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One must wonder when Professor Montagnier finds time to due research.  After
my reading the following articles I realize he likes to engage in work other
than research.  No wonder he has done no scientific work of significance the
past several years...

Found in Nature, vol. 374, 27 April 1995

PANEL TO GATHER INTELLIGENCE ON RIVAL TECHNOLOGY EFFORTS

Paris.  Luc Montagnier, of the Institut Pasteur in Paris, may need to swap
his lab coat for a trench coat after his surprise appointment to a committee
set up by the French government to improve the collection and distribution of
"economic intelligence".

The Committee for Competitivity and Economic Security, as it is known, was
set up earlier this month by presidential decree.  Its seven members will be
appointed to serve a three-year term of office by the prime minister, who
will himself chair the committee.

In a report to President Francois Mitterrand accompanying the decree, Edouard
Balladur, the current prime minister, claimed that changes in the
geopolitical scene -- particularly the globalization of business and
technology -- have made the committee necessary.

The committee's creation was prompted by a report on business intelligence by
the Commissariat General au Plan, a powerful agency made up of industrialists
and representatives of trades unions and other public organizations.  It
concluded that the collection and distribution of economic intelligence had
suffered from "multiple walls" and a "lack of coordination".

France has been spying on competitors' technologies and business strategies
for years.  But the commissariat argued that countries such as the United
States, Germany, and Japan had much more advanced systems of "legal"
intelligence.

The United States has traditionally left the gathering of economic
intelligence primarily to large companies.  But the administration of
President Bill Clinton has also begun to seek ways of improving the flow of
information to those companies that might most benefit from it, even though
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