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The European Parliament report is here: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//...

Here is an example:

Who: NSA, What: Wind wheel for electricity generation, developed by Aloys Wobben, an engineer from East Frisia, Aim: Forwarding of technical details of Wobben's wind wheel to a US firm, Consequences: US firm patents the wind wheel before Wobben; (breach of patent rights)

Sounds exactly like "stealing trade secrets and giving them to a domestic company" to me.



I couldn't find the original source "Aktenkriegerì, SZ, 29 March 2001", but it sounds like a news report. If you can find the source, I would be happy to read it and judge it based upon its reported sources.


The European Parliament report cites a single journalist, Nicky Hager. This particular allegation was based on interviews with anonymous French intelligence sources.

Basically, the French government selectively leaked to a New Zealand journalist, to justify retaliation (tariffs at the EU level, which never materialized) against the US government for burning their Saudi deal.

There has never been any credible evidence that US intelligence agencies pass trade secrets to American companies.


http://www.windpowermonthly.com/article/960011/trans-atlanti...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enercon#Patent_dispute "the patent in question was registered in 1991, three years before the alleged espionage event"




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