Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy Quotes

“Generally, CIA officers work at the same government pay scale as employees of the Department of Transportation or the Department of Education. Known as the General Scale (GS), the system has fifteen grades of seniority, each of which is divided into ten “steps.” In 2008, entry-level government employees made just over $17,000 per year.”
― Eamon Javers, Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy: The Secret World of Corporate Espionage

“Although the legal issues surrounding “Dumpster diving” can be murky, and often depend on where garbage is situated and how it is secured, the Beckett Brown men operated on the assumption that everything they did was legal, since people discarding trash for public collection have abandoned the presumption of privacy for material.”
― Eamon Javers, Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy: The Secret World of Corporate Espionage

“There, they swiped bags of Mars office trash, switching them with bags of old trash they brought along as replacements.”
― Eamon Javers, Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy: The Secret World of Corporate Espionage

“DESPITE THE HIGH drama of the Shimon case, the wiretapping itself was standard stuff. Shimon or his associates walked up to basement phone boxes and installed their taps right on the premises. All they needed to know was which cable to tap, and they got that information by calling the phone company and posing as repairmen out in the field. Helpful but clueless receptionists at headquarters always gave them the wiring details they needed.”
― Eamon Javers, Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy: The Secret World of Corporate Espionage

“The investigator Sam Dash* chronicled the rise of corporate espionage involving bugging and wiretapping during the early twentieth century in his classic book The Eavesdroppers. He found corporate spying in small towns and in the nation’s capital. In Toledo, Ohio, in 1932, for example, investigators came across an extensive wiretap setup in a hotel room next to the headquarters of an agricultural group, the Farmers’ Producers Association. This group had been discussing boosting the price of milk, and the evidence showed that the room had been bugged for days.”
― Eamon Javers, Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy: The Secret World of Corporate Espionage

“Abraxas, which, the Los Angeles Times revealed in 2006, creates fake identities and dummy companies for undercover CIA employees around the world.”
― Eamon Javers, Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy: The Secret World of Corporate Espionage

“Nestlé also knew that children four to twelve years old have an astonishing amount of purchasing power in the economy.”
― Eamon Javers, Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy: The Secret World of Corporate Espionage

“The toys inside the candy were based on the hugely popular animated film The Lion King and included such characters as Simba the lion and his sidekicks Timon and Pumbaa”
― Eamon Javers, Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy: The Secret World of Corporate Espionage

“The rivalry spanned the globe, encompassing—among other products—packaged meals, pet food, and, most of all, chocolate candy.”
― Eamon Javers, Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy: The Secret World of Corporate Espionage