Islamic Republic of IranLeader's Intelligence OrganizationDate: 24 Ordibehesht 1380 (14 may 2001)From: Director, Leader's Intelligence organization [Hojjat-ol eslam Ali Akbar Nateq Nouri]To: Director, MOIS - Section 43 ([Hojjat-ol eslam Pourganad]Subject: Tasking memoWe are very happy at the Rahbar's office with all you have undertaken...The Supreme Leader [Rahbar - Ayatollah Ali Khamene'I] has seen your latest report regarding support and help for the future plan of al Qaeda. Of course we are looking at different proposals for providing support, but all in all, after reviewing them, the Leader asked me to convene to you the following: "Our emphasis should be the struggle with the Great Satan and Israel. This is our main agenda. It is not only important to us for tactical reasons, but for the greatness of Islam. Our main goal shall be to damage their economic structures and to damage their reputation and credibility. We shall concentrate on these two archenemies of the Islamic faith [the U.S. and Israel]. We must also strike at their internal peace and security. This is imperative. In this path, we should be very careful, and very clever, in order not to leave any evidence behind that can impact negatively on us in the future. Again I emphasize, we shall use our intelligence and internal security apparatus for this struggle and will coordinate with those foreign sources who share the same belief with us. These efforts should be centralized under the close supervision of our intelligence and security apparatus in order to be effective."The Leader mentioned that at our next meeting we should analyze the ideological and logistical problems in reaching our goals and of improving our plans,  especially in coordination with fighters of al Qaeda and Hezbollah, to find one target [haddaf] that is beneficial to both sides. We need to set aside our ideological differences and analyze the problems that would hamper us from reaching our goal. In particular, we should examine the expansion and coordination with al Qaeda (Shabbakeh) group and Hezbollah to reach our common objective.The Leader has expressed his full support for the implementation of the future plans of your department [Section 43] and again emphasized that we should not leave any evidence of our support for al Qaeda that could give us problems or prejudice our standing.The Leader suggested that we limit our relations with al Qaeda to only two people, as before (Imad Mugniyeh and Ayman Zawahri) and not go beyond them and deal only with them.Signature seal in green waxAli Akbar Nateq-NouriDirector, Leader's Intelligence OrganizationRectangular stamp: Section 43 - MOIS Received by Mohebi24 Ordibehesht 1380 Read: filed.