The House Judiciary Committee has restored the $118,000 that the Reagan Administration had cut from the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI) budget for the 1982 fiscal year beginning Oct. I. The OSI investigates and prosecutes Nazi war criminals living in the U.S.
The Administration would have reduced the $2.6 million budget allocated for the OSI this year by $118,000. Aspokesman for Rep. William Lehman (D. Fla.) told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the restoration of that sum means the OSI will not have to drop five of its 50 staff members.
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