WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! U.S. Spies Now Work for Big Business NewsMax.com Monday, July 3, 2000 In a shocking expose of the high-tech industrial espionage campaign launched by the Clinton administration on behalf of America’s industrial complex, Britain’s Independent newspaper explains "How America spies on us for its oldest friend – the Dollar." Calling it "The new cold war," the Independent charged that U.S. intelligence agencies such as the CIA and the supersecret National Security Agency (NSA) have filled in the gap left by the end of their cold war responsibilities by spying on foreign companies and helping to reap billions of dollars in overseas contracts for U.S. firms by supplying them with surreptitiously obtained inside information. Using the incredible capabilities of the hush-hush Echelon system the United States, Britain and Australia employ to eavesdrop on telephone calls, e-mail and faxes sent via satellite, U.S. spy agencies have intercepted communications between foreign governments and European businesses and turned their secrets over to American companies to help them win major overseas contracts. The paper charged that the use of intelligence agencies to help fatten the coffers of American companies got underway with the advent of the Clinton administration when it saw that the huge and then largely unemployed Cold War U.S. intelligence apparatus could be easily redirected against its Cold War allies’ economies. "At stake was not just routine international trade, but new opportunities created by the demise of communism and fast-growing markets in countries that US trade officials dubbed "BEMs" – Big Emerging Markets, such as China, Brazil and Indonesia," the newspaper revealed. One shocking case of the misuse of America’s highly sophisticated spy apparatus cited by the Independent "as the result of the new Clinton policy" was the January 1994 incident when French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur flew to Saudi Arabia to sign a $6 billion deal for armaments, airliners and maintenance, including sales of the European Airbus. "He flew home empty-handed," the paper reports. The reason: "[Using] a commercial communications satellite, NSA lifted all the faxes and phone-calls between the European consortium Airbus, the Saudi national airline and the Saudi government. The agency found that Airbus agents were offering bribes to a Saudi official. It passed the information to U.S. officials pressing the bid of Boeing Co.," the Baltimore Sun later reported. According to the Independent, "Clinton's government intervened with the Saudis and the contract went to Boeing." Another instance of the use of U.S. intelligence agencies playing a key role in a commercial deal concerned Brazil. "In 1994, NSA intercepted phone-calls between France's Thomson-CSF and Brazil concerning SIVAM, a $1.4 billion surveillance system for the Amazon rain forest. The company was alleged to have bribed members of the Brazilian government selection panel. The contract was awarded to the US Raytheon Corporation – which announced afterwards that ‘the Department of Commerce worked very hard in support of US industry on this project’ ". In still another, the CIA tracked British competitive strategies in a competition to build a 700MW power station near Bombay. In January 1995, the $400 million contract was awarded to the U.S. companies Enron, GE and Bechtel. Documents and information obtained by the Independent on Sunday revealed that the vital question of whether U.S. intelligence should be routinely employed to help U.S. business was resolved after Clinton’s election in 1993. He named top Democratic National Party fund-raisers, including the late Secretary of State for Commerce, Ron Brown, to senior posts and launched a policy "to aggressively support U.S. bidders in global competitions where advocacy is in the national interest". U.S. firms that have benefited from Clinton-sponsored industrial espionage have responded generously with campaign contributions to the Clinton/Gore campaigns and the Democratic National Committee, critics note. The core of what the paper called "the new, coordinated Clinton trade campaign is the 'Advocacy Center' inside the Department of Commerce" ... run by the US Department of Commerce’s ‘Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee.’ "Declassified minutes of the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee from 1994 show that the CIA's role in drumming up business for the US was not limited to looking for bribery, or even lobbying by foreign governments. For a series of meetings dealing with Indonesia, 16 officials were circulated with information. Five of the officials were from the CIA. Three of the five worked inside the Commerce Department itself, in a department called the ‘Office of Executive Support.’ The fifth, Robert Beamer, was from CIA headquarters." That office is nothing less than a high-security operation located inside the Commerce Department. It is staffed by CIA officials with top-secret security clearances and equipped with direct links to U.S. intelligence agencies. Until recently, it was known, more revealingly, as the "Office of Intelligence Liaison." Speaking of the use of Echelon and other spying mechanisms, Dr. Brian Gladwell, a British former top NATO computer expert, told the Independent: "The analogy I use is where we were 250 years ago with pirates on the high seas. Governments never admitted they sponsored piracy, yet they all did behind the scenes. If we now look at cyberspace we have state-sponsored information piracy. We can't have a global e-commerce until governments like the US stop state-sponsored theft of commercial information." The whole matter will be discussed this Wednesday when European officials meet in Strasbourg and Berlin to demand an investigation of the use of U.S. electronic espionage to beat foreign competitors. The meetings come in the wake of two years of controversy over Echelon and its awesome power, the sinister implications of which are only now emerging. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? 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