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Only three months earlier. IBM security men helped the FBI pull off another sting by nabbing five employees of Hitachi, Ltd., and Mitsubishi Electric Corp., two leading Japanese electronics firms. They were accused of conspiring to transport stolen IBM property out of the U.S. In the same investigation, a middle manager of National Advanced Systems, a subsidiary of California-based National Semiconductor Corp., was arrested for receiving stolen goods. Last week IBM filed suit against Hitachi and National Semiconductor, charging them with unfair competition through the use of confidential IBM materials...
...recently been on the Japanese, the Soviets are the main focus of Operation Exodus and other campaigns. Insiders say that what the press had dubbed the Japan-scam sting operation was really a trap laid for Communist agents. In that case, the FBI arrested employees of Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and charged them with conspiring to transport stolen IBM computer secrets from California's Silicon Valley, near San Francisco, to Japan...
...firms in the past month. On June 30 the FBI charged Hitachi Ltd., Japan's fourth largest computer maker, and 14 of its employees with conspiring to steal IBM secrets. Last week a federal grand jury in San Francisco handed down similar indictments stemming from the case against Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and four of its employees...
...professor emeritus of the prestigious Tokyo Institute of Technology: "Our mercantile image has once again been tarnished. We Japanese are now being regarded as a scheming bunch of villains around the U.S. It will take years for us to improve our image to what it had been before Hitachi, Mitsubishi and Mitsui were caught." The land where saving face is all important is now worried about losing face...
...Tokyo, Hitachi and Mitsubishi executives grudgingly admitted that their companies had made payments to FBI agents for IBM documents. They argued, however, that their employees considered Glenmar to be a legitimate research firm, selling information obtained through legal channels. Said a statement from Mitsubishi: "These accusations appear to have arisen out of a terrible mistake by U.S. Government authorities...