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==Early history== | ==Early history== | ||
In 1983 Sekora was an intelligence officer within the U.S. [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] (DIA), working on preventing the flow of western military technologies to the Soviet Union. At the time, the intelligence agencies of the | In 1983 Sekora was an intelligence officer within the U.S. [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] (DIA), working on preventing the flow of western military technologies to the Soviet Union. At the time, the intelligence agencies of the Soviet Union like the [[KGB]] and [[GRU (Soviet Union)|GRU]] were very aggressive in their efforts to acquire technology from the United States as well as from various other western countries like [[France]] and [[Germany]]. They were using a multitude of covert and overt, legal and illegal means to acquire western [[military technology|military technologies]]. For example, DIA would block KGB's acquisition of a sensitive U.S. technology that the KGB had trans-shipped through an intricate maze of front companies throughout [[Africa]] (it turns out that the KGB was ultimately successful by trans-shipping it through European front companies).{{citation needed|date=January 2023}} | ||
It became clear that the United States' technology policy was radically different from the policies of all the other countries that Sekora had interacted with. The U.S. technology policy consisted primarily of protection in the form of [[export control]]s to prevent the flow of U.S.-developed technology to military adversaries. In contrast, the technology policies of all other countries of the world addressed the flow of technology both into and out of the country. Surprisingly, this was the policy of both U.S. adversaries and allied countries, and it was used by the countries to address both their military as well as commercial technologies.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}} | It became clear that the United States' technology policy was radically different from the policies of all the other countries that Sekora had interacted with. The U.S. technology policy consisted primarily of protection in the form of [[export control]]s to prevent the flow of U.S.-developed technology to military adversaries. In contrast, the technology policies of all other countries of the world addressed the flow of technology both into and out of the country. Surprisingly, this was the policy of both U.S. adversaries and allied countries, and it was used by the countries to address both their military as well as commercial technologies.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}} | ||