FREDDIE MAC ANNOUNCES REFERENCE REMIC^SM SECURITY ISSUE

McLean, VA – Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) today announced its intention to issue a Reference REMIC^SM security during the week of January 16, 2006, as specified on its 2006 Reference Notes® and Reference REMIC calendar.

Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc., Credit Suisse First Boston and RBS Greenwich Capital will serve as the lead underwriters for Reference REMIC R-004. Additional information about this transaction will be available during the week of January 16, 2006.

This announcement is not an offer to sell any Freddie Mac securities. Offers for any given security are made only through applicable offering circulars and related supplements, which incorporate Freddie Mac's information statement and related supplements.

Freddie Mac's press releases sometimes contain forward-looking statements. A description of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations expressed in these and other forward-looking statements can be found in the company's Information Statement dated June 14, 2005, and related Information Statement Supplements, which are available on the Investor Relations page of the company's Web site at www.FreddieMac.com/investors.

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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