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### Viewing cable 06BRASILIA2420, BRAZIL - NEED FOR A STRATEGY ON THE TBA TERROR FINANCE

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06BRASILIA2420 | 2006-11-17 17:05 | 2011-01-28 12:12 | SECRET//NOFORN | Embassy Brasilia

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    S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 02 BRASILIA 002420

    SIPDIS

    SIPDIS
    NOFORN

    TREASURY FOR TFI - HEFFERNAN
    TREASURY FOR FINCEN - SHOWELL
    DHS FOR ICE - D.THOMPSON
    STATE FOR S/CT - NOYES
    STATE FOR WHA - D. MCCARTHY/C.CROFT
    STATE FOR EB/ESC - DAS SIMONS AND JEAN CLARK

    E.O. 12958: DECL:12/17/2026
    TAGS: KTFN EFIN PTER SNAR ETTC PREL BR
    SUBJECT: BRAZIL - NEED FOR A STRATEGY ON THE TBA TERROR FINANCE
    DESIGNATION PACKAGE

    REF: 11/15 Jean Clark Email

    BRASILIA 00002420 001.2 OF 002

    Classified by Charge d'Affaires Phillip T. Chicola, Reasons 1.4
    (B) and (D).

    ¶1. (U) This is a message for Treasury Assistant Secretary
    Patrick O'Reilly from Charge Phillip Chicola.

    ¶2. (S/NF) Summary and Comment: Embassy understands that
    Treasury and other Washington agencies are moving forward with
    plans to designate on November 21, 2006 several individuals who
    operate in the Tri-Border Area (TBA), including several
    Brazilian citizens/residents, as terrorist financiers for their
    support for Hezbollah. While post supports inclusion of the
    specific names proposed, which are well known to agencies
    represented at post, Embassy Brasilia recommends that the date
    for the designation be postponed in order to implement a
    strategy for obtaining Brazilian cooperation in disrupting these
    terrorism finance networks. As the Brazilian government on the
    policy-making level has repeatedly questioned the evidence of
    terror financing in the TBA, and has made multiple requests that
    we share our evidence of such with them, the GoB would react
    poorly (and most likely would decline to move forward with any
    asset freezes) if the USG were to publicly designate Brazilian
    individuals/entities without having first informed it.
    Moreover, Post believes that the disruption of these terror
    finance networks would be best accomplished by pursuing
    cooperation first through law-enforcement channels. End Summary
    and Comment.

    ¶3. (S/NF) Our difference of views with the GoB policy-level over
    the possibility of terror finance in the TBA is well known. The
    GoB repeatedly has challenged the USG to share its evidence of
    terror finance in the TBA, and has only reluctantly allowed
    reference to the possibility of such activities into official
    statements, such as the communique issued annually by the
    3-plus-one regional counterterrorism forum. While these
    information requests may in fact only be a bluff or rhetorical
    debating point, by sharing our evidence -- at a minimum with our
    vetted units in the intelligence service and perhaps the police
    as well -- we either will obtain their cooperation, or call
    their bluff. By not sharing our information we will alienate
    the decision-makers whose actions are required to freeze any
    Brazilians assets belonging to these individuals will not
    cooperate in that effort. By contrast, if we have shared our
    case with the GoB and they decline to take action, we put them
    on the defensive and would be better able to focus private and
    public debate on the bigger issues here, such as Brazil's
    failure to acknowledge Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.

    ¶4. (S/NF) Other factors also argue for delaying the designation.
    Designating without coordinating with the Brazilians would have
    the potential to poison the next meeting of the 3-plus-one
    group, currently scheduled for December 3-4 in Buenos Aires.
    Moreover, as this is the first time we would be designating
    Brazilian citizens, it is worth making the attempt to get it
    right (the original Barakat case is not quite a precedent as he
    already was extradited to Paraguay on tax evasion charges when
    the USG designated him). Finally, designating these individuals
    without first obtaining Brazilian cooperation in identifying and
    freezing assets would leave the door wide open to asset flight,
    particularly since these individuals would not be subject to
    designation by the United Nations.

    ¶5. (S/NF) Regardless of how and when we ultimately approach the
    GoB policy level, Post recommends that the USG pursue a strategy
    that seeks to disrupt these individuals' networks through
    law-enforcement channels first. Law enforcement agencies at
    post have strong working level relationships with their
    Brazilian counterparts, many of whom are more willing to be
    forward leaning in cooperating with the USG than the policy
    level is. Post believes it would be possible to use these
    strong relationships to effect investigations and seizures of
    these individuals' assets were the USG to provide through law

    BRASILIA 00002420 002.2 OF 002

    enforcement channels information on their criminal or illicit
    dealings incident to terror finance (i.e money laundering,
    contraband, drug dealing, evading foreign exchange transaction
    reporting requirements etc.). This strategy makes sense given
    that there are Brazil-based financing networks that ought to be
    disrupted, that there is evidence of criminal activity incident
    to the terror finance activity and that the GoB policy level may
    prove unresponsive to the level of evidence of terror finance
    that we may be limited to sharing. In this strategy,
    designation would come well after the apprehension and
    disrupting of these individuals' activities.

    ¶6. (S/NF) Post is ready to engage the Brazilians on this in a
    way that optimizes the chances of success in disrupting these
    individuals' activities.

    CHICOLA

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