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Eisenhower almost certainly had some input, directly or indirectly, into the postwar German constitution with its strong privacy law: https://www.btg-bestellservice.de/pdf/80201000.pdf

"The privacy of correspondence, posts and telecommuni-cations shall be inviolable"

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What exactly does "almost certainly" mean?

And I thought this was about antitrust? Or is it a "whatever it takes" sort of policy enforcement?

Not to mention that this was before the Germans got ungrateful and tampered with US companies, if any of that was done on Ike's watch you know governments would get toppled and military action was on the table, not to mention sanctions and other economic retaliation.

See, this is why people don't like US hegemony. Germany is not a banana republic to be run for the benefit of the fruit company, it has voters.

It's an important enough matter that economic, political, and clandestine measures should be on the table.

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