FREDDIE MAC EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT PATRICIA COOK TO ADDRESS CREDIT SUISSE FINANCIAL SERVICES CONFERENCE

McLean, VA – Patricia Cook, executive vice president - Investments and Capital Markets of Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE), will address the Credit Suisse 2006 Financial Services Conference in Miami, Florida, on Wednesday, February 8, 2006 at 2:00 p.m., Eastern Time.

A live webcast of the speech will be available through a link on Freddie Mac's Investor Relations Web page at www.FreddieMac.com/investors. The webcast archive will be available beginning at approximately 2 p.m., Eastern Time, on Thursday, February 9, 2006, and will remain available through Tuesday, May 9, 2006.

Freddie Mac is a stockholder-owned company established by Congress in 1970 to support homeownership and rental housing. Freddie Mac fulfills its mission by purchasing residential mortgages and mortgage-related securities, which it finances primarily by issuing mortgage-related securities and debt instruments in the capital markets. Over the years, Freddie Mac has made home possible for one in six homebuyers and nearly four million renters in America.

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