'SILICON VALLEY PRIME TARGET' FOR SOVIET HIGH-TECH PIRACY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404630046-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 16, 2010
• Sequence Number: 46
• Publication Date: November 15, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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USA TODAY
15 NOVEMBER 1982
`Silicon Valley prime target'
for Soviet high-tech piracy
By Sam LaSpada
USA TODAY
The United States must act
quickly to halt the theft of
America's advanced technol-
ogy, particularly in California's
"Silicon Valley," a prime target
of Soviet spies, a congressional
report said Sunday.
Soviet agents have acquired
critical information about mi- American safeguards have
cro-electronic, laser, radar and been "largely unfocused and
precision equipment manufac- overly broad in scope," said
taring in the Silicon Valley, the Georgia Sen. Sam Nunn, senior
report said. Democratic member of the
subcommittee.
About million in thefts "We have undercover agents
of electronic onic technology and
commodities have occurred in in many plants," said Jay
Santa Clara County over the Beardslee, a superviser at Call-
last five years, Deputy District fornia Plant Protection Inc.,
Attorney Douglas K Southard which guards about 75 percent
told the Senate Permanent
Subcommittee on Investiga-
tions.
The leaks have "permitted
the Soviets to systematically
build a modern micro-electron-
ics industry," the report states.
The problem "threatens our
national security," said sub-
committee Chairman William
Roth. R-Del.
of the plants in Silicon Valley.
Responsibility for restricting
the export of electronic infor-
mation should be taken away
from the "ineffective" Com-
merce Department, the report
recommended. Instead, the re-
sponsibility should shift to the
Customs Service which has-
agents trained to search for
trade violations.
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