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Chapter 73 Economic intelligence: can subvert the original order of the economic field (1)
With the advent of the era of knowledge economy, economic intelligence has become the most active and eye-catching part of the business war.With economic globalization, the status of economic intelligence has gradually increased, and it can even subvert the original order in the economic field, influence the world economic pattern, and then affect the world pattern.

§§§Section [-] War without gunpowder in the field of scientific and technological intelligence
Since mankind entered the industrial age, a country's industrial capabilities often determine its war capabilities to a large extent.With the advancement of technology, various new weapons emerge in an endless stream.These new technologies and new weapons are quickly applied to warfare, and can quickly change the form of warfare, thereby affecting the outcome of the war.As a result, industrial intelligence personnel came into being. They mainly collect scientific and technological intelligence, especially those that can be directly applied to the field of national defense.

In addition to the battlefields of the world war, where the iron stream is rolling and corpses are strewn across the field, there is also a war without gunpowder in the field of scientific and technological intelligence. The confrontation in this war is equally fierce and thrilling. The FBI will tell you about the undeniable hero of this war-Paul Rothburd, who is known as the pioneer of industrial intelligence personnel.

Born in Austria in 1896, Paul Rothbold was drafted into the army in 1916 and served in the 27th Regiment of the Austrian Royal Styrian. Paul Rothburd's unit surrendered to a British unit in 1918.Becoming a prisoner of the British army changed his life.During Paul Rothburd's captivity, he was treated kindly and courteously by British soldiers, and was recruited as an intelligence officer by the far-sighted British intelligence agency. From then on, Paul Rothburd's legendary life as an intelligence officer and anti-fascist fighter began.

After returning to Austria, Paul Rothburd entered Germany in 1920 to study chemistry at the Technical University of Darmstadt, where he excelled and eventually received a doctorate.Afterwards, he was employed as a scientific consultant by a metallurgical weekly magazine in Berlin, which was the dream of the British intelligence service.Since the First World War, due to the military revolution brought about by science and technology, especially industrial technology, countries have been scrambling to collect scientific and technological information of each other, which has economic benefits in peacetime and huge military value in wartime.As a trained intelligence agent, Paul Rothburd uses his position in the German scientific publishing industry to meet famous European scientists and learn about their latest research developments.After World War I, with the continuous increase of Germany's military strength, the cloud of war gradually enveloped Europe. With his sharp eyes, Paul Rothburd paid close attention to every move of the Germans in industry and technology.

In the 20s, Germany was at the forefront of nuclear physics research in the world, and many German scientists with Jewish ancestry made surprising achievements in this regard.The keen Paul Rothburd was very aware of the broad application prospects of nuclear physics in warfare, so he was determined to organize the Nazi nuclear program.By helping scientists escape from Nazi Germany, Paul Rothburd gradually weakened Germany's scientific research strength in the field of nuclear physics. They paid enough attention to it and called on allied scientists to strengthen their research work in nuclear physics.Through the diligent work of Paul Rothburd, the British learned everything they wanted to know about Germany's atomic bomb program - from the beginning to the end of the war.

In December 1939, a German submarine sank the battleship HMS Royal Oak in Scapaferro Bay, considered the safest place in the UK.
, Germany's advanced military industry made Britain feel threatened.Paul Rothburd, as an intelligence officer with the identity of a physicist, quickly collected and sorted out German military industrial intelligence and passed the information to the British intelligence department. This information is the famous "Sloo Report" in the history of espionage.Professor Hinsley, a historian of the British intelligence service, once pointed out: "The Oslo report revealed for the first time the progress of Germany's most important science and technology that no one knew about." The military equipment situation in the early days of World War II laid the foundation for the Allied forces to develop their own equipment in a targeted manner.In particular, intelligence about German submarines enabled the British Navy to manufacture minesweeping destroyers and depth charges in a targeted manner, thus smashing the German Navy's conspiracy to blockade Britain.

After the war, Paul Rothbold returned to England and lived in reclusive life since then. He died of illness in London, England in 1963.As an intelligence officer, Paul Rothburd has done a lot, but no one knows it.The unknown Paul Rothburd thwarted the nuclear program of Nazi Germany at the very moment, and changed the direction of the entire human history to a considerable extent.The intelligence provided by Paul Rothburd not only accelerated the collapse of Nazi Germany, but also enabled the further development of the military industry of the Allied countries after the war, and made Western intelligence agencies pay more attention to industrial and technological intelligence.

Industrial intelligence personnel not only play a huge role in wartime, but also play a greater and stronger economic benefit in peacetime.

Germany's Volkswagen has poached Roberts, a cost-cutting expert from General Motors, sparking a tit-for-tat war between the two companies.After losing Roberts, GM turned to accusing Roberts of being an industrial intelligence officer.

At the end of 1992, after learning that he would be appointed as the chief executive of Fox, Pitt began to brew reforms.Pitt believes that Flowserve has expanded too fast in recent years, and such rapid expansion has overwhelmed Flowserve. Pitt wants to lose weight for the "super fat man" of Flowserve. He decided to find someone who can cut costs and control Experts with special talents in expenditure act as their second-in-command, so that their plans can be carried out as quickly as possible.In Pitt's mind, GM's Roberts is the most suitable candidate.Because Roberts saved GM's parts procurement department by $7 billion in just seven months.

Peetch and Roberts finally made contact through an auto parts supplier. One day in December 1992, two businessmen sat in the corner of a restaurant in downtown Detroit, the American city of Motor City, discussing business.They are Roberts, the manager of the Parts Purchasing Department of General Motors Corporation of the United States, and Picchu, the president of the Audi Automobile Department of Volkswagen AG in Germany.When they met for the first time, Pitt did not express his intention clearly, but lamented to Roberts that all the talents in the European auto industry had been recruited by the United States and Japan, so the European auto industry was struggling and it was difficult to restore the prosperity of the past.Hints to Roberts in speech.However, Roberts did not react to Peech's lament.

However, who would have imagined that the meeting between Peach and Roberts would trigger a business war that caused a sensation in the entire international auto industry.

In January 1993, Peetch and Roberts met again.This time, Petra bluntly stated to Roberts his wish to "hope Roberts can join Fox".Pitt believes that as a European, Roberts (who is originally a Spaniard) should contribute to the revitalization of the European auto industry, instead of helping the party rival the United States to attack his own people.

This contact between Peach and Roberts attracted the attention of the German press. In February 1993, several German media reported that Roberts had been absorbed by Fox.The reports angered GM CEO Smith, who had single-handedly promoted Roberts, who moved Roberts from GM's European subsidiary to its U.S. headquarters.He put Roberts in charge of GM's key department - parts procurement.And Roberts has also made an outstanding contribution to GM: in less than a year, the cost of GM parts has been reduced by 2 billion US dollars.

Smith certainly did not want to see the media's speculation become a fact, so he asked Roberts to clarify immediately.Roberts admitted to Smith that he had indeed met Petra, but he firmly denied the "job-hopping" rumors.However, Smith was not at ease. He hired a private detective to investigate Roberts. The detective followed Roberts' whereabouts day and night.When Roberts found out that he was being followed, he immediately realized that it was Smith.Roberts protested to Smith, forcing Smith to withdraw his follow-up investigation.At this point, the friendship between Smith and Roberts cast a cloud.

On March 1993, 3, Roberts abruptly submitted his resignation to General Motors.At the same time, Peter Pitt, the president of German Fox, also revealed to the outside world that Roberts will join Fox.Why did Roberts make a 10-degree turn so quickly?

It is reported that the fuse that led to Roberts' "jump" was that General Motors held a major decision-making meeting from March 1993 to 3, 8.At this meeting, GM's decision-makers formulated a "competitive strategy for entering the European auto market in the next ten years" and rejected Roberts' proposal to "set up a plant in Spain".Afterwards, Roberts said that he originally had high hopes for the plan to set up a factory in Spain, but he never expected that GM would completely overthrow his proposal, which disappointed him greatly.What made Roberts even more painful was that GM didn't even say hello before making the veto decision. over him.

However, German media reported that Roberts actually intends to enter the Spanish political arena.If GM agrees to open a plant in Spain, Roberts' influence in Spanish politics will be further strengthened.However, GM completely rejected Roberts' plan, making Roberts' dream of entering Spanish politics disappear like a bubble in an instant.Therefore, Roberts' resignation can be said to be his revenge on the executives of General Motors.

On March 1993, 3, Roberts said in a public statement that after he announced his resignation from GM, many of his subordinate employees came to his house and begged him not to leave GM, and even some of them He was so moved by the weeping appeal to him that Roberts said he would withdraw his resignation.In fact, things are not as simple as Roberts said.The real reason is that Roberts was persuaded by Smith's promise.Smith made a wish to Roberts that he would convince the board to promote Roberts to vice president of GM's North American automotive division if he promised not to resign.

But three days later, dramatic changes appeared again.That day, Smith had a hard time convincing GM's board of directors to promote Roberts to vice president of North American automotive.However, as soon as he stepped out of the door of the meeting room, Smith was slapped in the face: his secretary handed him a note, which was written by Roberts himself, to the effect that, after careful consideration and weighing, Roberts Still decided to resign.The note was from a friend of Roberts', and Roberts himself never showed up.

On March 1993, 3, Roberts announced in Germany that he officially joined Flowserve.At that time, Pitt, the president of Flowserve, was standing beside him.

The departure of Roberts caused GM to suffer a major blow: GM's great business of cutting parts costs will face the dilemma of no leader in the future.To add to GM's annoyance, Roberts apparently left with dirty hands and feet.Just after Roberts announced his job-hopping, GM counted the losses behind closed doors, and suddenly discovered that many confidential documents were missing. GM's top secret internal documents.

Therefore, GM can no longer be silent, and it will launch a counterattack against Flowserve. On April 1993, 4, GM applied to the Frankfurt District Court in Germany for a mandatory injunction, prohibiting Flowserve from "systematic and planned recruitment of GM's senior staff." On May 2, GM formally charged Roberts and seven other former GM senior executives with the suspicion of "industrial intelligence personnel".

In the next one and a half months, both parties insisted on their own words, accused each other, and refused to give in.Coincidentally, at this juncture, the famous German weekly "Der Spiegel" also came to join in the fun. "Der Spiegel" revealed Roberts' identity as an "industrial intelligence officer" in the form of a cover story, which immediately annoyed Fox Corporation. He was very dissatisfied with his approach, and immediately filed a complaint with the Hamburg court, requesting that Der Spiegel be prohibited from making similar reports.

At the end of June 1993, the Darmster prosecutors who accepted the case made a major discovery, and the case took a sharp turn for the worse. On June 6, the German Wisberden Police Department found four large boxes of documents, files and some slides in a local Yiwen apartment.After investigation, it was found that these materials were all from Opel and GM, including development plans, marketing strategies, cost-cutting plans, and other related materials, all of which were top-secret documents that only the top management of GM could see.The place where these documents were found was the residence of two former senior executives of Opel on record.Based on this, the Darmster prosecutor believes that Roberts is directly related to the "translocation" of these four boxes of documents.

On July 1993, 7, the Hamburg Court made the following judgment against the lawsuit between Fox and "Der Spiegel": "Der Spiegel" was allowed to continue to publish articles related to the "Roberts Industrial Intelligence Personnel Case", because "Der Spiegel" reported Apparently matching the prosecution's findings, Flowserve lost the case.

Although Roberts and Flowserve have not been prosecuted by the prosecution for any crimes so far, losing two consecutive battles within a week has really caused heavy internal and external injuries to Flowserve.Not only Roberts' glorious history in the auto industry may be buried in the notoriety of "industrial intelligence personnel", but also Volkswagen's reputation as a large enterprise in the international auto industry will be destroyed.This kind of ending is far from the original intention of recruiting Roberts to ZTE Fox!

This corresponds to the old saying that Flowserve "lost his wife and lost his army"!
§§§ Section [-] Transactions under the negotiating table

Today's intelligence wars are everywhere in the world, and even spread to the negotiating table. The FBI will show you the sensational Rio Tinto incident.

On the afternoon of March 2010, 3, the Shanghai No. 29 Intermediate People's Court made the first-instance verdict on the case of accepting bribes and infringing commercial secrets by non-state employees including the chief representative of Rio Tinto's representative office in Shanghai, Australia. The crimes of accepting bribes and violating commercial secrets were punished for several crimes. The defendant, Stern Hu, was sentenced to 100 years in prison, with confiscation of property and a fine of RMB 14 million; Wang Yong was sentenced to 520 years in prison, with confiscation of property and a fine of RMB 80 million; Ge Minqiang was sentenced to eight years in prison, with confiscation of property and a fine of RMB 70; Liu Caikui was sentenced to seven years in prison, with confiscation of property and a fine of RMB [-]; all illegal gains were recovered.

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