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Subject: HOT! Contract for Governance Team
Importance: High
~ b )( S ~(b)(7)(C) ) a PMJ working on the democracy
and governance team in our ORHA Rear office, is
really getting hammered on an issue and we need
your help.
As you Deputy Secretary Wolfo'.J.jtz has taken a
personal interest in ~etting this team together.
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through SAIC. Though we've gotten all sorts of
verbal and e-mail assurances from you that it is OK
to bring these people on board ASAP as long we
don't send them your way yet, we cannot ,.;;: b ~ e ~·::;,..,,...,.. ...,
ne otiating the contract until ORHA C-8 (b)(S) (b)<7>
(b)(S) puts in v.Titing that the funds are available
and that we can sign the form 419, which
authorizes us to enter into a contract.
llblL :z.u...~ gets calls daily from Larry DiR.ita, Jaymie
Duman, Ryan Henry, Ray DuBois and others about
the status of the contract lfwe don't act soon, the
candidates will probably lose interest and we will .
have lost the confidence of the E-Rin g.
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