FBI has exemption to arrange payments to hostage-takers: U.S. sources

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - While U.S. policy bans federal officials from doing business with kidnappers, the FBI for years has used a secret exemption to government rules to communicate with hostage-takers and sometimes send money to them, U.S. government sources said.

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