Spooked

Description

"Imagine your main business competitor building a satellite-equipped "war room" to secretly monitor your new ventures. Suppose your classified product prototype mysteriously landed on the market under the brand name belonging to your archrival. Impossible? This isn't a story line from the latest spy thriller, it's modern day corporate America. Spooked thrusts readers into a clandestine world - where business means war and information is worth stealing.". "No one is quite who they claim to be in this fast-paced drama. Centering on a spy saga that roiled glue maker Avery Dennison, Spooked goes on to describe corporate espionage as it happens. You'll meet Karim Fadel, a spy with a guilt complex who works the trade show circuit; and Jan Herring, a former CIA star who founded the first business intelligence division at Motorola. And that's just the beginning, Hacker Marc Maiffret reveals that he was once paid to steal U.S. military software by a Kashmiri terrorist. Charles Hunt, former deputy director of French intelligence, explains the mechanics of covert intelligence collection and claims that no company is ethical. And research specialist Liz Lightfoot reveals the variety of company information she can dig up in minutes with just a phone, a computer, and a modem.". "Through narrative accounts of corporate spies scheming to pilfer secrets from companies such as General Electric, Hewlett-Packard and GTE, Spooked dramatically brings to life one of America's fastest growing industries: corporate intelligence. The stories, though unbelievable, are all very real."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

When the FBI learned Edward O'Malley had been invited to a conference in France to give a talk on the newly passed Economic Espionage Act of 1996, Bureau brass asked him to carry a message.

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