Competition on the world market, analysts of the Russian Defence Research Institute believe, involves the extensive use of intelligence data and the mass media. It is not without reason, they stress, that the U.S. Administration, which has submitted to the Congress some information on the "Brazilian-Russian deal," referred to conclusions drawn by the Intelligence Service. Exactly the same was done during the Russo-Indian and Russo-Iranian negotiations, which preceded the conclusion of contracts obviously contradicting the interests of U.S. industrial and scientific circles.
What matters in the given case, experts of the Institute presume, is not the supply of Russian missile technologies to Brazil, but the interest evinced by Latin American researchers in their peaceful national space programme. For instance, they are interested in the problem of light materials used in missile engines. Such production technologies are possessed by the United States and several European countries which are engaged in the most acute competition. It is simply disadvantageous for them to give Russia access to their market. This is why such a hullabaloo was raised around the "Brazilian contract," which even reached the American Congress, and then, for quite obvious reasons, flooded the press.