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Updated 7/20/2006, By Matt Kelley, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON � U.S. intelligence agencies have invested millions of dollars since 9/11 on computer programs that search through financial, communications, travel and other personal records of people in the USA and around the world for connections to terrorism, according to public records and security experts.

The software is designed to find links between terrorism suspects and previously unknown people; track the international flow of money, operatives and materials; and search for clues in the worldwide communications over phone lines, wireless connections and Internet links.

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At least eight projects started under the controversial Total Information Awareness program continued after Congress disbanded the program in 2003, public records show. They include:

A software project by 21st Century Technologies Inc. of Austin, called Automated Detection, Identification and Tracking of Deceptive Terrorist Activity.

Research at the University of Connecticut to produce similar software that identifies patterns indicating possible terrorist activity in data about everyday transactions such as bank withdrawals and telephone calls.

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