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Valencia - 26.06.2006

Spying: table of contents

Table of contents

10.11.2006
Secrets and spies - Conclusion

“Today, everybody understands that espionage will not be tolerated”...

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03.11.2006
America's Cup 2003: Secrets for sale - part two

“The work we have done…has been essentially copying TNZ designs based on input from ex-TNZ team members”...

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27.10.2006
2003 America's Cup: Secrets for sale - part one

“It may be called OneWorld, but the latest America’s Cup challenge launched in Seattle yesterday could be better recognized as New Zealand Two”...

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20.10.2006
1983 - Keelgate - part two

“We would like to know where these details were obtained, since it is common knowledge that we keep all details of our boat secret”...

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13.10.2006
1983 - Keelgate - part one

“We call it a modesty skirt. We like to keep our lady’s private parts hidden…”...

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06.10.2006
1983 - The winged keel of Australia II: a Canadian obsession…

Bruce Kirby organised an operation using two Canadian Navy divers...

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20.09.2006
The 1992 America's Cup: Spy games!

“With the end of the cold war, ‘wanna-be’ spies are directing their talent in other directions and the America’s Cup syndicate camps are an attractive target.”...

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13.09.2006
1992 - "It's part of the game…"

"We take high-resolution pictures from way up in the air, bring them back and have a computer analyse them. "...

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06.09.2006
1992: An indiscreet French frogman…

"Maybe now that Marc has seen our keel he would like to invite me along to see theirs tomorrow morning. "...

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30.08.2006
1901: Night moves

"As in previous years, every possible effort has been made by the firm to preserve the secrets of the shop... "...

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23.08.2006
1930-1934 - An exchange of ideas, from the 'Park Avenue' to the 'North Circular'

In the America's Cup, any innovation that is revealed too early risks being taken up by the opposition...

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16.08.2006
1970: Chancegger the Baron Bich's secret weapon

France I was built in Pontarlier and Marcel Bich had achieved his first goal, to race towards the America's Cup...

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09.08.2006
1980 - The British bendy mast of Australia

Australia just missed out on beating Freedom, thanks in large part, to spying and copying an innovation...

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02.08.2006
1930 - 1934 - Electric instruments: Is imitation the highest form of flattery?

Observers describe this 'J' as the most different of the American boats, with its long double-ended hull shape, composite hull...

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26.07.2006
1934 - The quadrilateral jib: did spying cost the Cup?

"We conceived an unusual headsail which, I am sure, a great many people claim was their invention"...

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19.07.2006
Nathanael Greene Herreshoff: obsessed with secrecy...

Nathanael Herreshoff had a fear of spies for his entire working life and lived in constant suspicion of people stealing his ideas...

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12.07.2006
1893, strange similarities…

“The secret must be considered as the limitation of the mutual knowledge“...

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05.07.2006
Elementary my Dear Watson

"The only way 'to play against' the Americans is to play like them"...

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28.06.2006
Under prying eyes: America, in 1851

"The illusion that America was moved by a propeller was indulged because it was soothing to wounded feelings"...

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26.06.2006
The secret and the spies

“The Cup is donated (to the NYYC) upon the conditions that it shall be preserved as a perpetual Challenge Cup for friendly competition between foreign countries”...

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