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But it wouldn’t stop there. If you want to conduct economic espionage successfully, you have to go further. Must create channels through which companies, scientific organizations and government bodies exchange information. In order for services to successfully conduct economic espionage, business secrets must become official classified information. Suddenly nothing is secret anymore – and everything is at the same time. No company can then rely on a business partner to treat information confidentially. And no one can then judge whether a company is presenting a really new, technologically innovative product – or just a perfect copy, sponsored by BND. It would be the end of fair competition.