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Subtitle: the Pentagon's black budget
By: by Tim Weiner.
Publisher: Warner Books
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
Subjects: United States. Dept. of Defense -- Appropriations and expenditures; United States. Dept. of Defense -- Accounting; Official secrets -- United States; Defense information, Classified -- United States; United States -- Armed Forces -- Appropriations and expenditures; United States -- Armed Forces -- Accounting; United States -- Military policy; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1981-1989
Description: The story of the Pentagon's secret budget--the black budget. The first detailed look into the multibillion-dollar cache used to fund every defense program, every espionage mission, every weapon, and every war that the President, the Secretary of Defense and the Director of the CIA want erased from the public ledger and shielded from public debate.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-264) and index.