“The FBI’s Assistant Director in charge of the counterintelligence Division testified to a U.S. Congress committee that ‘Israel is looking for business and military secrets. One of the best tools they can use are business partnerships between Israeli and American firms, which supply software to the entire U.S. market and the various government agencies. In this way the firms can get access to the information they’re looking for.’ In its annual business espionage report to the Congress, the FBI tagged Israel as ‘a hostile intelligence threat’, second only to the threat posed by the Chinese intelligence services.”
Source: FBI Claims That Israel Conducted Aggressive High Tech Espionage Campaign on the U.S. – i-HLS