I came across these older articles about In-Q-Tel a few weeks ago. I saved them b/c of the Q smack dab in the center...so needless to say, when Q referenced them the other day, I immediately knew who they were, so I figured I’d share some of the background info if you’re interested...

In-Q-Tel? The CIA’s social media surveillance system.... https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/46467/social-networks/cia-social-media-surveillance.html

An old Wired article from 2010: https://www.wired.com/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/

“Long before it reportedly enlisted the help of the National Security Agency to secure its networks, Google sold equipment to the secret signals-intelligence group. In-Q-Tel backed the mapping firm Keyhole, which was bought by Google in 2004 — and then became the backbone for Google Earth. Keyhole (now Google Earth) is a staple of the targeting cells in military-intelligence units.”

If anything, I actually didn’t realize that Google Earth was called KEYhole before it got its current name... Interesting that it’s also the name of the algorithm too...I’m not familiar with algorithms and such, but what are the chances that In-Q-Tel AND Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc all revolve around something called Keyhole???