I'm confused by one statement in the article: "Lockheed turned the Hiller Helicopter plant in East Palo Alto into the control facility for all spy satellites". Presumably the control facility was the Blue Cube (later Onizuka AFS), but that was in Sunnyvale, not East Palo Alto.
First Stanford Industrial Park and then Sunnyvale AFB which was renamed Onizuka AFB in 1986, well after the Corona Program ended in 1972.
The Hiller Helicopter plant was on the east side of Willow Road, just north of Ivy Drive.
People don't appreciate the importance of defense spending on the emergence of Silicon Valley. It really helped grow a semiconductor company when you had a customer with deep pockets who would buy everything you could produce literally just down the street.