devoted either to business or engineering pursuits. Half of the foreign companies that participate in the Industrial Liaison Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are Japanese, and more than a third of the endowed corporate chairs there are sponsored by Japanese companies. These 19 chairs represent $20 million to MIT (Combs and Moorhead, 1992, 25). This involvement certainly allows for the use of many nonintrusive methods for information collection, while at the same time quite possibly providing access to trade secrets as well. Although Japan relies primarily on nonintrusive methods, it has used intrusive methods as well. In 1981 Hitachi was offered IBM's secret plans for the new 3381 computer by a computer consultant on behalf of a former IBM scientist. In 1982 a Hitachi agent was arrested in the act of buying this information. In all there were twelve defendants in the subsequent lawsuit, but the case never even came up for trial. It was settled out of court (Schweizer, 1993). Germany The Germans have been very active and quite successful in the field of economic espionage through the utilization of a top secret computer facility outside Frankfurt, which has allowed the Federal Intelligence Service to enter both data networks and databases of companies and governments around the world. This computer espionage operation, code named Project RAHAB, involves the systematic entry into computer databases. It has ac...
