Intelligence Spending: Public Disclosure Issues

Best, Richard A., Jr. ; Bazan, Elizabeth B.

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Intelligence activities;    Defense economics;    Defense budgets;    Intelligence activities - Appropriations;    Government information;   

RP-ID  :  94-261
RP-ID  :  94-261_2007Feb15

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report describes the constituent parts of the intelligence budget, past practice in handling intelligence authorizations and appropriations, the arguments that have been advanced for and against making intelligence spending totals public, a legal analysis of these issues, and a review of the implications of post-Cold War developments on the question. It also describes past congressional interest in keeping intelligence spending totals secret.