During the Reagan years, no reflection on the administration, they went after Toshiba and a Norwegian firm involved too, from the top of mny head it was KVF I believe, Konigs Vapen Fabrik (I probably mangled the name, it’s been 30 odd years).
One of the things Clinton did was to dismantle COCOM, a US govt entity called the Coordinating Committee which vetted foreign sales of technology with military applications.
If I recall, in the Toshiba case one firm made the precision milling machinery and the other the software that controlled the processes.
Yes.
And because of that action by those companies, soviet submarines got a lot quieter.
The Reagan admin was furious that it happened.
Compare to Clinton just sprinkling tech everywhere like party favors and spaghetti garnish.