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Case No. CT-2012-294798-1
Charles A Miller III, Executive Director
Sir John Soane's Museum Foundation
1040 First Avenue, No. 311
New York, NY 10022
RE: Letters dated May 25,2012, July 23, 2012 and October 9, 2012 (collectively, the "Application")
Dear Mr. Miller:
Please find enclosed License No. CT-2012-294798-1, which, pursuant to section 515.565(b)(2) of the Cuban Assets Control Regulations, 31 CFR Part 515 (the "Regulations"), authorizes individuals under the auspices of Sir John Soane's Museum Foundation to engage in the travel-related transactions involving Cuba as set forth in section 515.560(c) of the Regulations and other transactions directly incident to the types of educational exchange activities described in the Application, subject to certain conditions.
Please note that OFAC considered the activities you described in the Application as examples of the...
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1) Original PDF file contains itineraries and other related documents.
This cover letter and license were issued in connection with the group with which two well-known celebrities travelled to Cuba and were photographed engaging in tourist-like activities. This resulted in demands by certain Members of Congress for explanations from OFAC as to how this was permissible given the prohibitions of TSRA and the CACR (515.560(f)) against the licensing of "transactions in connection with tourist travel to Cuba."
See Letter from Treasury to Rep. Diaz-Balart re: SCP Cuba Travel (2013).
2) The "People to people" general license was significantly restricted in 2017, where the primary change was the addition of the requirement that "[t]he exchanges take place under the auspices of an organization that is a person subject...