Orbit of influence: spy finance and the black budget.
Although there is a legitimate place for secret intelligence operations in the modern state, political circumstances might suggest that the “intelligence-industrial complex,” like other government-dependent industries, is due for serious downsizing. A strong argument can be made that the cash outla...
| Published in: | American Prospect no. 25; pp. 30 - 37 |
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March/April 1996
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