The CIA As Economic Spy: 1992
The Misuse of U.S. Intelligence After the Cold War
by Stanley Kober
Stanley Kober is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute.
(are you familiar with the CATO insitute, kindo Ayn Rand, that daughter of St Petersburg,
built on some 100,000 bones)
cato.org
In an earlier
interview with Time, Gates had insisted that although the CIA would "not
do commercial spying," the agency could "be helpful on economic
intelligence, by identifying foreign governments that are involved in
unfair practices," including cases "where they are colluding with
businesses in their country to the disadvantage of the U.S."(3)
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Most participants embraced the logic expressed earlier by
former CIA director Stansfield Turner, who told the committee that
economics "is a primary area of intelligence in the 1990s." He asked
rhetorically, "If we spy for military security, why shouldn't we spy for
economic security?"(4) Sen. John Danforth (R-Mo.) echoed those
sentiments, contending, "Economic intelligence is going to be
increasingly important to our country."(5)
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