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Too few law enforcement agents have a good grasp of the potential ties between money laundering and terrorist financing, according to John Cassara, a former case officer for the Central Intelligence Agency who investigated terrorism. This lack of knowledge persists even as some financial crimes tied to laundering and terrorism have worsened in recent years, he said. But the U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has done little outreach to date to better train investigators, said Cassara, a veteran of the agency who also worked for the department's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. Cassara, whose new book...