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A BILL TO AMEND THE FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE ACT
TO REQUIRE INSURED BANKS TO MAINTAIN CERTAIN REC-
ORDS, TO REQUIRE THAT CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS IN U.S.
CURRENCY BE REPORTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE
TREASURY, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

DECEMBER 4, 10, 1969; FEBRUARY 10, MARCH 2, AND 9, 1970

41-642

Printed for the use of the
Committee on Banking and Currency

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1970

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Bartimo, Frank A., Assistant General Counsel, Manpower and Reserve Af-
fairs, Department of Defense__
Desch, Carl W., senior vice president, First National City Bank of New
York, on behalf of the New York Clearing House Association, accom-
panied by Roy C. Haberkern, Jr., Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy;
and Henry Harfield, Shearman & Sterling
Dwinell, Lane, Assistant Administrator for Administration, Agency for
International Development, accompanied by Daniel Cohen, Special
Assistant to Chief, Financial Review Division; Leslie A. Grant, Deputy
Counsel; and Robert R. Parker, former attaché and chairman of the
Irregular Practices Committee, American Embassy, Saigon, Vietnam...

Leval, Pierre, former chief attorney, appellate division, southern district

of New York...

Morgenthau, Robert N., U.S. Attorney for the southern district of New

York.

Pollack, Irving M., Director, Division of Trading and Markets, Securities

and Exchange Commission, accompanied by Stanley Sporkin, Associate

Director; Ira H. Pearce, Special Counsel; and Allan S. Mostoff, Asso-

ciate Director, Division of Corporate Regulation.

Rossides, Hon. Éugene T., Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Enforce-

ment and Operations, accompanied by Roy T. Englert, Deputy General

Counsel; Robert T. Cole, Special Assistant for International Tax Affairs;

Michael Bradfield, Assistant General Counsel; and Ira Tannebaum,

attorney-

Rossides, Hon. Eugene T., Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for En-
forcement and Operations, accompanied by William Dickey, Deputy
Assistant Secretary; and Robert T. Cole, Special Assistant for Inter-
national Tax Affairs__

Somer, Clifford C., vice president, American Bankers Association, accom-

panied by William Heffelfinger, staff representative, American Bankers

Association

Thrower, Hon. Randolph W., Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service,
accompanied by Leon C. Green, Deputy Assistant Commissioner for
Compliance; Bernard Meehan, Staff Assistant in Compliance; and Paul
Peppler, Coordinator, Intelligence Division___

Williford, Frederick L., executive vice president, National Microfilm Asso-

ciation, accompanied by Jerry P. Smith, marketing coordinator, financial

markets, Business Systems Markets Division, Eastman Kodak Co.,

Rochester, N. Y.; and Art Spaulding, staff assistant to the vice president,

engineering, Business Equipment Group, Bell & Howell Co., Chicago,

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Wilson, Hon. Will, Assistant U.S. Attorney General_.

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American Bankers Association, comments on Treasury Department's
recommendations on H.R. 15073__.

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Bartimo, Frank A.:

Information on banking facilities in Vietnam, Hong Kong, Morocco,
and Tangiers_---

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List of banks doing business in South Vietnam_.

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Committee of Foreign-Owned Banks, comments on bank secrecy legisla-
tion, H.R. 15073, and related proposals..
Desch, Carl W., commentary on H.R. 15073.
Eastman Kodak Co., report of the use of microfilm in maintaining records:
Charts showing technical equipment with explanatory data in the
use of microfilm for records_.

"Eastman Kodak Division Helps Banks To Find Needle in a Hay-

stack of Corporation Dividend Checks," article from the American

Banker..

"Improving the Proof-Transit Operation," article by Arthur Van
Vlissingen.
Audits Bank Network," article by
W. D. Sullivan, vice president of administration, Seattle First
National Bank.

"Microfilming Safeguards

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"Report by January 31, United States Directs HRA" article from
the New York Times, January 17, 1969..

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State Department telegram approved by Hon. Eugene T. Rossides,
Assistant Secretary of State in regard to Mutual Judicial Assistance
Treaty with Switzerland..

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"Top Swiss Court Lets U.S. Look at Bank Files," article from the
Washington Post, February 28, 1970___.

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Approval of State Department telegram in regard to Mutual Judicial
Assistance Treaty with Switzerland..

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The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:15 a.m., in room 2128, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Wright Patman (chairman), presiding.

Present: Representatives Patman, Barrett, Sullivan, Reuss, Moorhead, Stephens, St Germain, Gonzalez, Minish, Hanna, Gettys, Annunzio, Rees, Galifianakis, Bevill, Griffin, Hanley, Brasco, Chappell, Widnall, Halpern, Clawson, Stanton, Blackburn, Brown, and Williams.

Chairman PATMAN. The committee will please come to order.

Mr. Morgenthau and Mr. Wilson, you may come around and take the witness stand, if you will, please; and Mr. Leval, will you come forward, please.

This morning we begin hearings on H.R. 15073, a bill to amend the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to issue regulations requiring the maintenance of certain records by commercial banks. Further, the bill requires the filing of reports and maintenance of records pursuant to regulations issued by the Secretary, by those who do business with foreign financial institutions in jurisdictions with bank secrecy laws. (The text of H. R. 15073 follows:)

[H.R. 15073, 91st Cong., first sess.]

A BILL To amend the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to require insured banks to maintain certain records, to require that certain transactions in United States currency be reported to the Department of the Treasury, and for other purposes

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

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101. Retention of records by insured banks.

Section 101. Retention of records by insured banks

The Federal Deposit Insurance Act is amended (1) by redesignating sections 21 and 22 as 22 and 23, respectively, and (2) by inserting the following new section immediately after section 20:

"SEC. 21. (a) The purposes of this section are (1) to facilitate the supervision of the business of banking, (2) to aid duly constituted authorities in lawful investi(1)

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