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3-12-96. TWP: "Making Connections With Dots To Decipher U.S. Spy Spending. Panel's Report Indirectly Discloses Details It Urged Keeping Secret." Buried in the commission's report is a chart that provides a striking account of previously secret spy spending and personnel levels for the CIA, NSA, DIA and NRO. The chart also confirms that the NSA, together with its various military service components employs the most people, a total of nearly 40,000 eavesdroppers and codebreakers. It appears to have an annual budget of around $3.7 billion. DOT_con