https:// americandigitalnews.com/2017/11/24/5543-keyhole-key-google-inqtel-surveillance-technologies/
Is CIA-backed KEYHOLE the KEY to Google’s InQTel Surveillance Technologies??
The CIA helped sell a mapping startup to Google (InQTel). Now they won’t tell us why…
“We can neither confirm nor deny…”
Hey Q, is this the BRIDGE you’ve been referencing all along?
“Is CIA-backed KEYHOLE the KEY to Google’s InQTel Surveillance Technologies??”
https:// americandigitalnews.com/2017/11/24/5543-keyhole-key-google-inqtel-surveillance-technologies/
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?
Google has been aggressively expanding in the lucrative military contacting market to the point where it has sold advanced military grade data products to just about every major military and intelligence agency in America. It has clinched a near monopoly on government battlefield mapping tech, outfitted the CIA and NSA with advanced search capabilities, co-invested in spy satellites and battlefield robots with the Pentagon, partnered with traditional military contractors like Lockheed Martin, and has increasingly filled its executive ranks with top Pentagon officials from the U.S. Army, Air Force Intelligence, and the CIA.
DON’T BE EVIL
Is CIA-backed KEYHOLE the KEY to Google’s InQTel Surveillance Technologies??
Could this be the “BRIDGE” Q has been pointing us to all along?
https:// americandigitalnews.com/2017/11/24/5543-keyhole-key-google-inqtel-surveillance-technologies/
The CIA helped sell a mapping startup to Google (InQTel). Now they won’t tell us why…
Keyhole, Inc, founded in 2001, is a pioneering software development company specializing in geospatial data visualization applications.
Initially launched as a spin-off of Intrinsic Graphics, first round funding came from a Sony venture capital fund and others, additional capital came from an NVIDIA bundling deal, from the CIA (via its venture-capital appendage, In-Q-Tel) and from angel investor Brian McClendon (who later came on as a board member and VP).
Keyhole’s marquee application suite, Earth Viewer, emerged as the highly successful Google Earth application in 2005; other aspects of core technology survive in Google Maps, Google Mobile and the Keyhole Markup Language.
In a press release announcing the investment a few months later, In-Q-Tel discussed Keyhole’s close collaboration with military and intelligence partners and explained that Keyhole technology was already being successfully deployed by active military forces in Iraq.
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?
DON’T BE EVIL
Is CIA-backed KEYHOLE the KEY to Google’s InQTel Surveillance Technologies??
Could this be the “BRIDGE” Q has been pointing us to all along?
https:// americandigitalnews.com/2017/11/24/5543-keyhole-key-google-inqtel-surveillance-technologies/
The CIA helped sell a mapping startup to Google (InQTel). Now they won’t tell us why…
Keyhole, Inc, founded in 2001, is a pioneering software development company specializing in geospatial data visualization.
Keyhole’s marquee application suite, Earth Viewer, emerged as the highly successful Google Earth application in 2005; other aspects of core technology survive in Google Maps, Google Mobile and the Keyhole Markup Language.
In a press release announcing the investment a few months later, In-Q-Tel discussed Keyhole’s close collaboration with military and intelligence partners and explained that Keyhole technology was already being successfully deployed by active military forces in Iraq.
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?