ABSTRACT
The personnel complement for the intelligence service would have to be excluded from the general statement of personnel in the defence establishment, which normally circulated as Secret Annex No. 1 to the budget proposal. The task of auditing the secret accounts was becoming increasingly burdensome for Thor Sire as the years went by, and the Control Committee was not functioning according to intentions. In practice, the NIS would from 1959 operate with a number of different budgets and accounts. First came its share of what may be called the regular national budget, one part of which was unspecified as it covered the salaries of the permanent staff officers. Next came the Special Preparedness budget, which contained the ordinary budget for salaries and running costs of the intelligence service part of which was unspecified. Two years later, in January 1966, the intelligence service again appeared on the agenda of the Cabinet Defence and Security Committee, this time as the first item.
