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The U.S. Governments Secret Plans to Spy for American Corporations
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Intercept
Posted: September 15th, 2014
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/05/us-governments...
Throughout the last year, the U.S. government has repeatedly insisted that it does not engage in economic and industrial espionage, in an effort to distinguish its own spying from Chinas infiltrations of Google, Nortel, and other corporate targets. [But] the NSA was caught spying on plainly financial targets such as the Brazilian oil giant Petrobras; economic summits; international credit card and banking systems; the EU antitrust commissioner investigating Google, Microsoft, and Intel; and the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. In response, the U.S. modified its denial to acknowledge that it does engage in economic spying, but unlike China, the spying is never done to benefit American corporations. But a secret 2009 report issued by [Director of National Intelligence James Clapper's] office explicitly contemplates doing exactly that. The document, the 2009 Quadrennial Intelligence Community Reviewprovided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowdenis a fascinating window into the mindset of Americas spies. One of the principal threats raised in the report is a scenario in which the United States technological and innovative edge slips in particular, that the technological capacity of foreign multinational corporations could outstrip that of U.S. corporations. How could U.S. intelligence agencies solve that problem? The report recommends a multi-pronged, systematic effort to gather open source and proprietary information through overt means, clandestine penetration (through physical and cyber means), and counterintelligence.
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