An investigative reporter's cautionary overview of a persistent
problem for American industry: the theft of its vital technology by
friend and foe alike. Drawing on a wealth of sources, Wall Street
Journal correspondent Fialka offers a coherent (if anecdotal)
briefing on the economic-espionage campaigns that have been waged
against the US down through the years, as well as a broad
assessment of their impact on commerce and national security. While
the erstwhile Soviet Union was the first to make an organized
effort to obtain classified information from America's defense
contractors, it was not the last. Such putative allies as France,
Israel, and Japan routinely gather intelligence on Uncle Sam's
mercantile secrets, as do mainland China and a host of lesser Asian
lights. Although the stakes are no longer mortal (as during the
Cold War), the author points out that the costs in terms of lost
jobs and sales are considerable - and mounting. Employing case
studies from the files of federal prosecutors, he illustrates the
ways in which foreign nations exploit the bedrock institutions of
an open society (e.g., by infiltrating student spies into US
universities and their affiliated research laboratories) to keep
themselves abreast of advances in the biosciences, solid-state
electronics, space-age weaponry, and other fast-growth fields.
Covered as well are: the vulnerability of America's telephone
system along with other computer-based communications links; the
refusal of business and government to acknowledge that US resources
(and riches) are being siphoned off by enterprising thieves from
abroad; and the ominous privatization of well-trained KGB
operatives in a Russia which still finds it more convenient to
steal than to develop state-of-the-art technology. A timely,
tough-minded, and persuasively documented reminder that some of the
Global Village's states do not play as fair as others. (Kirkus
Reviews)
"The best book yet on the threat to American business posed by industrial spies. . . . Historians may well turn to Fialka's book for a quick study."—John Mintz, Washington Post
In this action-filled journey through tomorrow's headlines, award-winning journalist John Fialka reveals a secret war that jeopardizes the economic security of the United States and the livelihood of millions of Americans. The battlefield is now economic rather than ideological, but espionage in the 1990s springs directly from the ruins of the Cold War spy regimes. Newly configured, the covert operations of America's enemies-and friends-threaten to hollow out the U.S. economy and siphon away the jobs and technologies we need to remain competitive in the twenty-first century.
From Russia's brazen shopping tours for U.S. secrets to the subtle art of technology "tunneling" by the Japanese, this book illuminates a loss that is widely felt, but not often seen or understood. Fialka's incisive reporting and trenchant analysis expose an attack on the American economy so deadly as to constitute a time-lapse Pearl Harbor; his book outlines the hard choices we must make if we are to survive.
"A timely, tough-minded, and persuasively documented reminder that some of the Global Village's states do not play as fair as others."—Kirkus Reviews
"Reads] like a spy thriller. . . . A revealing book that we ignore at our peril."—Publishers Weekly
"Anyone concerned about America's economic future, our declining standard of living, and the battle for world markets would be well advised to read this book."—Peter Schweizer, Raleigh News and Observer
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