I wonder if that might be the case in this instance as well. Us negotiators thus had the upper hand in negotiations where australian and us firms openly bid against each other for chinese contracts. 93-94 net of independent national agencies to fight financial crime, and money laundering created in past few years. Interpol and french, british and australian groups qualify for membership. France and u.s. have strong common ground in fighting money laundering.
Fincen vacuum cleans financial data bases.
French system named tracfin. Fincin deals only in intel, tracfin in intel and enforcement. Personnel include over 200 financial gumshoes from batf, customs, dea, fbi, irs, postal inspection and secret service. There 39 agents on long-term details from 14 federal agencies including cia, nsa, and dia. Woodpecker project involved solving series technical problems of enormous complexity for powerful ops capability.