UPDATE 2-Saab wins Brazil jets deal after NSA spying sours Boeing bid

[Mnpaul]

10. Karma

The NSA spied on Airbus to sour a contract with the Saudis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

In the early 1990s, the U.S. National Security Agency intercepted the communications between the European aerospace company Airbus and the Saudi Arabian national airline. In 1994, Airbus lost a $6 billion contract with Saudi Arabia after the NSA, acting as a whistleblower, reported that Airbus officials had been bribing Saudi officials to secure the contract.[24] As a result, the American aerospace company McDonnell Douglas (now part of Boeing) won the multi-billion dollar contract instead of Airbus