Outside Firms Are Feasting on the Post-9/11 Spy Budget

You have to wonder how we won the Second World War with such a paltry spy budget.

After the massive intelligence failure that opened the doors for Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor 64 years ago this week, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Congress launched the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), America’s wartime spying and sabotage outfit, with a $10 million budget and 600 staffers. It took them only about a month.
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CQ Homeland Security (12/2/2005)