Apple owes a hidden debt to the CIA

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Aug 20, 2026, 12:00 pm154 ptsTrending
Steve Jobs with Macintosh (left), NeXTcube (center), and iMac. In the mid-1980s, as Steve Jobs struggled to keep his post-Apple venture NeXT alive, an unexpected lifeline arrived from the CIA. During the height of the Cold War, intelligence officials sought advanced computing power for satellite reconnaissance…

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