Word: steals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today, however, many companies and countries pursue corporate secrets like sharks in a frenzy at feeding time. As Japan, the Soviet Union and Western countries vie with ever increasing intensity for industrial power, the pressure to save years of research time and expense by stealing know-how has created an industrial espionage epidemic. In West Germany, where intrigue has been a way of life since the onset of the cold war, last year for the first time there were more known cases of business spying than of political espionage. In the U.S., thefts of secrets ranging from technological breakthroughs...
...Francisco Soviet consulate are members of the KGB, the Soviet espionage agency. Says Senator William Roth of Delaware: "There is no doubt that the Soviets have undertaken a massive, well-financed, expertly coordinated program to systematically acquire as much of our high technology as they can steal, purchase through middlemen, or otherwise appropriate." Declares Los Angeles FBI Chief Richard Bretzing: "We've been losing some highly classified secrets...
...leaks flow through known, but hard-to-plug, channels. Highly paid operatives may buy equipment from unwitting U.S. firms and ship it to Communist countries through foreign shell companies. Or thieves with no direct interest in espionage may steal advanced electronic gear from manufacturers and sell it to underground dealers in Southern California. They, in turn, offer it to all comers, with no questions asked. In one ingenious act of deception, Soviet engineers touring an aircraft plant reportedly wore sticky shoes that picked up metal filings that could later be analyzed...
...class structure, sensitivity rises triumphant. Says Ponyboy: "What kind of a world is it where all I have to be proud of is a reputation for being a hood, and greasy hair? I don't want to be a hood, but even if I don't steal things and mug people and get boozed up, I'm marked lousy. Why should I be proud of it? Why should I even pretend to be proud...
...Mitsui action was the third one filed against Japanese 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...