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your minds and hearts and the rule of law." This message was to be repeated and strengthened the following year in the new democratic Capitals of Russia and Eastern Europe. In the summer of 1994, Freeh led a delegation of high- level diplomatic and federal law enforcement officials to meet with senior officials of 11 Furopean nations on internationa) crime . issues, ° At the outset, Richard Holbrooke, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, declared, "This is the evolving American foreign policy. Law Enforcement is at the forefront of our national interest in this part of the world." Meetings were held with officials of Russia, Germany, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Eungary, Poland, the Ukraine, Austria, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. On July 4, 1994, Director Freeh officially announced the historic Opening of an FBI Legal Attache Office in Moscow, the old seat of Russian communisn. . Subseguently, international leaders and law enforcement officials have focused On Ways to strengthen security measures égainst possible theft of nuclear weapons and nuclear materials from Russia and other former republics of the Soviet Union. They have sharpened joint efforts against organized crime, druc trafficking, and terrorism. They have also Strongly supported the FBEI’s efforts to institute Standardized training of international police jin investigative processes, ethics, leadership, ang Professionalism: in April 1995, the International Law Enforcement Academy opened its doors in Budapest, Eungary. Staffed by FBI and other law enforcement trainers, the academy offers five elcht-week courses a year, based on the FBI’s National Acadeny concept. To prepare the FEI for both domestic and foreicn lawlessness in the 21st century, Freeh Spearheaded the effort 54 law enforcement to ensure its ability, in the face a) telecommunications advances, to carry out court-authorizes electronic Surveillance in major investigations effecting public safety and national security. This ability was secured when Congress passed the Communications Assistance for Lay Enifcercement Act in October 1964. , ; s ad Re also mounted eccressive procrams in specific criminal areas During the years is¢3 through 1936€, these efforts Paid off in successful investigations as diverse as the World Trade Center bombing in New York City; the Archer Daniels Midland international price-fixing conspiracies; the attempted theft of Schering-Plough and Merck pharmaceutical trade Secrets; and the arrests of Mexican Crug trafficker Juan Garcia-Abrego and Russian crime boss Vyacheslav Ivankov. In 1996, the Health Insurance Portability ang Accountability Act and the Economic Espionage Act were Passed in 21