10-27-96. NYP Book Review: SECRET AGENCIES U.S. Intelligence in a Hostile World. By Loch K. Johnson. 262 pp. New Haven: Yale University Press. $30. Johnson, formerly assistant to Les Aspin, aims to explain what the dozen American intelligence agencies actually do with $30 billion a year. Absent the cartoon heroics, it's not far from Tom Clancy. Mr. Johnson avoids mushy reflections on the human costs of covert action -- this book is clearly meant for policy wonks -- but does note that "the long-term consequences of covert actions have seldom been foreseen -- and have often proved detrimental to the United States." ----- http://jya.com/$30bil.txt (5 kb) Server's got lead in its. Try, try. ftp://jya.com/pub/incoming/$30bil.txt $30_bil