ALL FBI CDHTAIHED Madrid 2082.txt 12$ DATE aa--1n--3o11 50333 BC LPEPLJELEM Zuinraa-E-94% TELEGRAM June 01, 2005 T0: SECSTATE WASHDC - PRIORITY Action: EUR From: AMEMBASSY MADRID (MADRID 2032 - PRIORITY) TAGS: 196 ib?c Captions: None 7 Subject: DOJ COUNTERTERRORISM MEETINGS WITH Ref: A) MADRID 1584 B) MADRID 1989 Ciassified By: Po1itica1 Counse1or Kathy Fitzpatrick; reason 1.4 (B) 1. sum team Ted by D03 b, visited Madrid Mav 16-20 for 6 meetings W1th| |to nr"x /"re I The next meeting of the working Group wi11 take place in September or October in Washington. End summary. it-6 D0Jrg?mn;yuLflu?51fin personne1 attended a sesgion of the onooino tria1 and met seoarateiv with b7D 31510 - M7 HLED Page 59-' V.) I I 5) . Madrid 2082.txt 136 137C ib7D OF BILATERAL COUNTERTERRORISM EXPERTS 4. Ihe DQJZEBI fieam, accompanied a1so attended the meeting. It was the first officiai meeting of the "U.S.~Spain Bi1atera1 Counterterrorism Experts working Group" iaunched by Attorney Genera1 Gonza1es and Spanish Justice Minister Aguiiar during Gonza1es' March 11 visit to Madrid. The meeting began with a review of the bi1atera1 exchange of information regarding each country's regu1ations on the protection of sensitive investigative information used for judicia1 pur oses. As in previous discussions on this issue, Spanis participants acknow1edged that there was no mechanism in their system for safeguarding investigative data submitted as evidence in a triai; a11 such information couid eventua11y emerge in the pub1ic domain. 5. jig] :reviewed the mechanisms avai1ab1e to U.S. Judges 0 pernit them to share information with both the prosecution efense, without revea1ing ciassified information. noted that U.S. prosecutors had the benefit of weig ing the va1ue of c1assified evidence in the bg pre--tria1 phase and cou1d determine what information to b7C inciude in the tria1 and what to 1eave out in order to protect sources and methods. Spanish prosecutors have no such advantage since the investigation is ied by a magistrate who must automatica11y "judicia1ize" a11 avaiTab1e evidence, in effect making even the nsitive information avai1ab1e to the pub1ic. that this factor comp1icated the USG's abi i assist Spanish prosecutors. >4 Page 2 b' 6:5' UP) Madrid 7nR7 TERRORISM FINANCE 9. (U) The next meeting of the working Group wi11 take p1ace in Washington in September or October 2005. Page 3