CIA’s unexpected role in Steve Jobs’s life revealed

Steve Jobs, the co-founder and longtime leader of Apple, may have owed part of his success to an unexpected customer: the U.S. intelligence community. In the 1980s, his new company, NeXT, reportedly received a major order for computers from U.S. government agencies. The story was reported by The Wall Street Journal, based on excerpts from a book by former WSJ journalist Sharon Weinberger.