Customer Meetings as Espionage Vectors

Commercial engagement between CEOs and large customers can become a covert intelligence channel when adversary‑linked firms sit on critical purchasing or data flows. That risk shifts the locus of corporate security from internal R&D to public customer relations and procurement telemetry. — If true, it reframes corporate customer management as a national‑security control point, with consequences for what Congress, firms, and intelligence agencies demand on disclosure, briefings, and export rules.