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When they divvy up the $27 billion intelligence budget each year, it's not the well-known CIA that takes the lion's share. The real haul goes to an obscure agency called the National Reconnaissance Office, which builds and deploys the country's high-tech, supersecret spy satellites. For the billions of dollars it receives, the NRO produces portfolios of invaluable high-resolution pictures (which can indeed read license plates from space). The photos give the U.S. a jump on adversaries as diverse as North Korean missile builders and South American drug lords...
However, she has other things to worry about. Representative Dan Burton's Committee on Government Reform (which has always favored Freeh over Reno) was sending out subpoenas and watching the new tapes for signs of illegal involvement by "observers" from the Army's supersecret Delta Force. Led by chief investigative counsel Jim Wilson, the committee seems to be on the verge of starting up a fresh probe...
...extricate 53 American hostages held by Iranian militants. In a startlingly bold but tragic gamble, President Jimmy Carter had ordered a courageous, specially trained team of American military commandos to try to pluck the hostages out of the heavily guarded U.S. embassy in Tehran. The supersecret operation failed dismally...
...December. Early on, Shelby decided to hold Lake's nomination hostage to pry more documents out of the White House on everything from Haiti to Lake's stock holdings to the campaign-finance scandal. Administration officials tell TIME that a Shelby aide even drove the 35 miles to the supersecret National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland, to ask if the NSA had any information on the nominee. The NSA shooed the aide away but alerted the CIA and the White House about the approach...
From the start, agents knew they were just peering at tea leaves. The two investigators from the FBI's supersecret "Division Five," as the national-security arm is called, reported to the White House on June 3, 1996. In their briefcases they carried classified information that even they didn't fully understand. A surveillance operation launched earlier that year by the satellite spymasters at the National Security Agency had alerted the FBI that the Chinese government might be planning an effort to funnel money into American politics...