From: Diana Villabon <MI > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Ltr. from Dr. Henry Jarecki 08.16.10 Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:56:46 +0000 Attachments: Ltr.20_,LEpstein_08.06.10.pdf I don't know if this was already sent to you but in case it was not. please see below or attached. August 6, 2010 Mr. Jeffrey Epstein 457 Madison Avenue, 4th Floor New York, NY 10022 Dear Jeffrey: Not one to give up easily, I continue to write to you about Scholar Rescue Fund and in particular to share information about what our grantees are doing to advance knowledge and help the world. Accordingly, I am pleased to send you this letter that describes the growth and accomplishments of our Iraq Project over the past three years. Attached you will find both our latest Global and Iraq reports. I am nothing if not persistent. We held our most recent Scholar Rescue Fund Global Selection Committee meeting on June 29. This was one of three meetings over the past year to consider cases of threatened scholars from any country of the world, except one. Iraq, as you well know, has its own Selection Committee due to the special nature of our Iraq Project and its aim to help preserve the intellectual capital of that country. Interestingly, our recent Global meeting was dominated by an influx of cases of threatened scholars from another single country — Iran. Out of six new cases we chose to fund, all of them are from Iran. This particular meeting, as well as your gifts to the Scholar Rescue Fund, made me think of the seminal role that you and your philanthropy have played in our ability to get to the point where we have been able to rescue over 200 of Iraq's most senior, most threatened scholars from hann. I am writing today not only to say thank you, but also to tell the story of how all of this happened and to explain our results to date. Of course, this narrative is not yet finished, and we are not certain when it will be. And we may well need to fo