How CIA Made Google
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How CIA Made Google
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Re: How CIA Made Google
#2The article is from 2015, at least in the middle I see updated sections marked with a January 2015 date.
Basic premise seems to be that Sergey Brin received part of funding at his work at Stanford. That funding can be traced to a CIA budget and the article says that's not unusual. Google was incorporated later, the funding made some of the core algorithm work possible. I don't see a claim the CIA had any active involvement, contact or plan before or after Google was created.
Re: How CIA Made Google
#3The article is from 2015, at least in the middle I see updated sections marked with a January 2015 date. Basic premise seems to be that Sergey Brin received part of funding at his work at Stanford. That funding can be traced to a CIA budget and the article says that's not unusual. Google was incorporated later, the funding made some of the core algorithm work possible. I don't see a claim the CIA had any active invol…
The point is that the CIA is not going to fund companies out of the kindness of their heart.
They saw Google as useful in the wider intelligence and soft-power framework of the USA. Basically Google's success would further the USA's interests along with the interests of their intelligence agencies.
I think recent history has proven them to have been spot on.