In ancient times wise people were able to predict future events by carefully observing fluctuations in market supply and demand of certain goods. For instance, in medieval times sudden increase of prices of iron, horses and jewels were often herald of war, as iron and horses were required for armaments, while diamonds and rubies were perceived as a best way to liquidate assets. A wise King observing those signs could learn in time that his neighbor was preparing to attack him. This skill became perfected by corporations such as IND and Interspace, allowing them to invest in growing markets before others to ripe the biggest reward, as well as intelligence agencies such as LSF, allowing them to seek out and eradicate enemies of the state foolish enough to arm in their neighbor grocery shop. The lesson learned from this is simple. Each time you buy something you let others know what you are going to do. Unless...
Unless you do it properly. We have collected preliminary list of necessary resources to build the Spyglass Network. However, in order to not betray what we are planning to accomplish even before our allies and closest business partners, the required wares must be obtained partially from various unrelated parties - so nobody will be able to collect all the pieces of the puzzle.
Mr Yoshida, you have recently renewed contact with the BDM operatives. I believe that Quantum Multiplexors assembled in New Berlin and Nanocapacitors produced in Hamburg are of high Rheinland quality and will suffice for our project. Mr Yoshida, please use your influence to persuade Rheinlanders to present us with 3000 metric units of each.
Professor Scorpius, for a long time you have been maintaining close ties to the Junker Marauders. It is now high time to use them to obtain Optical Chips, Optronics and Lasers. Mr Scorpius, please make sure that Junkers provide us with 4500 metric units of each these goods.
As for Superconductors and Bio-Neural Processors I will see if this new group of pirates can be of any use. As you perfectly know both of these are produced almost exclusively by Ageira Technologies. We need to tread very carefully here to not betray our intentions and this is why we must use a proxy.