Anonymous ID: e56fcc Jan. 7, 2022, 8:40 p.m. No.15330266   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

At In-Q-Tel, Painterโ€™s work focused on identifying, researching and evaluating โ€œnew start-up technology firms that were believed to offer tremendous value to the CIA, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency.โ€ Indeed, the NGA had confirmed that its intelligence obtained via Keyhole was used by the NSA to support US operations in Iraq from 2003 onwards.

 

A former US Army special operations intelligence officer, Painterโ€™s new job at Google as of July 2005 was federal manager of what Keyhole was to become: Google Earth Enterprise. By 2007, Painter had become Googleโ€™s federal chief technologist.

 

โ€˜TKโ€™ refers to Talent/Keyhole, code names for imagery from reconnaissance aircraft and spy satellites.