MEETING WITH SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE STAFF ON MONDAY 6 NOVEMBER 1978

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• Publication Date: November 8, 1978
• Content Type: MFR

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8 November 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Meeting with Senate Armed Services Committee Staff
on Monday 6 November 1978
I met with Messrs. Rhett Dawson and John Roberts (SASC)
and Jim Babcock and Norm Ghisalbert (DoD) concerning the
Senate Armed Services Committee request for a study by DoD
to define criteria by which things were categorized as NFIP
or IRA. The meeting was at OSD initiative to obtain clarifi-
cation of the requirement. Both Dawson and Roberts acknowledged
the problem was a difficult one, that their objective was to "ad-
vance the state of thinking this year" rather than live with the
problem as it stands for another year. The problem Dawson refers
to so obliquely is the jurisdictional dispute between his com-
mittee and. the Senate Select Committee resulting from ambiguity
in the Senate on oversight of IRA. Both Dawson and Roberts
acknowledged that the best they could hope for was a description
of the problem, not a listing of hard and fast criteria. They
could not provide relief from the study or from the due date
(31 December). I pointed out that it was a subject of special
interest to the DCI but that their tasking did not include him.
Their response to this was that they deal in their committee
with the SecDef; consequently such tasking is directed to him.
Following the meeting, Jim Babcock and I agreed that there was
an absolute necessity for working level interaction on the effort.
DoD will take the lead in attempting to put something together
that will be responsive to the request and, before forwarding it
up the DoD chain, will provide it to.us for our reaction.
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