Confessions of a Corporate Spy

George Chidi

Revue Inc.

What do you think it means to be an expert in “hard-to-get elicitation”? It means people tell you things. A competitive intelligence consultant discusses things that can help a business–at the expense of another.

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091019_r18720_p646-320The Secret Keeper

Jules Kroll and the world of corporate intelligence.

William Finnegan

The New Yorker

If there is a gold standard in the corporate intelligence world, it’s Kroll Inc., Jules B. Kroll’s namesake consulting group. Here the New Yorker profiles Mr. Kroll, who is “widely credited with having created an industry where there was none.”

A Spy in the Jungle

How an American company tried to lure a young journalist into a life of corporate espionage

Mary Cuddehe

The Atlantic

Cuddehe was a freelance reporter with a busted rental car in a Cancún parking lot when a friend called with a “research” job:

…an offer from Kroll, one of the world’s largest private investigation firms, to go undercover as a journalist-spy in the Ecuadorian Amazon. At first I thought I was underqualified for the job. But as it turned out I was exactly what they were looking for: a pawn.

 

20001203spy.8The Pizza Plot

Schwan’s knew that Kraft was going to roll out a new kind of frozen pizza. In order to compete, it needed to find out certain things about its rival. To do that, the company would have to be very sneaky.

ADAM L. PENENBERG AND MARC BARRY

New York Times Magazine

Drug Spies Piracy is the pharmaceutical industry’s dirty little secret; fighting back has become its dirty little war. With the stakes this high, there are no rules, no conventions. But that doesn’t mean there haven’t been prisoners.

By Richard Behar

FORTUNE Magazine