FREDDIE MAC CHAIRMAN AND CEO RICHARD SYRON TO ADDRESS LEHMAN BROTHERS FINANCIAL SERVICES CONFERENCE

McLean, VA – Richard F. Syron, chairman and chief executive officer of Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE), will address the 2005 Lehman Brothers Financial Services Conference in New York City on Tuesday, September 13, 2005, at 9:25 a.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 6 p.m., Eastern Time, on Tuesday, September 13, 2005 and will remain available for approximately 90 days.

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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