espionage

[Brad DeLong]

>wanted:  entertaining examples of industrial espionage!
>
>thus far, i have
>
>--one of the earliest known examples of espionage, agents posing as 
>monks in order to steal silkworms and mulberry leaves, storing them 
>in hollowed staffs.
>--italians pilfered maps from portuguese captain by sending servants 
>to infiltrate the capt's home
>--france smashed china's porcelain monopoly by using  their 
>daughter's charms to extract trade secrets during pillow talk
>--Britain's Richard Foley  dressed as a wandering minstrel in order 
>to gain access to competitors factories and steal production process 
>secrets.
>
>anyone have other juicy stories?

Francis Cabot Lowell using his social position to gain entree into 
British textile factories, and hurridly making sketches of machinery?

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