US and UK agencies openly state that their mission includes economic interests e.g. http://www.gchq.gov.uk/how_we_work/running_the_business/oversight/Pages/the

US and UK agencies openly state that their mission includes economic interests e.g. http://www.gchq.gov.uk/how_we_work/running_the_business/oversight/Pages/the-law.aspx http://www.gchq.gov.uk/how_we_work/running_the_business/over... "We are primarily a foreign-focused intelligence agency, with a signals intelligence role that can only be exercised for three limited purposes: In the interests of national security In the interests of the economic well-being of the UK In support of the prevention or detection of serious crime."