
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, August 6, 1993                   TAG: 9308060113
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: B5   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                 LENGTH: Short

INTELLIGENCE ASKED TO SHIELD, NOT SPY

The U.S. intelligence community should act as a "defensive shield" for American businesses but should not spy for the companies overseas, a panel of business and intelligence experts recommended Thursday.

"We do not believe it is either appropriate or necessary to secure, in a clandestine fashion, the secrets of our competitors," Boeing Vice President John F. Hayden told a rare public session of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Hayden said American business "must rely on our government to help protect us from foreign spies who wish to `tilt the tables' in favor of their own national businesses by stealing our technology . . . "

"This defensive shield' is what we think is the proper role for our government to play," he said.

by CNB