares have fallen from 264p on the eve of the hijacks to below 180p. But even Lufthansa's worst enemy wouldn't suggest that the Germans had prior knowledge of the attacks in America. And despite all its efforts, the FSA has found nothing to suggest that people who were short-selling shares or buying put options before the attacks were doing anything fishy. Put bluntly, there was not one jot of evidence that Bin Laden and his evil acolytes had been anywhere near the stock markets. And elsewhere? From the US, as well as the other countries that were meant to be investigating the FBI's suspicions, there is a deafening silence. In the current climate, silence is highly significant. If the US had indeed found evidence of terrorist involvement in share sales, wouldn't George W. have told us all about it? Choose the right options contracts, choose the right period over which to study the period of trades and, yes, you can just about construct a case to suggest that some dealers discovered a curiously vigorous desire to sell shares in airlines in the days before the attacks. BA put options saw an upsurge in activity. So did those in KLM, United and American Airlines. BUT trade in options is always very irregular. There have been spikes in activity before that have had nothing to do with anticipated terrorism. And even before September 11 there was much speculation about the fragility of airlines' finances good reason for canny investors to guard against the likelihood of the airline sector falling out of bed. No one needed Osama Bin Laden or his friends to warn of tough times ahead. Anyway, if terrorist associates had been clodhopping around the options market, how would they have collected their winnings without revealing themselves? LOAD-DATE: October 2, 2001

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Ambassador Coats - Biography

Daniel R. Coats U.S. Ambassador to Germany Daniel R. Coats was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany on August 15, 2001. A former member of Congress, Ambassador Coats represented the state of Indiana in the U.S. Senate from 1989 to 1999, and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1981 to 1988. On retirement from the U.S. Senate in 1999, Ambassador Coats joined former Senate Majority Leaders Bob Dole and George Mitchell as Special Counsel with the Washington law firm of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand. Download Photo

Before his election to the U.S. Congress, Ambassador Coats served as Indiana Director for then Congressman Dan Quayle, from 1977-1980. Prior to his career in politics, he was Assistant Vice President of a Fort Wayne, Indiana, life insurance company. Ambassador Coats served in the U.S. Army from 1966-68. 72 dpi (jpg) I 300 dpi (jpg)

As Senator, Ambassador Coats was a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, serving as Chairman of the Military Personnel and Air/Land Forces Subcommittees. He also served on the Senate Select Committee for Intelligence and the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee. In the Senate, he joined with Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman in advocating and authorizing a number of defense reform and transformation initiatives. Ambassador Coats is the author of The Project for American Renewal and Mending Fences: Renewing Justice Between Government and Civil Society. He is a past President of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, and has served on a number of boards, and civic and volunteer organizations, including the Center for Jewish and Christian Values, which he co-chaired with Senator Lieberman. Ambassador Coats is a graduate of Wheaton College and holds a juris doctor degree from Indiana University School of Law, where he was Associate Editor of the Law Review. He holds three honorary doctoral degrees. Ambassador Coats (60) has been married for 37 years to the former Marsha Ann Crawford. Mrs. Coats is a graduate of Wheaton College and holds a Masters of Science degree in Clinical Counseling from Johns Hopkins University. The Coats have three grown children and three grandchildren. Their interests include golf, tennis, singing in their church choir, and spending time with their family.

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Germany - 6/5/03

Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments Last Updated: 6/5/03 Germany President ||Rau, Johannes Chancellor [Schroeder, Gerhard Vice Chancellor Fischer, Joschka Min. of Consumer Protection, Food, & Agriculture JKuenast, Renate Min. of Defense [Struck, Peter Min. for Economic Cooperation & Development |Wieczorek-Zeul, Heidemarie Min. for Economics & Labor [Clement, Wolfgang Min. for Education & Research JBulmahn, Edelgard Min. for the Environment, Nature Conservation, & Nuclear Security||Trittin, Juergen Min. for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women, & Youth ||Schmidt, Renate Min. of Finance ||Eichel, Hans Min. of Foreign Affairs [Fischer, Joschka Min. for Health & Social Security jSchmidt. Ulla Min. of the Interior ||SchiIy, Otto Min. of Justice [Zypries, Brigitte Min. for Transportation & Construction jstolpe, Manfred [Pres. , German Federal Bank [Welteke, Ernst [Ambassador to the US [ischinger, Wolfgang [Permanent Representative to the UN, New York (Pleuger, Gunter Chiefs of State Home

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