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V - 4260 (Our File No. 163A-PA-8591) 11 March 1997 RE: EDMOND SAFRA, DOING BUSINESS AS REPUBLIC NATIONAL BANK OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK CITY Reference your note no. 124 dated 12 June 1996. A detailed search of the records of the FBi - both at Oa pagneg dey - yeon man ut pue '?' 'uogbudyanm 'saeaaenbpeah disclose any major investigation of captioned bank for money laundering by the FBI.... This search and review has taken an extremely long time to complete, because, as with any large bank, there are numerous b1 references to it throughout our files. It should be noted that the AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY has acknowledged that they are the source of all the negative articles about sAFRA and his bank and that they have made a public apology.. the AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY thus began to deteriorate. On 1 March 1988, the date of expiration of the non-competition clause agreed to in 1983, SAFRA opened in Geneva a branch of the REPUBLIC NATIONAL BANK of New York, in direct cOmpetition to TDB After it was disclosed that all of the accusations of money laundering had been caused by AMERIcAN EXpREss, that company's president published a letter, worldwide, making apologies to SAFRA. DATE: 08-03-2006 CLASSIFIED BY 6O3O9 UC TAM/DCG/EHL ALL INFOFMATION CONTAINED REASON: 1.4 (b, d) HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED ENCEFT DECLASSIFY 0N: 08-03-2031 WHERE SHOWN QTHERWISE {6) :byh le3A PA-8s91 O F10YB0F.D6 S