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After journalist Tim Shorrock’s 2008 investigation, U.S. officials confirmed that 70 percent of the U.S. intelligence budget goes directly to private companies working under contract to the CIA, the NSA, and other agencies. With the U.S. intelligence budget estimated at $60 billion a year, the outsourced business of intelligence is a $45 billion annual industry.
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Included are defense giants such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Raytheon; lesser-known but still influential companies such as Booz Allen Hamilton, SAIC, and CACI International; and dozens of Beltway Bandits that have set up shop in D.C. and environs to feed the government's insatiable appetite for contract intelligence.
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Originally posted by Schaden
Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle, and one of the heads of the board has spoken against the elites' plans for world domination, mass depopulation, global police state etc..He is one of the few people in the global elite who isn't with the program.
[edit on 15-1-2010 by Schaden]