So “the company” ran a large number of commerical ventures: electronics, drug running, all to held their benign overlords achieve world peace.
The CIA owned, and probably still does own, quite a few companies that were started for “cover” but don’t necessarily have anything to do with spycraft. Some of them they kept around simply because the company turned out to be very profitable, and the CIA can use that money to fund “black budget” ops instead of going to Congress to get funding.