"The most obvious question is: What prompted the acquisition? Did Google buy Keyhole — and take on all its military contracts and NatSec liabilities — because it badly needed its 3D mapping technology? Or did Google see the acquisition as a convenient way of getting into the military contracting business? Was there any internal discussion in the company about the benefits and pitfalls of absorbing a startup so closely tied with the CIA and the Pentagon?
Then there’s the CIA’s perspective: Given Keyhole’s close collaboration with active military and intelligence operations, how did the CIA approach the deal? Why Google? Did the Agency have any concerns? Did it impose conditions on Google? Did it require Google to honor Keyhole’s previous intel commitments as part of the deal? If so, what were these commitments?
In other words: What deal did Google — now the biggest private surveillance operation on planet earth — make with the CIA and the NSA, which run the largest government surveillance operations?"
https://americandigitalnews.com/index.php/2017/11/24/5543-keyhole-key-google-inqtel-surveillance-technologies/