NYT: State Dept. criticized for purchasing Chinese PCs

By Keith Bradsher
The New York Times

Published: March 24, 2006, 5:57 AM PST
HONG KONG--A State Department purchase of more than 15,000 computers built by the Lenovo Group of China is starting to draw criticism in the latest sign of American unease about the role of foreign companies in the American economy.

The computers, worth more than $13 million, are coming from factories in Raleigh, N.C., and Monterrey, Mexico, that were part of the personal computer division that Lenovo purchased from IBM last May. Sean McCormack, a State Department spokesman, said at the department's daily media briefing on Wednesday that the computers were intended for unclassified systems and would be serviced by the former IBM division.

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during the eighties. It was built with local contractors was so filled with bugs and devices that we eventually determined that it was unusuable and moved.

The KGB took the opportunity to install AS PART OF THE BUILDING, man-made and natural items that are very good at collecting Sound waves, so that all the KGB had to do was aim a microwave at any part of the Building, they could hear everything going on in the building. Thus no place in the building could be made secure, thus the building of a new "Inner Sanctum" on top of the original building for the ambassador and any person who wanted access to classified information.

That's actually a much more clever act of espionage.

Only after we had agreed to give them one of the highest points in Washington. They brought in they own workers, ho built the embassy which could intercept any radio communications in the Washington DC Area, while the US Embassy was in one of the lowest points in Moscow.

How did we agree to those terms I never know, but the US Ambassador wanted a larger embassy and from what I heard pushed it through.