Holocaust Survivor's Invention Powered the FBI's Evidence Collection
If you've read Kurt Eichenwald's "The Informant", you've heard of the FBI's "body Nagra". The Nagra was invented by Stefan Kudelski - whose family escaped the Nazis : Poland > Romania > Hungary > France > Suisse.
You collude with your collaborators to fix prices, but you still have to protect your interests, so, when you visit their plant to ensure they're not violating the production quotas or fudging their capacity numbers ("We have way too much capacity, so we need a higher share of the market, else we have no choice but to flood the market and bring the price down") you consult with your techies (who tell you that the microbe doing the actual production of the final chemical product will exist throughout the plant, not just in the reactors) and take out a damp handkerchief and surreptitiously wipe the bannister and put it in a plastic bag to take back home for analysis - to figure out if they stole your microbe.
Japanese culture : tamamushi-iro no hyogen o tsukau - "using iridescent expressions" (what to read, why) and
Naniwabushi - appear weak, get on good personal terms - used as a negotiation tactic.
Williams and Connolly - high powered DC law firm - Aubrey Daniels III - spoke out against William Calley of the My Lai massacre infamy. These are the big guns you call in if you have the money. (If you can get wc.com to be your URL, you've got to be big 😊)
Headhunting in pro-football - when people pay you to deliberately injure players on the other team. So says Ron Ferrari.
The FBI collects evidence and the prosecutor's (Attorney General, Justice Department, etc) decide if the case is strong enough. For example, you need to catch a person making a statement. Simply saying yes to something another person in the conversation says is insufficient because "any good defense attorney will say that his client misunderstood what the other person said."
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