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Originally Posted by onwebcam
You think huh?
Facebook for example got around 13 million in initial seed money from In-Q-Tel.
In-Q-Tel of Arlington, Virginia, United States is a not-for-profit venture capital firm that invests in high-tech companies for the sole purpose of keeping the Central Intelligence Agency, and other intelligence agencies, equipped with the latest in information technology in support of United States intelligence capability..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel |
please.
1. the implication that investing in a start up give one access to that startup trade secrets is hilarious.
2. every single reference link on that wiki page is bullshit, except one, on that one it states:
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Over the years, some critics have dismissed In-Q-Tel as a government boondoggle. They have described the firms it invests in ominously as "CIA-backed," as if they were phony companies serving as cover for spy capers.
But in interviews with more than a dozen current and former CIA officials, congressional aides, venture capitalists that have worked with it and executives who have benefited from it, no one disputed that what began as an experiment in transferring private-sector technology into the CIA is working as intended.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...081401108.html
now go fuckk yourself for trying to derail a good thread with your bullshit ct rhetoric.