SLU does not do any weapons-research (except that weaponsgrade gmo-potato which destills themselves to vodka...) so I do not think the original suspiscion had anything to do with military stuff. Besides the russians already has gotten the complete files twice.

My guess would more be directed towards commercially valuble research which might be held secret if that was part of the deal on financing. That is if a company finance research at a university they might put in non-disclosure clauses. There has been some cases of this kind of spying before, but not from Russia, IIRC.

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Seriously, the Swedes have been conducting research into ways to detect and defeat cruise missiles for over a decade now.  Some of the same approaches - acoustical detection, for instance - could also be applied to counter stealth technology.

A person wandering around a campus could learn quite a bit by overhearing conversations, looking in offices, rummaging through trash bins, & etc.

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