In article <bnc138$28q7$1@pencil.math.missouri.edu>, bigmedicine@riseup.net
says...

".....a congressional investigation revealed that the National 
Reconnaissance Office (NRO), a supersecret agency whose existence was 
publicly acknowledged only a few years ago, lost track of a $2 billion 
slush fund because it was so highly classified even top intelligence 
officials had no control over it."

This piece was written a few years ago.

Orbit of Influence: Spy Finance and the Black Budget 
By Robert Dreyfuss
http://memes.org/modules.php?
op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2127&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

or

http://makeashorterlink.com/?H28B23356

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Also see:

Resurrecting the Ptech story
http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=356997&group=webcast

TRW owned by Carlyle Group 
http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=356666&group=webcast 

9-11, John Deutch, Mitre Corp., the NRO, and the late Prince Ahmed bin 
Salman bin Abdul Aziz 
http://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/whistleblowers/2003-10/msg00024.html 

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