Number: 94-261 Title: Intelligence Spending: Public Disclosure Issues Authors: Richard A. Best, Jr., Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division; Elizabeth B. Bazan, American Law Division Abstract: This report describes the constituent parts of the intelligence budget, past practice in handling intelligence authorizations and appropriations, the arguments that have been advanced for and against making intelligence spending totals public, a legal analysis of these issues, and a review of the implications of post-Cold War developments on the question. It also describes past congressional interest in keeping intelligence spending totals secret. Pages: 42 Date: February 15, 2007