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To: kumar who wrote (217653)	2/11/2007 9:57:00 AM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 281500

we'd have to be very careful in defining stole. If a specialist in the technonogy migrated elsewhere, and continued his/her profession - is it stolen goods ? Depends on the meaning of the word "steal". :o) Some people might claim that if someone got their information from a US university physics dept, that's "stolen" from the US. Legally, it's not. There was a dual-use technology [component] that someone tried to smuggle out of the US to Israel. That would be stolen. If you have US citizen working in a weapons laboratory, they are under an agreement to not disclose that technology elsewhere. If they were to go to Pakistan and spill their guts about the technology, they would be in violation of the law. Would Pakistan be guilty of "stealing"? We would probably use the word "stolen" loosely and say yes. At least I would. You might not and I wouldn't argue the point. Then again, you might argue that if it was Pakistan, it was stolen. If it was India, it wasn't stolen. jttmab