    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: WILLIAM J. CLINTON (1999, Book II)]
    [August 24, 1999]
    [Page 1469]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

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    Letter to Congressional Leaders Transmitting a Report on Iraq's Weapons
    of Mass Destruction Programs
    August 24, 1999

    Dear Mr. Speaker:  (Dear Mr. President:)
        Pursuant to section 585(c) of the Foreign Operations, Export
    Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1999, as contained
    in the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 1999 (Public Law 105-277) (the
    ``Act''), I hereby transmit a report concerning Iraq's weapons of mass
    destruction programs.
        The report is comprised of three sections that provide the
    information required by section 585(c) of the Act, to the extent that
    such information is available: assessment of Iraq's nuclear and other
    weapons of mass destruction programs and its efforts to move toward
    procurement of nuclear weapons and the means to deliver weapons of mass
    destruction; assessment of the International Atomic Energy Agency's
    (IAEA) action team reports, and other IAEA efforts to monitor the extent
    and nature of Iraq's nuclear program; and an opinion on the value of
    maintaining the ongoing inspection regime rather than replacing it with
    a passive monitoring system.
            Sincerely,

                                                          William J. Clinton

    Note: Identical letters were sent to J. Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the
    House of Representatives, and Albert Gore, Jr., President of the Senate.
    This letter was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on August
    25.