TY - BOOK ID - 77868537 TI - Spy capitalism PY - 2002 SN - 1281729388 9786611729387 030012905X 9780300129052 9780300091922 0300091923 9781281729385 PB - New Haven Yale University Press DB - UniCat KW - HISTORY / General. KW - Rockefeller, Laurance Spelman. KW - United States. KW - Itek Corporation. KW - National Security Council (U.S.) KW - Agjencia Qendrore e Inteligjencës KW - Central Intelligence Agency (U.S.) KW - CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) KW - CIP (United States. Centrālās izlūkošanas pārvalde) KW - Mei-kuo chung yang chʻing pao chü KW - National Security Council (U.S.). KW - Si Aing Ei KW - T︠S︡entralʹnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie SShA KW - T︠S︡RU SShA KW - T︠S︡RU (T︠S︡entralʹnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie SShA) KW - ЦРУ США KW - ЦРУ (Центральное разведывательное управление США) KW - Центральное разведывательное управление США KW - ארצות הברית. KW - 美國. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77868537 AB - What happens when the world of venture capital collides with the world of espionage? To find the answer, Jonathan E. Lewis takes us inside the executive suite at Itek Corporation during the Cold War years from 1957 to 1965. Itek was manufacturing the world's most sophisticated satellite reconnaissance cameras, and the information these cameras provided about Soviet missiles and military activity was critical to U.S. security. So was Itek. This intriguing book examines in unprecedented detail the challenges Itek faced not only as a contractor for the most important national security program of the time-the CIA's Project CORONA spy satellite-but also as a start-up company competing with established industrial giants. In telling the story of Itek Corporation, Lewis fills important gaps in the history of American intelligence, business history, and management studies. In addition, he addresses a variety of important themes such as the compatibility of secrecy and capitalism, the struggle between profits and patriotism, and the workings of power and connections in America. Lewis explores how Itek executives contended with myriad business problems that were compounded by the need to raise capital without revealing the complete truth about the company's highly secret business. He also presents for the first time information about Laurance Rockefeller's venture capital operations and his role in financing Itek, based on the financier's private Itek papers. The book is both a remarkable case study of a company at the heart of the American intelligence-industrial complex during the Cold War and a thought-provoking examination of the impact of the CIA on the capitalist system it was created to defend. ER -