Black budget
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Official narrative
Wikipedia reports that "A black budget is a budget that is allocated for classified and other secret operations of a nation, a corporation, a society of any form, a national department, and so on. A black budget usually covers expenses related to military research and covert operations. The black budget is mostly classified due to security reasons."[1]
United states
Wikipedia further reports that "A black budget article by the Washington Post, based on information given by Edward Snowden, detailed how the US allocated $52.8 billion in 2012 for the black budget."[1]
Deep state
While it is important to acknowledge that government agencies do have access to billions of dollars of funds for use on secret, never disclosed operations, the black budgets which are measurable are in fact just the tip of the iceberg. Deep state, entirely off-the-books operations net vastly greater amounts (consider, for example, Donald Rumsfeld's spectacularly timed admission (on 2001-09-10) that $2.3 Trillion of funds in the Pentagon could not be properly accounted for. Noting further that it was the accounting department of the DIA in the Pentagon which suffered a hit on the next day, destroying staffers and records concerning to the missing funds, one begins to see that the nominal $56 billion is of only marginal importance in the scheme of things.[2]
An example
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| MI6/Black budget | Exposed in 2017, personally held by the MI6 chief without the knowledge of other members of MI6 until he retired from the service in 1952. Used to fund black ops, particularly in the Middle East. |
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