Re #23
Never heard of them.
Wasn't there a German Co. that sold the lathes to use in conjunction with the Toshiba products?
From http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1987/11/bonker.html
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Within several months of the NAS study, Congress learned that subsidiaries of Japan's Toshiba Corporation and Kongsberg, a Norwegian firm, had diverted highly sensitive propeller milling equipment and know-how to the Soviet Union, thereby enabling the Soviets to greatly diminish the noise of their submarine fleet.
These two events should convince every observer - from the most trade-oriented businessperson to the most fervent anti-communist of the need to reform our nation's restrictions on the export of high technology.
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