Within the reconnaissance office's secret budget of $6 billion or more, the headquarters was buried in miscellaneous operating accounts.

They were using secret budgets to wrestle with the army and navy in Manchuria decades ago.

In 1949, Congress passed legislation authorizing the agency's secret budget and, by implication, its secret operations.

The money was withdrawn from the financing for next year's secret budget for intelligence programs, which had totaled nearly $29 billion.

The secret military budget will now be exposed to parliamentary review.

The proposed policy, regrettably, does not extend to secret budgets.

A positive portrayal can also help justify a partly secret budget to a skeptical public.

Mr. Darkin published the local budget - previously secret - and for the first time in years, kept the heat on all winter.

It may also result in greater disclosure of the agency's present workings, such as publicly revealing its officially secret budget.

What is this new targeting going to do to our own intelligence community, and its $18 billion secret budget?