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RG: 148
Box: 00003 Folder: 0007 Document: 25
Series: Dan Marcus Files
Copies: 1 Pages: 5
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Informal memorandum
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 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 pre-
9/11. 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.
r Date Date of
Document
Request /
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Agency ID
Logged Item Type ltem# Doc# From To Subject Number
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 030071 84A Bilateral Meetings at February 8-9 G-7 Meeting in Ottawa
09/05/03 RTR 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 RTR 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 RTR 030071 84K Meeting with US Ambassador to Japan Howard Baker
October 8, 2003
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:
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