Methodologies used by Warsaw Pact countries (except USSR) in obtaining US technologies. Student report

Technical Report · Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:6173130

Cheeseman, R J

The Warsaw Pact countries obtain U.S. technologies by legal and illegal means. Methods of collection include espionage, overt collection, acquisition by scientific and educational exchange participants, and illegal trade activities. Examples of methods used by the Warsaw Pact countries (except the USSR) are provided. The US faces barriers to preventing loss of its technologies. Among these are resistance from US business interests, insufficient cooperation between US government agencies and overseas allies, lack of US counterintelligence personnel, and the openess of American society. The study concludes that the Warsaw Pact's countries have narrowed NATO's qualitative lead in weaponry as a result of the Warsaw Pact's acquisition effort.

• Research Organization: Air Command and Staff Coll., Maxwell AFB, AL (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6173130
• Report Number(s): AD-A-180570/4/XAB; ACSC-87-0490
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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