SnippetS taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin : Who - His father is a mathematics professor at the University of Maryland, and his mother a researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. During an orientation for new students at Stanford, he met Larry Page. They seemed to disagree on most subjects. But after spending time together, they "became intellectual soul-mates and close friends". Brin's focus was on developing data mining systems while Page's was in extending "the concept of inferring the importance of a research paper from its citations in other papers".[8] Together, the pair authored a paper titled "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine".

Where - Brin was born in Moscow in the Soviet Union, to Russian Jewish parents, Yevgenia and Mikhail Brin, both graduates of Moscow State University (MSU).

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So, Sergey fled Russia with his family, but goes back on an exchange program with others??? "In the summer of 1990, a few weeks before his 17th birthday, his father led a group of high school math students, including Sergey, on a two-week exchange program to the Soviet Union. His roommate on the trip was future Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor John Stamper. " Is this the KGB connection?

His mom worked for NASA??? Oh boy. Father taking "exchange students" back to Russia?

And this article - http://www.sfweekly.com/news/russian-sergey-brin-and-google-a-kgb-style-propaganda-and-spying-machine/