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Friendly Spies: How America's Allies Are Using Economic Espionage to Steal Our Secrets

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One hundred billion dollars annually is one White House estimate of the cost to U.S. businesses imposed by economic espionage carried out predominantly by our allies-France, Israel, Germany, South Korea, and Japan being among the top culprits. Peter Schweizer was the first to really put this issue on the table, and he deserves a lot of credit. Neither Congress nor the Administration are yet prepared to take this issue seriously, and this is a grave mistake, for in the 21st Century information is the seed corn of prosperity, and our allies are eating our seed corn.

Schweizer has certainly done extensive and compelling research into the murky world of economic espionage. He raises some red flags that should not be ignored. However this book stops near its publication date of the mid-1990s, and that makes its content "dated". Are we doing better today? If I have to read about it from another book by Schweizer, I will probably pass on it. I found the presentation more like a textbook than a "page-turner" -- instead of saying "I could hardly put it down, I find myself recalling that I could hardly pick it up -- sometimes reading only a single page in a day.

Still, if you are interested in the clinical history of our "friends" stealing us blind for technolgical information, and bid-jumping -- hey give it a shot!