France heads industrial espionage: WikiLeaks cables

[Lars77]

Source: Herald Sun

FRANCE is the country that conducts the most industrial espionage on other European countries, even ahead of China and Russia, said leaked US diplomatic cables quoted today by Norway's Aftenposten.

"French espionage is so widespread that the damages (it causes) the German economy are larger as a whole than those caused by China or Russia," an undated note from the US embassy in Berlin said, according to a Norwegian translation by Aftenposten.

The Norwegian daily of reference said last month it had obtained all the 250,000 US diplomatic cables WikiLeaks had accessed and would publish stories based on them independently of the whistleblowing website's own releases.

Its article based on leaked cables included an October 2009 comment from Berry Smutny, the head of German satellite company OHB Technology, quoted in the diplomatic note.

Read more: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/france-heads-industrial-espionage-wikileaks-cables/story-e6frf7jx-1225982019775

[Hardrada]

1. "Useless to talk," said the French spy.

[pam4water]

2. The Chinese don't have to spy. We are stupid enough to out source all are production to them.

[molly77]

3. Well, China does have an advantage. They pay for the US to operate.