EXHIBIT (8)(k)(iii) AMENDMENT NO. 3 TO FUND PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT This Amendment to the Fund Participation Agreement ("Agreement") dated October 2, 2000, between Janus Aspen Series, an open-end management investment company organized as a Delaware...

                                                             EXHIBIT (8)(k)(iii)

                 AMENDMENT NO. 3 TO FUND PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT

     This Amendment to the Fund Participation Agreement ("Agreement") dated
October 2, 2000, between Janus Aspen Series, an open-end management investment
company organized as a Delaware business trust (the "Trust"), Janus
Distributors, Inc. ("Distributor"), a Colorado corporation, and American General
Life Insurance Company, a Texas life insurance company (the "Company") is
effective as of January 15, 2004.

                                    AMENDMENT
                                    ---------

     For good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby
acknowledged, the parties agree to amend the Agreement as follows:

     1.   Schedule A of this Agreement shall be deleted and replaced with the
attached Schedule A.

     2.   All other terms of the Agreement shall remain in full force and
effect.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused their duly authorized officers
to execute this Amendment as of the date and year first above written.


AMERICAN GENERAL LIFE                    JANUS DISTRIBUTORS, INC.
INSURANCE COMPANY


By:                                      By:
   ------------------------------------     ------------------------------------

Name:                                    Name:  Xxxxxx X. Xxxx
Title:                                   Title: Vice President


JANUS ASPEN SERIES


By:
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Name:  Xxxxxx X. Xxxx
Title: Vice President




                                   Schedule A
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                   Separate Accounts and Associated Contracts
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                            (As of January 15, 2004)

Name of Separate Account and Date        Contracts Funded
Established by the Board of Directors.   By Separate Account
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American General Life Insurance Company  Platinum Investor Variable Annuity
Separate Account D                       Platinum Investor Immediate Variable
                                         Annuity

American General Life Insurance Company  Platinum Investor I & Platinum Investor
                                         II VUL
Separate Account VL-R                    Platinum Investor III VUL
                                         Platinum Investor Survivor VUL
                                         Platinum Investor Survivor II VUL
                                         Platinum Investor PLUS VUL
                                         Corporate America - Variable VUL
                                         Platinum Investor FlexDirector VUL