As a logical response, since 1992, the FBI has focused its counterintelligence activities on industrial espionage and, in 1994, it set up an Economic Counterintelligence Program. Speaking to the US Congress, Louis J. Freeh, the Director of the FBI, described this as a defensive programme designed to prevent the competitiveness of the US economy from being undermined by the theft of information.
En toute logique, le FBI a, depuis 1992, concentré ses activités de contre-espionnage sur l'espionnage économique et lancé en 1994 un "Economic Counterintelligence Program", qui est, selon Freeh, directeur du FBI, devant le Parlement, un programme défensif.