Cold War espionage and mode of thinking still dominates the country 's intelligence work now (data map ) Reuters columnist 16 published a feature arti

Cold War espionage and mode of thinking still dominates the country 's intelligence work now (data map )

Reuters columnist 16 published a feature article on DSM to disclose U.S. intelligence spending status quo , saying the United States has 5% of the world 's population , 23% a year to create the world's wealth , but for intelligence work Funds accounted for more than two-thirds of the world's intelligence spending .

Spy Game prevalent than during the Cold War the United States , the United States today is worse than invest in intelligence .

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Intelligence gathering , intelligence analysis, covert action , counter- espionage operations and funding requirements of military intelligence operations constitute the main body of U.S. intelligence spending . Over the years , the U.S. Government has been spending as a state secret intelligence mollified .

Debusmann in the article quoted a retired four-star general in September last year, Dennis Blair, the disclosure of annual intelligence spending figures : 750 million. Dennis Blair is the current president, Barack Obama , appointed in January last year, the national intelligence director, submitted his resignation in May of this year .

75 billion U.S. dollars in the size of how much ?

Pennsylvania School of Information Studies scholars within the Christian Heap spending this year on assessing the global intelligence . He believes that today, countries around the world each year for information about the industry 's spending about 106 billion U.S. dollars , a total of about 113 246 people in the world are engaged in various intelligence agencies within the intelligence work .

In accordance with these figures, the United States each year over intelligence expenditure reported added value .

The U.S. population accounts for 5% of the world's annual economic output accounted for 23% of the world .

Running out of Utah in

Speaking of espionage history, the Cold War represents . At that time, the United States and Soviet Union, the spy case of the frequent , both sides know this fact, understand each other .

Today, when the United States and Russia spying incident has once again surfaced , the American officials catch-phrase is: the Cold War is over .

Running out of real espionage during the Cold War over?

Debusmann , said in the article , included currency devaluation and other economic factors , the U.S. intelligence during the Cold War 's annual expenditure on today, the same as the current 15 billion U.S. dollars .

During the Cold War , Soviet infiltration of U.S. intelligence , in terms of capital investment, the number of spies , counter- espionage size, intelligence analysis and other aspects , superior than the United States . Today, the United States has been generous in providing intelligence, Russia can not match .

gold, well-known Soviet agents , the former " KGB "anti- spyware is responsible for foreign people , this month to accept an interview broadcast media revealed the disintegration of the former Soviet Union in 1991 , the KGB team total of 496 000 persons People .

" the shadow of this mammoth Soviet army did not change history, " Kalugin said .

Analogy with the United States today to drop heavily to the information industry, how to produce much in return?

Throwing money to listen to sound

" Sometimes , we feel that the true value for money ; but sometimes , we feel that if the money is not transported to the parking lot with a fire truck , "the Washington think tank, " Global Security " director John Pike said .

Parker 's point is that the money thrown into the water, children can not even have sound , such as the 2001 "9.11 "terrorist attacks , the U.S. intelligence agencies virtually no response , committed the most serious since the Cold War Malfeasance .

Column that the United States spent heavily to build an advanced high-tech electronic information network , the network in the "9.11" before the collection to 123,000 hours and hit the monitor, tape recording , but no one can analyze the time Data , because the recording of the sound does not speak English.

Debusmann , said , "9.11" incident, the United States realized that a misunderstanding of information , that is , the traditional intelligence gathering all energies toward weapons of mass destruction and conventional weapons destruction and the threat of the United States , while ignoring The threat of terrorism against the United States .

Then , in 2004, an "Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act " introduced, accompanied by the emergence of a new post , national intelligence director .

However, this reform in addition to spending more than show what effect ?

Earlier this year , the U.S. Congressional Research Service, made five-year assessment of intelligence reform , it is recommended not to overestimate the effect of this reform , but we can not reduce funding . Assessment report , said: " can not say , you put 50% more than the budget , wanted to immediately get the next financial year more than 50% of intelligence analysis . "