The report title spells it out: "Foreign Spies Stealing U.S. Economic Secrets in Cyberspace." 

A slender document – 20 pages – that was presented last week to Congress by the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive, the report has a simple if frightening message: computers in US businesses, government agencies and financial institutions are continually probed by experts spies operating out of foreign countries, said intellectual property attorney Jake Holdreith with Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi in Minneapolis, Minn. 

"It's no surprise that a lot of information gets stolen," said Holdreith.

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