[FYI] ECHELON for combat of european "national culture" of bribery?

[Axel H Horns]

http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/special/ech/6662/1.html

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Former CIA Director Says US Economic Spying Targets "European 
Bribery"  

Duncan Campbell   12.03.2000  

"We have spied on that in the past. I hope ... that the United States 
government continues to spy on bribery."  

Former United States Central Intelligence Agency director James 
Woolsey confirmed in Washington this week that the US steals economic 
secrets "with espionage, with communications [intelligence], with 
reconnaissance satellites", and that there was now "some increased 
emphasis" on economic intelligence.  

He claimed that economic spying was justified because European 
companies had a "national culture" of bribery and were the "principle 
offenders from the point of view of paying bribes in major 
international contracts in the world".  

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