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By Jonathan E. Lewis

ISBN-10: 0300091923

ISBN-13: 9780300091922

ISBN-10: 0300209754

ISBN-13: 9780300209754

What occurs whilst the realm a big gamble capital collides with the area of espionage? to discover the reply, Jonathan Lewis takes us contained in the government suite at Itek company throughout the chilly struggle years from 1957 to 1965. Itek used to be production the world's such a lot subtle satellite tv for pc reconnaissance cameras, and the knowledge those cameras supplied approximately Soviet missiles and army task used to be serious to US defense. So was once Itek. This paintings examines intimately the demanding situations Itek confronted not just as a contractor for an important nationwide protection programme of the time - the CIA's undertaking CORONA secret agent satellite tv for pc - but in addition as a start-up corporation competing with tested commercial giants. In telling the tale of Itek company, Lewis seeks to fill very important gaps within the heritage of yank intelligence, enterprise background and administration reviews. furthermore, he addresses quite a few issues comparable to the compatibility of secrecy and capitalism, the fight among gains and patriotism, and the workings of strength and connections in America.
Lewis explores how Itek executives contended with myriad enterprise difficulties that have been compounded through the necessity to bring up capital with out revealing the entire fact in regards to the company's hugely mystery enterprise. He additionally provides information regarding Laurance Rockefeller's enterprise capital operations and his position in financing Itek, according to the financier's inner most Itek papers. the quantity is either a case examine of a firm on the center of the yankee intelligence-industrial complicated throughout the chilly conflict and an exam of the effect of the CIA at the capitalist procedure it was once created to defend.

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