NRO Slush Fund

URL: http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/front/spy-agency-money.html January 30, 1996 Spy Agency Said to Have Spare Billions The National Reconnaissance Office, the secret agency that builds spy satellites, lost track of more than $2 billion in classified money last year, largely because of its own internal secrecy, intelligence officials say. In the past, congressional oversight of the reconnaissance office has been sketchy, because few members of Congress understood the highly technical language of spy satellites and some did not know what they were approving when they authorized billions of dollars a year in secret spending.