GENERAL POST-WORLD WAR II

Counterintelligence Aspects of Economic Intelligence

Corporate

"The White House has released the first annual report to Congress on economic espionage. Produced by the National Counterintelligence Center, the report states that a number of countries target the U.S. despite their friendly relations with the U.S. The FBI has in the past said that the Russians are still a major economic espionage problem. It identified computer breakins and telephone intercepts as accounting for the largest portion of lost economic information. Other methods were recruiting company insiders, office or hotel- room thefts, use of foreign students studying in the U.S., use of foreign employees of U.S. firms, and use of front organizations and joint ventures." Harvey, "Intelligence Notes," AIJ, 16.1, p. 94.

Unsinger, IJI&C 2.1: This is a "generalized security text for someone unfamiliar with the security field in general and industrial espionage in particular.... The style is good.... For someone new to the security topic, it is a good book."

Hamilton, Peter.

1. Espionage and Subversion in an Industrialized Society: An Examination and Philosophy of Defense for Management. London: Hutchinson, 1967.

Hamilton's is an early work on a topic -- industrial and economic espionage -- now much more in vogue than when this insightful conceptualization was published.

2. Espionage, Terrorism and Subversion in an Industrial Society. Surrey, UK: Bookmag, 1974. [Wilcox]

Kalitka, Peter F. "The Equalizer Versus Competitive Intelligence." American Intelligence Journal 17, no. 1/2 (1996): 43-45.

The "equalizer" in this article is industrial counterintelligence activities that are both reactive and, at times, proactive in nature.

Strong, J. Thompson. "Tilting with Machiavelli: Fighting Competitive Espionage in the 1990s." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 7, no. 2 (Summer 1994): 161-174.

"Counter-C.E. is the ultimate bottom line issue."

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