The cold war may be over and dead, but spooks still rule OK the US Central Intelligence Agency has warned more than 70 US defence, aerospace and financial companies that their industrial secrets are targets of French intelligence agents and diplomats, Defense Week reports, adding that the warning has caused Hughes Aircraft Co to drop plans to exhibit aerospace equipment at the Paris Air Show in June; a 21-page French government document from about 1990 outlines US aerospace and defence corporate secrets in which French companies are interested, US officials say; according to the Washington Post, Hughes officials said they were told one item the French memo lists is Hughes’ HS601 communications satellite; French firms recently outbid Hughes to provide $258m in communications birds to Arab lands.
