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Competitive intelligence Competitive intelligence
Economic Espionage ¦ JUDSON KNIGHT Economic espionage, sometimes known as industrial espionage, is spying conducted for the benefit of a commercial or industrial enterprise, typically to gain information not available through open channels. (By contrast, economic... Read more
Julius Rosenberg Julius Rosenberg
ETHEL & ROSENBERG, JULIUS 1915-1953 - 1918-1953 E XECUTED "ATOMIC SPIES Convicted by Circumstance, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for their alleged roles in passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. No hard evidence against... Read more
Double Agents Double Agents
Double Agents A double agent is person who conducts espionage for two, usually antagonistic, countries. Double agents allow intelligence services to gather information by infiltrating enemy organizations under cover. An organization usually recruits double agents from the... Read more
John le Carre John le Carre
John le Carré , pseud. of David John Moore Cornwell, b. 1931-, English novelist, b. Poole, Dorset, grad. Oxford, 1956. He was a tutor at Eton College (1956-58), subsequently working for the British Foreign Service in Germany (1961-64). Le Carré's best-known novel is The Spy Who... Read more
Rosenberg Case Rosenberg Case
Rosenberg Case in U.S. history, a lengthy and controversial espionage case. In 1950, the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Julius Rosenberg (1918-53), an electrical engineer who had worked (1940-45) for the U.S. army signal corps, and his wife Ethel (1916-53); they were indicted for... Read more
Whittaker Chambers Whittaker Chambers
Whittaker Chambers 1901-61, U.S. journalist and spy, b. Philadelphia. He joined the U.S. Communist party in 1925 and wrote for its newspaper before engaging (1935-38) in espionage for the USSR. He left the party in 1939 and began working for Time magazine. In 1948 he testified before the House... Read more
espionage espionage
espionage , the act of obtaining information clandestinely. The term applies particularly to the act of collecting military, industrial, and political data about one nation for the benefit of another. Industrial espionage—the theft of patents and processes from business firms—is not... Read more
Morris Hillquit Morris Hillquit
Morris Hillquit 1869-1933, American lawyer and Socialist leader, b. Riga, Latvia (then in Russia). He came to the United States in 1886. He was the leader of the right-wing, or constitutional, Socialists in their revolt against the radical leadership of Daniel De Leon in 1899. This revolt split... Read more
sedition sedition
sedition , in law, acts or words tending to upset the authority of a government. The scope of the offense was broad in early common law, which even permitted prosecution for a remark insulting to the king. Although there have been several statutes in the United States forbidding seditious utterances... Read more
Official Secrets Act Official Secrets Act
Official Secrets Act, 1911. The first Official Secrets Act (1889) was ineffective. It required the government to prove a suspect was a spy, even where it was obvious. The 1911 Act put this right, and extended the law further. It was passed in a panic, during an anti-German spy scare, and on a hot... Read more

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