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Article: "High-tech hemorrhage" from U.S. to Soviet Union.
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- May 7, 1984
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From high-flying interceptors to missiles with pinpoint accuracy, the Soviet Union is deploying the latest products of defense technology--direct from United States laboratories.
Despite a major effort in the last three years to stem the "hemorrhage" of high-tech secrets, Reagan administration officials acknowledge that the flow from West to East has been slowed but by no means stopped.
Though forced to use ever more devious means, Moscow is still helping itself on a large scale to the latest wares of Western manufacturers. Recent cases show how the Soviets and their allies connive to get around Western export controls:
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