Part one: Black budgets and public accountability
The problem of funding a national intelligence service
The General Accounting Office
Part two: Secret intelligence funding in wartime
The office of strategic services
The OSS Special Funds Branch
The Central Intelligence Group
Part Three: Secret intelligence funding in peacetime
Public oversight of the atomic bomb
The protagonist, the enabler, and the antagonist
Legalizing the working fund
The Central Intelligence Agency act of 1949
Part four: The CIA, the GAO, the cold war, and the CIA act of 1949
The Military-Intelligence-Industrial Complex
Clandestine financial administration
CIA-GAO liaison under the CIA Act of 1949
Secret programs under the CIA Act of 1949
The end of public accountability
