Osama bin Laden's handwritten will has been released by US intelligence officials - in which the al Qaeda leader said he wanted most of his £20.7m wealth to be used "on jihad".
The document, which was seized from his Pakistan bolthole when he was killed in 2011, is among 113 newly declassified files made public.
He outlined the specific quantities of cash and gold to be given to his mother, a son, a daughter and other relatives - as well as two of his closest associates.
Bin Laden wrote: "I hope for my brothers, sisters and maternal aunts to obey my will and to spend all the money that I have left in Sudan on jihad, for the sake of Allah."
Other papers published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) included a letter the terror chief sent to his father in 2008, in which he asked for forgiveness "if I have done what you did not like".
The translated files also reveal the pressure that Bin Laden faced before his Abbottabad compound was raided by US Navy SEALs.
Under various pennames, he urged his militants to remain vigilant for secret monitoring devices - and even shared his worries that a tracking chip may have been implanted in his wife's dental filling.
"The size of the chip is about the length of a grain of wheat and the width of a fine piece of vermicelli," Bin Laden wrote after his partner visited a dentist in Iran.
It has also been revealed that al Qaeda executed four of its members on suspicion of spying - only for the terror group to realise they were probably innocent.
In the months before Bin Laden's death, the organisation was planning a media campaign to mark the 10th anniversary of 9/11 - with leaders pushing for further attacks on US soil.
"We need to extend and develop our operations in America and not keep it limited to blowing up airplanes," Bin Laden is believed to have written in another missive.
A senior US intelligence official told Reuters the latest tranche of files suggests Bin Laden was "trying to reclaim that 9/11 'victory'", even though he was "somewhat out of touch with the (actual) capabilities of his organisation".
There are plans to release further documents recovered from Bin Laden's compound later this year.
"The document review process can be time consuming because - once a document is declassified - it cannot be reclassified," the DNI said on its website.
"The Intelligence Community needs to ensure no declassified document will directly injure efforts to keep the nation secure."
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