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When classified papers must be taken from N.S.A. to other agencies,
employees must not go alone if they use a private car but must travel in
pairs. They must keep the papers in a locked briefcase and must store
them overnight in a safe stowage either at the other agency or at N.S.A.;
they may not take them home.
Among the agency's deep secrets is its annual budget. N.S.A. does not
appear in the federal budget. All its funds, like those of the C.I.A., are
cunningly concealed by adding a few million dollars to each of several
line items in other parts of the budget. The chiefs of the agencies whose
budget figures are thus padded know only that the money
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is for a classified project, but in many cases Congress is told in
executive sessions what the figures are for these projects. The Secretary
of Defense can legally shift the funds from one unit to another, within
certain limits. Unlike the C.I.A., N.S.A
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