In the sixties and seventies of the 20th century, the United States International Business Machines Corporation, that is, IBM, has been monopolizing the international commercial computer market. Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry has made a loud call to catch up with and surpass the United States in the field of semiconductors, electronics, and computers.

However, it is not an easy task to compete with IBM in the United States, and if you want to shorten the time, you must obtain information on the new model in the United States through some means in advance.

As a result, Hitachi, through commercial espionage, obtained 10 of the 27 top-secret design materials of IBM's new generation 308X computer. This set of materials of great value was taken out in November 1980 by one of its in-house staff, Lemond Kadette.

In order to obtain the remaining 17 volumes, Hitachi continued to take action. Its senior engineer, Kenji Hayashi, sent a telegram to Maxwell Paley, who had business dealings with Hitachi, asking Paley to try to obtain the remaining 17 volumes.

Paley spent 21 years at IBM, most recently as director of IBM's Advanced Computer Systems Laboratory. After receiving the telegram, he realized that IBM was related to him and told IBM about it.

In order to find out the facts, Charlie Callaghan, who is in charge of IBM security, seized evidence that Hitachi was engaged in commercial espionage, asked Pelley for help, and approached Kenji Hayashi on Hitachi's side, and Pelly agreed to act as a double agent.

In order to thoroughly investigate the responsibility of the thieves, the FBI adopted the method of entrapment, claiming that two leading cadres of IBM will retire, and through these two people, they can get their hands on any top-secret hardware, software, manuals, etc., and they can get everything that Hitachi wants. However, Hitachi did not know that this was a trap and finally fell into the trap.

In June 1982, FBI agents arrested an employee sent by Hitachi to obtain information.

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