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Corporate Spies Killing The CIA
This is another sign of "the corporate state" -- the world that awaits us beyond the nation-state. Its redeeming quality is that there will be more corporate states than people, so corporate states must compete for individuals, and thus must be honest. Sort of like why capitalism works. We'll talk more about this in the coming weeks and months (actually, probably years). -- KM
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The CIA is having a growing problem with their analysts and spies being recruited away by corporations. One unpleasant, for government intelligence agencies, development of the last few decades has been the growing popularity of "competitive intelligence" (corporate espionage.) It's a really big business, with most large (over a billion dollars of annual sales) corporations having separate intelligence operations. Spending on corporate intel work is over $5 billion a year, and is expected to more than double in the next four years.
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