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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Young)
Tue Jan 30 08:31:03 1996
From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 08:29:05 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
URL:
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/front/spy-agency-money.html
January 30, 1996
Spy Agency Said to Have Spare Billions
The National Reconnaissance Office, the secret agency
that builds spy satellites, lost track of more than $2
billion in
classified money last year, largely because of its own
internal
secrecy, intelligence officials say.
In the past, congressional oversight of the reconnaissance
office
has been sketchy, because few members of Congress
understood the highly technical language of spy satellites
and some
did not know what they were approving when they authorized
billions
of dollars a year in secret spending.
