A LETTER SENT BY FORMER MINISTER OF STATE BERND SCHMIDBAUER MdB TO ANOTHER WESTERN GOVERNMENT ON THE 22ND OF MAY 2001 ALSO PROVIDES EVIDENCE IN RECTIFICATION OF JOURNALISTIC DISINFORMATION.

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Bernd Schmidbauer MdB
Former Minister of State, dated 22nd May 2001

Dear…………….

I gladly confirm that husband and wife, Ida and Werner Mauss, in close coordination with the German government and with Chancellor Dr. Helmut Kohl, initiated and have maintained contacts to the ELN (Ejército de Liberación Nacional) in Colombia.

As Minister of State and coordinator of the intelligence services between 1991 and 1998, I initiated and carried through a number of activities with Herr and Frau Mauss.

These included meetings in Europe intended to move on the peace process in Colombia; discussions and negotiations with the Catholic Church led to positive negotiations in Germany.

Technology was used to help maintain contact so that the dialogue would not be interrupted. For this reason Frau Ida Mauss maintained contact via satellite telephone.

For the German government, the activities of the Mauss family as recorded above were transparent and agreed upon in advance.

One lasting result of these activities was the successful conclusion of several humanitarian missions and the opening of a dialogue between the opposing parties in Colombia.

I remain at your disposal for further discussion of this issue.

Yours sincerely

SIGNATURE

Bernd Schmidbauer MdB
Former Minister of State