Intelligence agencies' budgets revealed

[Tracy Riddle]

A breakdown of US intelligence's multi-billion dollar "black budget" has been revealed in files disclosed by leaker Edward Snowden to the Washington Post.
The CIA's budget is the most expensive, $14.7bn (£9.5bn) out of $52.6bn in total for 16 intelligence agencies, according to the files.
Two of those agencies are also actively hacking into foreign computer networks, reports the Washington Post.
The US has not made public a breakdown of the total intelligence budget.
The newspaper published charts detailing the budget, but did not post all the documents, citing "sensitive details" after US officials expressed concerns about risks to methods and sources.
According to the Washington Post, the CIA's budget has grown more than 50% since 2004.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23903310

[Magda Hassan]

And that's not even counting the drugs and arms and scams and front companies etc in the real off the books stuff.

[Tracy Riddle]

And that's not even counting the drugs and arms and scams and front companies etc in the real off the books stuff.

That's what I was thinking. Plus all the WWII loot recovered from what the Nazis and Japanese stole.

[Peter Lemkin]

And that's not even counting the drugs and arms and scams and front companies etc in the real off the books stuff.

That's what I was thinking. Plus all the WWII loot recovered from what the Nazis and Japanese stole.

That number seems both surprisingly low to me and I've long heard from the pros that the NRO and NSA get much more than the CIA. If that number is correct, to do all they do and pay all their employees, launch and build and maintain all of their rockets, spy satellites, electronic eavesdropping, spy activities, and on and on would take, I'd think, many times that sum. So, the drug and arms running, plus the secret gold and such is all necessary - poor dears, flying by the seat of their pants with hardly two coins to rub together.