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Uber used former CIA officers posing as businessmen to collect trade secrets and other intel, explosive letter claims


Travis Kalanick
An explosive letter recently unsealed in the Uber-Waymo trade secrets legal battle has a lot of details that Uber probably wishes weren't public. 
The so-called "Jacobs letter" was written by a lawyer for a former Uber intelligence manager, and it contains allegations that the company had internal teams tasked with bugging hotels, infiltrating sensitive WhatsApp groups, and obtaining trade secrets from its competitors. 
A lot of this espionage was conducted by actual CIA-trained "case officers," who posed as legitimate businessmen and businesswomen, but collected intelligence on the side for Uber, according to the letter. Uber called these operatives "LATs."
Uber hasn't verified all the claims in the so-called "Jacobs letter," a spokesperson told Business Insider on Friday.

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