So are Obama's vacations.
If the state department is committing even one man hour to this project, then it is being subsidized by taxes.
TIGHAR has done numerous searches http://tighar.org/
also the book FINDING AMELIA by ric gillespie
earhart’s pacific flight was “spnsored” by the feds. they built and airstrip on an island for her anf the USCGC Taney (now in baltimore harbor) was involved in the search after she went missing.