
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, August 11, 1994                   TAG: 9408110066
SECTION: NATL/INTL                    PAGE: A15   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                 LENGTH: Short

CIA: CONGRESS WAS INFORMED OF BUILDING DETAILS

The CIA and the Pentagon insisted Wednesday they had fully disclosed to Congress the construction of a new $310 million headquarters for the agency that operates spy satellites.

The National Reconnaissance Office submitted a notebook full of documents to the Senate Intelligence Committee showing the administration had provided specifics on the planning, construction and cost of the buildings to Congress on at least nine occasions since 1990.

Despite the unusual public display of previously secret conflicts and details, senators complained they had been kept in the dark.

``We're still viewed as perhaps being too damn nosy,'' said Sen. John Warner, R-Va., who blamed the dispute on ``a cultural problem'' within the intelligence field that leads spy agencies to think they should be exempt from scrutiny.

- Associated Press

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