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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 374912, member: 4626&quot;]Flaw in that reasoning is that the costs involved in producing counterfeits of that quality would exceed the nominal value of the notes produced done on as small of a scale as this.&nbsp; If the CIA or some other organization wished to use this to conceal the source of money, how would they account for the cost of the needed equipment?&nbsp; It would make no sense to spend $2 to conceal the source of $1.</p><p><br /></p><p>No funding is truly secret from the US either... every dollar has to be accounted for, somewhere.&nbsp; Classified operations require a high enough security clearance to be allowed to see the specific funding for them... but somebody, somewhere, knows about it.&nbsp; Not even the CIA is exempt from congressional oversight.&nbsp; A congressman from the correct committee could receive a classified briefing if they were so motivated.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suppose it&#039;s possible that some congressmen know and choose not to say anything out of respect for national security.&nbsp; However logic dictates if they are those willing to fund certain operations secretly, why not just fund them directly and not bother to go through the effort to produce counterfeit currency, at a higher cost than the face value of the counterfeits, that can be detected as counterfeits with modern bank equipment?&nbsp; The cost of the equipment needed to do so is no easier to conceal than the money itself anyway... I just can&#039;t see it as making any sense whatsoever.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s a reason I have trouble believing in large-scale conspiracies.&nbsp; In order to work and remain secret, a rediculously huge number of people would have to be in on it and manage to conceal their actions and keep them secret.&nbsp; It defies all common sense that the CIA, or any other American organization, could run an operation of this scale without <i>someone</i> finding out about it.&nbsp; The previous president couldn&#039;t even have oral sex with an intern in the privacy of his own office without it being on the front page of every newspaper in the world within the month.&nbsp; What do you think the realistic chance is the CIA, or any other AMerican orgainzation, could keep this secret?&nbsp; The fact that people are even publically speculating about the possibility, already questions the CIA&#039;s involvement... if they can&#039;t do it openly, and they can&#039;t keep it a secret... all logic points to it not being worth it for them to bother.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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