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Article: OPINION: Book on Industrial Espionage Could Use More Spies, Fewer Lawyers.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
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- December 27, 2000
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Dec. 24--Industrial espionage is nothing new. Lowell, Mass., in fact, is named in honor of a crafty 19th Century New Englander, Francis Cabot Lowell, who supposedly stole the design of Edmund Cartwright's textile power loom during a trip to England. Replication of the blueprints from Lowell's photographic memory helped the Industrial Revolution take hold in America. (Or so the story goes.) It's accepted that nations' intelligence departments spy on each other for defensive purposes, but many have also done so for competitive industrial reasons -- now, in fact more than ever.
Adam L. Penenberg's new book, Spooked, is subtitled "Corporate Espionage in America," so ...