REPORT SAYS U.S. INVITES TECH PIRACY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 16, 2010
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: November 15, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Report says U.S. invites tech pig^ucy
United Press International
Soviet piracy of American high
technology has beets made easier by
the failure of U.S. intelligence agencies
to figure out just what the Kremlin is
after, a congressional report said yes-
terday.
By concentrating on trying to keep
the Soviets from getting everything,
the United States finds itself virtually
unable to protect anything, one senator
said.
The problem of stemming the flow
of valuable American know-how to
Moscow is outlined in a report pre-
pared by the Senate Permanent Sub-
committee on Investigations, to be filed
today.
The report was prepared by the
committee's Democratic staff after an
18-month inquiry. It says the Soviet
Union has succeeded in obtaining criti-
cal U.S. know-how - through black-
market purchase, evasion of export
controls or theft - in microelectronic,
laser, radar and precision equipment
manufacturing.
To control the drain. "We must diag-
nose precisely the nature of current
Soviet needs for our technology," the
report said. "Through improved intelli-
gence. the government must determine
what it is that the Soviets need and
want and then model its response
accordingly:"
Sen. Sam Nunn of Georgia, the sen-
ior Democrat on the panel, said the
Soviets have "finely tuned" their
efforts to focus on areas of American,
technology "most suited to their pre-
"By contrast, American efforts to
stem the transfer of technology have',
been largely unfocused and overly-
broad in scope;' he said. "By
attempting to control everything, we
have made it nearly impossible to ade-
quately control anything.'
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