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Through the month é ril,: occasional telephone ow ry nquiring [ Of progress. Each time ‘. Progress was reported, and at oer April Charter's : t t a Contact with Billy Carter simply faded away. On June 30, 1980, at 4:40 p.m. Mr, Nasife received an inquiry from Mr. Joel Lisker of the U.S. Justice Department regarding our contacts with Biny Carter, . G@ARTER'S OPINIONS oN THE BILLY CARTER CONTACT . + . The Charter Company has had a relationship with the National 011 Corporation of Libya since acquiring Carey Energy Corporation in March of 1979, Charter's transactions with Libya in the settlement of litigation against Carey Energy and the subsequent contracting of crude of1 supplies with NOC has been : Professional, above-boarg'at all tines, and businesslike. Libya has always honored all business agreements with Charter, verbal or written. At no time haveany political favors been requested or granted. After the initial contact from Billy Carter, Charter went through the ; Process of determining the viability of this contact. The Company was aware that Billy Carter had hosted the Libyan Trade Delegation to Georgia and appeared to have a line of communications with at least some Libyan officials. Mr. Rasife contacted Ali Houderi, a member of the Libyan Diplomatic Mission, in , _erder to discover if the’ Billy Carter contact had Any potential. Mr. Houderi® indicated that Billy Carter had a good rapport with his Libyan friends and that there may be a potential for him obtaining Libyan of1 in order to pursue this: proposition. Based on this information, Charter determined that the Billy Carter contact had some merit. At that time, Libya was Producing *@pproximately 2.2 million barrels per day and it seemed reasonable that there "might be additional of1 available. 7 oot ., The contact between Charter and Billy Carter was handled unc =r the same Procedures as all other contacts of this type. At no time did Billy Carter