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Lenovo-IBM Deal Under U.S. Scrutiny Over Pentagon Server Use
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Lenovo Group Ltd. must convince government officials that buying a server unit from International Business Machines Corp. won’t give China back-door access to U.S. secrets and infrastructure.
The wrinkle is that the Pentagon, the FBI and the nation’s biggest telecommunications companies buy the IBM servers, according to people familiar with the matter and an analysis by Bloomberg Industries.