U.S. AGENCY FOR
GLOBAL MEDIA

August 14, 2020

Mr. Nathaniel Kretchun
Open Technology Fund
2101 Street NW Suite 300
Washington, D.C. 20037
Nat@opentech.fund

Dear Mr. Kretchun:

I have addressed this letter to you, as you are the listed point of contact in the USAGM and OTF grant agreement. I have cc?d Laura
Cunningham and counsel pursuant to previous requests as a courtesy to OTF. As a reminder, I am not litigation counsel and all litigation related
requests should go exclusively to litigation counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

USAGM is in receipt of Ms. Cunningham?s most recent letter dated August 12, 2020. We are greatly concerned by numerous
contradictions, false statements, and attempts to misconstrue both the requirements of the grant agreement and the law.

First and foremost, USAGM has not withheld $20 million in funding, as OTF has repeatedly and falsely claimed in the press, to
members of Congress, and in written communication with USAGM. In fact, USAGM has provided OTF with more than $9.3 million of funding to
OTF to date in 2020, as well as an additional $1.6 million payment that was just approved in July.

As you know, CEO Pack and his new leadership team take very seriously the security failures listed in the U.S. Office of Personnel
Management (0PM) and the Office of the Director for National Intelligence (ODNI) reports. Those reports detail the failures of previous USAGM
leadership, as well as failures involving grantees, like OTF, which altogether have been identified as a serious vulnerability to USAGM and
indeed U.S. national security.

We expect OTF to fully cooperate with document and other requests to ensure not only U.S. national security interests are
met and the safety of those who are working on, and end users of, internet firewall circumvention technology is guaranteed, but also that OTF,
which is currently 100% taxpayer funded through a grant from USAGM, is accountable to the American people who are paying for its work.

Furthermore, if, as OTF claims, many of requests from the new leadership team are duplicative of previously provided
documents, then it should not be burdensome to send these already-compiled documents to USAGM. All other requests concern information
that OTF should also have readily available.

OTF has not provided any of the requested information in the timeframe set out by USAGM and required under the terms of the
grant agreement. USAGM wants to work with OTF and is therefore willing to provide an extra five day extension from the original deadline to
provide the requested information. This information should be provided to USAGM no later than 5:00pm on August 17?? 2020.

Sincerely,

Wv?w

Mora Namdar, Esq

Senior Advisor to the CEO

Acting Vice President for Legal, Compliance and Risk
U.S. Agency for Global Media

Cc Gupta Law Firm
Cc Laura Cunningham