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BIA’s document “Strategic Information Collection for Investors” was obtained by the author.
CHAPTER 8: THE EDDIE MURPHY STRATEGY
GeoEye’s May 2008 10-Q filing with the SEC can be found online at http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1040570/000095013308001863/w57751e10vq.htm.
The National Reconnaissance Office Web at www.nro.gov/corona/corona2.jpg site has a copy of the fist spy satellite picture.
This and other quotes from Trading Places can be found online at www.imdb.com/title/tt0086465/quotes.
The $100,000 annual fee was reported in Ben Paynter, “Feeding the Masses: Data In, Crop Predictions Out,” Wired, June 23, 2008. Available online at www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_feeding.
The press release is available on the USDA Web site at www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/printable/06_30_08.pdf?printable=true&contentidonly=true&contentid=2008/06/0171.xml. The acreage report of June 30, 2008, can be found at http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/usda/current/Acre/Acre-06-30-2008.pdf.
The history of U.S. commercial satellite imagery was ably laid out in Ann M. Florini and Yahya A. Dehqanzada, “No More Secrets? Policy Implications of Commercial Remote Sensing Satellites,” paper written for a Carnegie Endowment conference, 1999. Available online at https://www.policyarchive.org/bitstream/handle/10207/6465/satellite.pdf?sequence=1.
Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz, “The Perils of Landsat from Grassroots to Globalization: A Comprehensive Review of U.S. Remote Sensing Law with a Few Thoughts for the Future,” Chicago Journal of International Law (Summer 2005): 45.
The complete list is available at the NOAA Web site, http://www.licensing.noaa.gov/licensees.html.
NOAA has a handy fact sheet on satellite regulations on its Web site at http://www.licensing.noaa.gov/faq.html.
The BBC account of the U.S. satellite action in Afghanistan, “U.S. Buys Afghan Image Rights,” appeared on October 17, 2001. Available online at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1604426.stm.
Wilson et al. v. ImageSat International N.V. et al., CASE 1:07-cv-06176-DLC-DFE, filed July 2, 2007.
CHAPTER 9: NICK NO-NAME
“Esoteric: A Specialist Security and Covert Investigations Company,” corporate marketing brochure.
Michael McCahill and Clive Norris, “CCTV in London,” Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Hull, 2002. Available online at www.urbaneye.net/results/ue_wp6.pdf.
CHAPTER 10: THEY’RE ALL KIND OF CRAZY
How Senator Frist’s decision leaked to Wall Street traders was first revealed by the author in “Washington Whispers to Wall Street,” Business Week, December 26, 2005. It can be found online at www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_52/b3965061.htm.
CHAPTER 11: IS THIS A GREAT COUNTRY, OR WHAT?
“German Corporate Spying Scandal Widens,” Spiegel Online International, June 9, 2008. Available online at www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,558510,00.html.
“Germany’s Corporate Spying Scandal,” Time.com, May 27, 2008. Available online at www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1809679,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics.
The e-mails between Hakluyt and Enron can be found online at www.enronexplorer.com.
Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova, “A Chill in the Moscow Air,” Newsweek, February 6, 2006. Available online at www.newsweek.com/id/57048.
Trident Group was first described by the author in “I Spy—for Capitalism,” Business Week, August 13, 2007. It can be found online at www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_33/b4046052.htm.
EPILOGUE: IN FROM THE COLD
Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 2007), p. 65.
Michael Calderone, “Two WSJ Reporters Launch New Company,” Politico. com, March 23, 2009. Blog available online at http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0309/WSJ_reporters_start_company.html?showall.
“Rock Star: That’s Not Me Drinking on Google,” CNN.com, March 28, 2009.
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