[Milsurplus] Russian equipment-KGB espionage-etc.

[Bob Camp]

Hi

 From the Russian electronics plants I have been in there definitely was 
a flow of information from west to east. Without getting into a bunch 
of exhausting details not only was information moving but entire 
production lines got bought in the west and moved east.

	Enjoy!

		Bob Camp
		KB8TQ


On May 4, 2004, at 8:50 PM, aGEnuine Ham wrote:

> I suspect many of the inhabitants of this reflector have been
> concentrating on radios and may have no more than a superficial 
> exposure
> to the espionage business.  In any event, from this side of the pond, I
> believe everyone knows how badly the US needed information on what
> electronics was being designed, fabricated and deployed in the old 
> Soviet
> Union, particularly during the "Cold War" period, and mounted many 
> heroic
> measures to collect this information.  The other side of the coin was
> that the US as an open society, was much leakier than the USSR when it
> came to examples of new electronic equipment.  So, there are documented
> examples of the acquisition of many pieces of equipment and technology,
> starting with the Manhattan project if you will, by the KGB for their
> masters.  Now whether the design and production of any equipment in the
> USSR was actually influenced by these examples, I am unable to say.  If
> it were aircraft, there are lots of documented examples, but I'm not
> cognizant of any rigorous research which has tied a specific USSR
> electronics design to a US predecessor.
>
> 73,
> George
> W5VPQ
>
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