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Did you leave out the <sarcasm> flag somewhere? The Boeing-Airbus case had probably the highest 'household recognition' among examples of US intelligence workin
by georgecmu 9y ago
Did you leave out the <sarcasm> flag somewhere? The Boeing-Airbus case had probably the highest 'household recognition' among examples of US intelligence working in corporate interests, but it was far from an isolated incident.
https://www.ft.com/content/e86fdad0-42d9-11e3-9d3c-00144feabdc0 https://www.ft.com/content/e86fdad0-42d9-11e3-9d3c-00144feab...
A lesson was learnt in 1994 when France lost out on a big aerospace contract for Airbus in Saudi Arabia to Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, apparently after a phone call by the then prime minister Edouard Balladur, in which he discussed the terms Airbus had offered, was intercepted by US intelligence.
- strictnein 9y agoUhh, France's corporate espionage dwarfs this "apparent" episode, whose evidence is apparently a throwaway line in a FT article? Your source: a random line in an article about an episode that occurred 23 years ago during the Clinton administration. My source: a well researched book covering the entire history of modern espionage with a significant portion dedicated to corporate espionage, with specific mention of the Clinton administration's handling of this topic.