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State Department cable re: post court decision contact with Montesinos
This email exchange from August 1998, between John P. Leonard, deputy assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, and Scott N. Thayer occurs three months after the Peruvian Supreme Court ruled in favor of Newmont Mining. It illustrates that contact between Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Peter Romero and Vladimir Montesinos continued after the decision. The document includes a section titled "Newmont Update 8-25-98" redacted according to Freedom of Information Act exemptions B1 (classified national defense and foreign relations information), B4 (trade secrets) and B5 (interagency or intra-agency communications that are protected by legal privileges).
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