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The U.S. Response to
Economic Espionage
You might as well sell this to us. We are going to get it anyway.
FBI records quoting the US representative of a rm brokering
technology transfer to a major foreign power
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The Economic Espionage Act (EEA) is but one part of the various federal laws that can be applied
to various types of theft. Besides the EEA, there are the laws governing copyright and patent
protection and theft, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Trade Secrets Act, and a few others,
some of which seem minor, but could be put into play when absolutely necessary. Congress is
concerned about espionage, but its resp ...