*Remember: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was the FIRST investor in Palantir. And it was Gilman Louie, the CEO of the CIA’s venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel (IQT), who helped Thiel, Alex Karp and Joe Lonsdale transform Palantir from just a few promising algorithms into becoming a billion-dollar multinational corporation and major U.S. Defense Contractor. A bottomless supply of “VC funding”, subsidized by American taxpayers, certainly helped as well.