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However, this is far from #YouTube’s only connection to the U.S. national security state. Its parent company, Google, is essentially a creation of the CIA. Both the #CIA and the #NSA bankrolled the Ph.D. research of Google founder Sergey Brin, and senior CIA officials oversaw the evolution of Google during its pre-launch phase. As late as 2005, the CIA was still a major shareholder in Google.
These shares resulted from #Google’s acquisition of #Keyhole, Inc., a CIA-backed surveillance firm whose software eventually became Google Earth – the civilian offshoot of a spying software the U.S. government uses to surveil and target its friends and enemies. Since then, Google has become a major CIA contractor, securing a cloud services contract worth tens of billions of dollars.
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However, this is far from #YouTube’s only connection to the U.S. national security state. Its parent company, Google, is essentially a creation of the CIA. Both the #CIA and the #NSA bankrolled the Ph.D. research of Google founder Sergey Brin, and senior CIA officials oversaw the evolution of Google during its pre-launch phase. As late as 2005, the CIA was still a major shareholder in Google.
These shares resulted from #Google’s acquisition of #Keyhole, Inc., a CIA-backed surveillance firm whose software eventually became Google Earth – the civilian offshoot of a spying software the U.S. government uses to surveil and target its friends and enemies. Since then, Google has become a major CIA contractor, securing a cloud services contract worth tens of billions of dollars.
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