Bill Adds to Intelligence Budget
Code-breakers and spy masters would receive more money under an intelligence bill approved Thursday by the Senate Intelligence Committee.
The intelligence budget finances the CIA, National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies and is secret, although it is widely estimated at more than $30 billion.
Intelligence Committee Chairman Bob Graham (D-Fla.) called the money in the bill “the first installment of a multiyear effort to correct serious deficiencies that have developed over the past decade in the intelligence community.”
The intelligence authorization bill, which establishes the agencies’ operating budgets for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, did not disclose amounts of increase over the fiscal 2001 spending.
The National Security Agency, which already receives the largest share of intelligence dollars, will receive more for its “revitalization,” the committee said in a statement.
The NSA gathers and analyzes information from broadcasts, computers and other electronic means of communication.
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