See also their theft of computing intellectual property https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_computing_technology_smuggling https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S

See also their theft of computing intellectual property https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_computing_technology_smuggling https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_computing_technology_... Radar theft: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1985/09/24/soviet-radar-allegedly-stolen-from-us/3a754179-c337-4d60-8471-2e7b1d76f6bd/?noredirect=on https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1985/09/24/s... Entire books were written on the subject. Here’s one: https://www.csmonitor.com/1984/1126/112610.html https://www.csmonitor.com/1984/1126/112610.html Reminds me of China today. “ Mueller, operating since 1974, is said by US officials to have set up some 41 dummy firms in Europe and Africa solely for the purpose of facilitating the diversion of sensitive US high tech. He is the technobandit said to be behind the now-famous attempted VAX computer diversion last year from South Africa to the Soviet Union via West Germany and Sweden. The diversion trail, as outlined by the authors, demonstrates the lengths to which determined smugglers may go to attempt to avoid detection. According to the authors, the sensitive computers were transferred from one of Mueller's South African firms, Microelectronics Research Institute (MRI) to another of his South African firms, Optronix. The computers were then resold to a Swiss firm, Integrated Time AG. The Swiss firm was a subsidiary of Mueller's German firm, Deutsche Integrated Time. In the meantime, the computers had been loaded on a ship bound for Sweden and the Soviet Union. The VAX computers in question had originally been legally licensed for export by the US government to MRI in South Africa, but under the condition that they not be resold or transhipped elsewhere.”