Dictionary of the United States Intelligence Services: Over 1,500 Terms, Programs and Agencies

Whatever it is the United States can always be relied on to be there with the most and so it is in the field of intelligence. A United States senator has estimated that employees in the federal intelligence system now number 148,000 and this, we are told, excludes in‐house or contract agents and investigators. Another estimate has it that for every bugging device at the disposal of federal agencies there are 300 in the private sector. If we add communications, satellite and scientific personnel, then the American intelligence industry is booming as is confirmed by figures produced by The Federation...