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International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.  

Definition

  • International Telephone & Telegraph (ITT) was founded in 1920 by Colonel Sosthenes Behn, owner of the Puerto Rico Telephone Company. Behn's company would go on to buy up or build telephone companies in Europe and Latin America in an attempt to create an international version of American Telephone and Telegraph. [Source: Encyclopedia of White-Collar and Corporate Crime; International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-QJNLXQ1H-H

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