risk of economic espionage. The collapse of the Soviet Union has left

unemployed KGB and other former communist bloc intelligence agents

selling everything from Russian night vision devices to completely

and functional bugging devices. Even friendly western European

governments have been caught spying on private corporations based in the

U.S. and other countries, while industrial competitors sometimes hire

companies to collect competitive intelligence from their corporate

Lester:96). What exactly is economic espionage? how prevalent is it?

does it? How do they do it? and what can we do to stop it. These are the

questions that will be looked at in the following pages.

First lets look at, what exactly is economic espionage. Espionage and

intelligence is no longer the exclusive domain of monarchs and

it has become a must for modern international business. Large

around the world particularly in western Europe and Asia now hire

gather intelligence on their competitors and other countries. The goal

economic espionage is to steal trade secrets, plans and confidential

bee heard to say that the NSP is more effective than Israelis Mossad.

an idea of the scope of the problem. Peter Schweiser author of the book

Another tactic used in the world of corporate espionage is economic

Bugs and wire tapping is the next area examined by Murray.

technicians, and maintenance personal are also targeted. The latter may

paper by purchasing shredders appropriate to the needs of the company,

North American university and research centers. Generally everyone

beneficial technology transfer methodology. One country, in particular,

support South Korean industry. It was put into action in 1981. It

over another (Perry:1996). The areas that interest industrial spies

Next lets turn our attention toward Germany. Germany's intelligence

collection listed below are most often used for legitimate purposes.

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