Abstract
Although during the Cold War the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the rest of the American intelligence community dealt primarily with military and political developments in the world (and especially the Soviet Union), international economic issues gradually gained in importance. The extensive involvement of the CIA and its companion agencies in economic intelligence has fallen into several categories of activity: intelligence collection, analysis, counterintelligence, and covert action. Since this nation's national security is intimately intertwined with its economic security, America's secret agencies will continue to pursue intelligence on the economic activities of other nations—yet, if current policy persists, not to the extent of systematic spying against a range of foreign business targets.
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