Antony C. Sutton The Best Enemy Money Can Buy (1986)

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.In I967 the Olivetti firm delivered $2.4 million worth of data-processingequipment systems to the USSR in addition to Model-400 and Model-115 machines.In sum, General Electric from 1959 onwards sold to the Soviet Union through itsEuropean subsidiaries a range of its medium-capacity computers.Of perhaps even greater significance for the 1960 era were sales by English Electric,which include third-generation microcircuit computers utilizing Radio Corporation ofAmerica technology.In 1967 English Electric sold to the USSR its System Fourmachine with microcircuits; this machine incorporates RCA patent and was similar tothe RCA Spectra-70 series.The largest single supplier of computers to the USSR has been InternationalComputers and Tabulation, Ltd.of the United Kingdom, which also licenses RCAtechnology, and by 1970 had supplied at least twenty-seven of the thirty-three largecomputers then in Russia.In November I969, for example, five of the firm's 1900-series computers (valued at $12 million) went to the USSR.These large high-speedunits with integrated circuits were, without question, considerably in advance ofanything the Soviets were able to manufacture.Such machines were certainly capableof solving military and space problems.Indeed, a computer cannot distinguishbetween civilian and military problems.In 1971 the USSR and East European family of general purpose computers known asthe RYAD series was announced.These are based substantially on IBM 360 and 370computers illegally diverted into the USSR.This had an important effect of makingavailable to them a tremendous library of computer software that was RYADcompatible.Dr.Baker has commented on the current RYAD position:In the area of available manpower, one of the serious problems afflicting the Sovieteconomy is the lack of qualified, highly trained, technical people in the areas ofcomputers and microelectronics.One cause of this is the lack of enough computingand electronic equipment to train the next generation of scientists and engineers.Theysimply don't have enough equipment to allow students sufficient 'hands-on' practice atan early stage in their education.The Soviets are trying to alleviate this problem byproducing large, for them, numbers of RYAD computers copies of the U.S.IBMSystem 360's and 370's.17Soviet Agatha - American Apple IIIn mid 1983 the Soviets introduced their first personal computer the AGATHA (arather curious name for a Russian product).Produced at Zelenograd, outside Moscow, the Agatha was reversed engineered fromthe APPLE II.Specifications are similar to the APPLE and the components are eitherSoviet produced from reverse engineered U.S.components or imported and boughtopenly or clandestinely in Europe or Japan.Officials at the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences have admitted that the APPLE IIserved as a "prototype" for the Soviet Agatha.In 1985 COCOM set up some new rules for microcomputers and made it legal toexport without license low powered 8-bit computers.Such a machine sells in the Westfor $100 to $500.The response was a flood of computer manufacturers attempting to make elaboratesales pitches to the multimillion Soviet microcomputer market.If history is any judge,the Soviets will buy a few thousand and then attempt to reverse engineer and producein the Soviet Union.Presumably the microcomputers, although low powered, couldhave military applications and indeed this was openly admitted by a major computermanufacturer (New York Times, February 8, 1985):"We have no illusions.Some of these are headed for the military."Military End UseConfirmation of military end use comes from unimpeachable sources Sovietengineers who have worked on copying or reverse engineering in the Soviet Unionand later defected to the West.These engineers have testified before Congress andprovide firsthand evidence of Soviet military use of our technology.Here is astatement from Joseph Arkov, who graduated from a Soviet engineering school in1970 and who now resides in the United States.Arkov worked in Soviet researchinstallations.If, for example, a new American computer has been obtained by the Soviets, they willmake a military application of it rather than a civilian application,"18 andIn my work in the second research installation I had the assignment of copyingWestern and Japanese high technology.Arkov makes the interesting point that the Soviets are now so far behindtechnologically that they can no longer just reverse engineer as previously theymust import even the technology to manufacture high technology:They do not have the human resources or the fine tuned equipment required toproduce the high technology machinery they try to copy.Once they know what makesa given piece of machinery work, they find that they do not have the technical know-how and equipment to produce the product themselves.That is why they wantWestern high technology machines that will enable them to produce the products.And the Western products they desire the most are those produced in the UnitedStates.That is why they want American high technology machines with which theycan produce the components for high technology products [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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