The hackers also targeted the Taiwanese military, obtaining "military maneuvers, warfare operation plans, strategic targets, espionage activities and so forth," according to Su's emails.
Murder, drug peddling, race horse kidnapping, diamond smuggling, medical malpractice, big-time auto theft, even (in the 1940s) the hijacking of strategic materials and espionage, all were conducted with Bayport as a nucleus".
It is charged with gathering information overseas and with other strategic services ranging from foreign espionage to covert political intervention.
Police action and military force, disaster relief and strategic operations, domestic investigations and international espionage: boundaries have already started to disappear.
"The primary objectives with full-on state-sponsored cyber espionage are military plans, strategic plans, military designs and things like that.
And it needs to get technology transfer and espionage onto the agenda of the Strategic and Economic Dialogue, the high-level, ongoing talks between China and the United States, they write.
She said that "corporate information - often of high economic and even strategic value - was at the centre of espionage activities".
But he should also use the meeting to address the strategic mistrust between the two sides that extends beyond espionage.
Another was the use in the 1980s of "almost every weapon at the C.I.A.'s command — psychological warfare, sabotage, economic warfare, strategic deception, counterintelligence, cyberwarfare" — in a campaign that "destroyed a vigorous Soviet espionage team, damaged the Soviet economy, and destabilized the Soviet state".
French carmaker Renault has said that suspected industrial espionage against its business poses a serious threat to its "strategic assets".
