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Can you give any example of where the US has been caught giving IP stolen from espionage, to a domestic business purely to give the business a better advantage?

Can you give any example of where the US has been caught giving IP stolen from espionage, to a domestic business purely to give the business a better advantage? Where there the IP had no military or security value? If they did this, which company benefited? Did all domestic companies in the same business get the same deal or only that one single lucky one?

nl 9y ago
In the 1990's the CIA was caught spying to attempt to improve the trade deal Hollywood got with France: http://articles.latimes.com/1995-10-11/news/mn-55816_1_cia-officials http://articles.latimes.com/1995-10-11/news/mn-55816_1_cia-o... In 2013 some Snowden papers showed how the CIA spied on the Brazilian oil company Petrobras: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/nsa-spying-brazil-oil-petrobras https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/nsa-spying-bra... The same papers included a 2009 proposal that the CIA move into industrial espionage: https://theintercept.com/2014/09/05/us-governments-plans-use-economic-espionage-benefit-american-corporations/ https://theintercept.com/2014/09/05/us-governments-plans-use.... The CIA says it was never acted on. And there is the Airbus issues too (which were purely to benefit Boeing - there was no military or defense issues with that) However, the official position is that the US spy agencies don't do industrial espionage: https://www.lawfareblog.com/why-did-doj-indict-chinese-military-officers https://www.lawfareblog.com/why-did-doj-indict-chinese-milit... One has to say their actions don't make this particularly clear though.