<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/820758.stm" rel="nofollow">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/820758.stm</a><p>"... US firm Raytheon used information picked up from NSA snooping to secure a $1.4bn contract to supply a radar system to Brazil instead of France's Thomson-CSF.<p>"[...]<p>"But former CIA director James Woolsey, in an article in March for the Wall Street Journal, acknowledged that the US did conduct economic espionage against its European allies, though he did not specify if Echelon was involved."