US intelligence budget disclosed
BBC News
The US has revealed that it has spent $43.5bn (£21bn) on intelligence during 2007, the first time the figure has been made public in almost a decade.
Intelligence chief Mike McConnell said he would give no breakdown of how the money was spent, saying that disclosure could harm national security.
The disclosure was made to comply with a law passed by Congress last year.
The 2007 sum, split among 16 agencies, is almost double what was spent in 1997 and 1998, the last budgets made public.
According to legislation signed into law by US President George W Bush, total intelligence spending must be revealed 30 days after the end of the fiscal year, on 30 September.
Exactly where the money goes remains classified, but a share will go on salaries for an estimated 100,000 people, among them intelligence analysts and spies, the Associated Press reports.
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The US has revealed that it has spent $43.5bn (£21bn) on intelligence during 2007, the first time the figure has been made public in almost a decade.
Intelligence chief Mike McConnell said he would give no breakdown of how the money was spent, saying that disclosure could harm national security.
The disclosure was made to comply with a law passed by Congress last year.
The 2007 sum, split among 16 agencies, is almost double what was spent in 1997 and 1998, the last budgets made public.
According to legislation signed into law by US President George W Bush, total intelligence spending must be revealed 30 days after the end of the fiscal year, on 30 September.
Exactly where the money goes remains classified, but a share will go on salaries for an estimated 100,000 people, among them intelligence analysts and spies, the Associated Press reports.
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