Hidden Cost of Freedom: The Untold Story of the Cia’s Secret Funding System, 1941-1962

＂The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an agency of the US government whose funding is kept secret. How is it possible for a government agency to be exempt from providing ＂a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures＂? In Hidden Cost of Freedom, Brad Fisher chronicles the origins and administrative inner workings of the CIA’s clandestine financial system＂--