[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 146 (Monday, October 25, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Page S13087]
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                           CHARLES BATTAGLIA

  Mr. SPECTER. Mr. President, I would like to comment about a 
distinguished American who is retiring from service in the U.S. Senate. 
Charles Battaglia has been associated with me in the Senate for the 
past 14 years. He came to help me as an assistant when I served on the 
Intelligence Committee and stayed with me to become staff director of 
the Intelligence Committee during the 104th Congress when I chaired 
that committee, and then, in the 105th Congress, moved over with me to 
be the staff director when I chaired the Veterans Affairs Committee 
through the first session of the 106th Congress.
  Mr. Battaglia has a distinguished record. Following graduation from 
Boston College, he served 25 years in the U.S. Navy, serving in the 
offices of the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Navy, and the 
Naval War College. In 1978, Mr. Battaglia was selected by the Director 
of Central Intelligence, Adm. Stansfield Turner, to be his special 
assistant at CIA. He received his MBA from Bryant University, and in 
1991 completed the Kennedy School of Government's international 
security program, was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and 
has an extraordinarily distinguished military record in the Navy, in 
the intelligence community and CIA, as an assistant on the Intelligence 
Committee, and later as staff director there.
  He has earned retirement status. I might say we are making some 
effort to bring him back on a contract part-time basis to help with our 
inquiry into alleged espionage and other matters on oversight at the 
Department of Justice.
  He has had an extraordinary record and become a personal friend of 
mine in the intervening 14 years. He has done great service for the 
military and as a member of the Senate family.
  I yield the floor.

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