Teaching about ‘area 51’? How to Cover Secret Government Technology and Capabilities in Intelligence Studies Courses
According to a report by the DoD Inspector General, an audit of the Pentagon's budget for Fiscal Year 1999 indicated that $2.3 trillion dollars in accounting items out of an overall of $6.9 trillion "were not supported by adequate audit trails or sufficient evidence to determine their validity."Even if most of the $2.3 trillion can be written off due to waste, corruption, and poor accounting practices, one has to wonder how much of the money was used for funding highly classified technology development projects or 'black' operations.'