This is in reference to kx250rider's post.
Funny you should mention industrial espionage and RCA's development of NTSC color. My late uncle was a design engineer at Raytheon Corporation while all the fur was flying.
Apparently some key ideas for chroma mod/demod that the General did not yet possess had been hashed out an brought to fruition in Uncle 'Red's' design team. They had taken it from 'breadboarded' to commercially reproducible at a rather fast clip.Some skullduggery allowed that information to be presented to Sarnoff's camp.
His Dad,my Grand Dad got to be the "first 'kid' on his block" to have a color set {In the Pittsburgh area.} when Uncle Red presented him with a long legged 20 inch Raytheon color set some time after I was born in the mid Fifties.Sadly that set vanished shortly after 'Pap's' death in the mid Seventies.
Things turned out better for Raytheon as concerns another idea in development at the same time. The microwave oven.
Red got to come back to Pittsburgh from Chicago for its first demonstration here.