US-China Tech Race: Spies and Lies (Part Two)
This is an audio transcript of the Tech Tonic podcast US-China Tech Race: Spies & Lies (Part Two)
Nicholas Shenkin
To be honest, I mean, at cocktail parties with people I don’t know well, I usually just say I’m a lawyer who works for the Department of Justice. It’s . . . There’s very little you can say about what we do.
James Kynge
Nick Shenkin works in Silicon Valley. And if that’s where you work, well, you may have met him. You just wouldn’t know he’s actually an FBI agent.
Nicholas Shenkin
I just bore them by telling them I’m a lawyer who works for the Department of Justice, which isn’t false, but it’s boring enough that nobody has any follow up questions.
James Kynge
And there’s something else you probably wouldn’t know. The FBI has its own dedicated field office in California’s capital for all things tech. Nick’s job: to prevent industrial espionage and the theft of intellectual property, IP…