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...active spying on U.S. companies lately has not been by agents from old cold-war adversaries. Instead, the spies are employed by allies, including Germany, South Korea and even Canada. Among the most relentless -- and efficient -- have been the Israeli secret services. Last year Recon/Optical, a suburban Chicago military contractor, charged the Israeli air force with trying to steal the blueprints for a top-secret airborne spy camera. The Israelis agreed to settle the case by paying $3 million in damages. The French intelligence service recruited moles in the European branch offices of IBM, Texas Instruments and other U.S. electronics...
Walsh--who was indicted on 59 counts of bank fraud last October for allegedly falsifying documents to obtain mortgages and finance his condominium ventures-- said he knew Bedinger as an independent contractor. Walsh called Bedinger "a very decent person...
...independent contractor, Esposito quietly built the chamber 18 months ago beneath his home, a converted garage behind the house where he grew up. So well concealed that police posted on the property did not suspect it was there, the room could be reached only by using a block and tackle to lift a 200-lb. concrete trapdoor hidden beneath a carpet. Then it was necessary to climb down a 7-ft. ladder to a narrow passage that led to the mini-dungeon. Though it had only a camp toilet, the room was equipped with ventilation and a closed-circuit...
...granite block slated to fill a hole in Weld Hall disappeared from the dorm's reconstruction site on January 9, the general contractor said yesterday...
...contractor had originally planned to discard the block because the hole was going to hold a fire hose. But when the fire department ordered the location of the hose changed, the block was nowhere to be found, Thomas said...