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by CountSessine 3566 days ago
Not in that case, no. The document apparently was a post-mortem on a failed satellite launch, that said something of the sort, "the launch failed because the Chinese engineers haven't begun doing so-and-so with technology XYZ as we have." The fact that the launch had failed in the first place suggested that the Chinese did not yet appreciate the importance or realize the existence of technology XYZ yet.
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Right, but that was in 1996.

In 2016? If Snowden and Manning can walk off with what they did, I can't imagine more subtle agents aren't siphoning off much, much more.

Ah - yes. My mistake - I misunderstood you.