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    How the CIA Made Google

    I found this article here and thought others might be interested. It's a bit long but I'll post a few excerpts that give the general idea of what is being said here:

    In 1999, the CIA created its own venture capital investment firm, In-Q-Tel, to fund promising start-ups that might create technologies useful for intelligence agencies. But the inspiration for In-Q-Tel came earlier, when the Pentagon set up its own private sector outfit.

    [...]

    As for Bechtolsheim’s co-investor in Google, David Cheriton, the latter is a long-time Stanford computer science professor who has an even more entrenched relationship with DARPA. His bio at the University of Alberta, which in November 2014 awarded him an honorary science doctorate, says that Cheriton’s “research has received the support of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for over 20 years.”

    [...]

    In 1999, Joy had also co-chaired the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee, overseeing a report acknowledging that DARPA had:

    “… revised its priorities in the 90’s so that all information technology funding was judged in terms of its benefit to the warfighter.”

    Throughout the 1990s, then, DARPA’s funding to Stanford, including Google, was explicitly about developing technologies that could augment the Pentagon’s military intelligence operations in war theatres.

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    After Google’s incorporation, the company received $25 million in equity funding in 1999 led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. According to Homeland Security Today, “A number of Sequoia-bankrolled start-ups have contracted with the Department of Defense, especially after 9/11 when Sequoia’s Mark Kvamme met with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to discuss the application of emerging technologies to warfighting and intelligence collection.” Similarly, Kleiner Perkins had developed “a close relationship” with In-Q-Tel, the CIA venture capitalist firm that funds start-ups “to advance ‘priority’ technologies of value” to the intelligence community.
    https://medium.com/insurge-intellige...59e#.d9tacy6t2


    Given this kind of information it's not surprising to have articles like this in recent years:

    Google’s secret NSA alliance: The terrifying deals between Silicon Valley and the security state
    CISA: the dirty deal between Google and the NSA that no one is talking about
    Google's Eric Schmidt on NSA spying: 'We're going to break the Internet.'
    NSA Planned to Hijack Google App Store to Hack Smartphones

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