It is expensive, the lead times are long, and the targets may change before we are done. Most important, with satellites we very often have significant uncertainties about whether or not a launch will be successful, or the lifespan of the satellites themselves. We need significant amounts of efforts in research and development to explore new technologies, but we also need to pay our employees and run our current operations, and money, we all know, is tight. We need to explore dual use of intelligence technologies because if the private sector buys some of these things for their own different purposes, the unit cost to the intelligence agency will decrease. But we have to ensure we don't lose sensitive sources and methods in the process.
Secrecy poses yet another challenge.
With the passage of the Soviet threat, a threat that could extinguish our national life, secrecy is less acceptable and should be fundamentally challenged. We still need some secrecy. We could not otherwise collect and safeguard other people's secrets. But we should challenge blanket secrecy wherever we find it, and we should support Director Deutch's declassification efforts. Secrecy connotes trust, Mr. President, as I said at the beginning.