Downplayed by CIA, Paris Incident Has Wide Impact : France: Economic spying affair faded quickly from news. Officials now admit it severely hampered agency.
It was portrayed as a minor incident, a mere embarrassment to the intelligence community: Five Americans--four of them CIA officers--were accused by France in February of conducting an economic espionage operation against the government in Paris. 
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### Instruction: Downplayed by CIA, Paris Incident Has Wide Impact : France: Economic spying affair faded quickly from news. Officials now admit it severely hampered agency.

### Response: It was portrayed as a minor incident, a mere embarrassment to the intelligence community: Five Americans--four of them CIA officers--were accused by France in February of conducting an economic espionage operation against the government in Paris. 