Re: economic espionage (@#$%^&*)

[Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>]

>>> >It was said that Pres. Clinton had given a speech while 
>>> >visiting the  CIA HQ in Langley/Virginia. He allegedly 
>>> >said in this speech that obtaining  industrial 
>>> >informations has the highest priority and this were the 
>>> >new  task for the spies.

Dr. John Deutsch, speaking to the National Press Club, also mentioned
economic espionage, with the State Department as a primary
customer, but was concerned about definitions of goals, etc.
He did reassure the NPC that the CIA would continue to work with
drug dealers and corrupt South American military and other scum
who have information to sell, as well as cooperating more closely 
with the FBI and DEA, but on the other hand he does apparently
view domestic operations as clearly outside the CIA's job.
One set of content in his speech was the planned combination of
the various satellite data interpretation organizations
into one group of CIA/Pentagon/NRO/NSA/etc.

ObCrypto: One questioner asked him about the growing use
of encoding and would the CIA be able to keep up eavesdropping on
people.  "We're very good at eavesdropping" was his main reply;
he did acknowledge that there was an issue but didn't go into 
the party line about needing to have escrow to get GAK.

Clinton, meanwhile, reassured guests at a $1000/plate fundraising 
lunch that the Republicans' economic plans would mainly affect
the poor and wouldn't trouble the rich too much...   :-)
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