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One of the first investors in facebook was In-Q-Tel. I think most people who care about things like that already knew a long time ago.

linkregister 10y ago
I can't find any reference to In-Q-Tel ownership of Facebook: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/facebook#/entity https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/facebook#/entity > I think most people who care about things like that already knew a long time ago. What does this mean? If you have something to say, you should just say it overtly.
late2part 10y ago
This is false. Please provide supporting information for your assertion that In-Q-Tel invested in The Facebook.
- CamperBob2 10y ago
  The OP may be confusing Facebook with Google. Apparently there's some evidence of Google's ties with the US intelligence community: https://www.corbettreport.com/meet-in-q-tel-the-cias-venture-capital-firm-preview/ https://www.corbettreport.com/meet-in-q-tel-the-cias-venture... Two of the names that come up most often in connection with In-Q-Tel, however, need no introduction: Google and Facebook. The publicly available record on the Facebook/In-Q-Tel connection is tenuous. Facebook received $12.7 million in venture capital from Accel, whose manager, James Breyer, now sits on their board. He was formerly the chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, whose board included Gilman Louie, then the CEO of In-Q-Tel. The connection is indirect, but the suggestion of CIA involvement with Facebook, however tangential, is disturbing in the light of Facebook’s history of violating the privacy of its users. Google’s connection to In-Q-Tel is more straightforward, if officially denied. In 2006, ex-CIA officer Robert David Steele told Homeland Security Today that Google “has been taking money and direction for elements of the US Intelligence Community, including the Office of Research and Development at the Central Intelligence Agency, In-Q-Tel, and in all probability, both the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Army’s Intelligence and Security Command.” Later that year, a blogger claimed that an official Google spokesman had denied the claims, but no official press statement was released.

linkregister 10y ago

I can't find any reference to In-Q-Tel ownership of Facebook: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/facebook#/entity https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/facebook#/entity > I think most people who care about things like that already knew a long time ago. What does this mean? If you have something to say, you should just say it overtly.

late2part 10y ago

This is false. Please provide supporting information for your assertion that In-Q-Tel invested in The Facebook.

CamperBob2 10y ago
The OP may be confusing Facebook with Google. Apparently there's some evidence of Google's ties with the US intelligence community: https://www.corbettreport.com/meet-in-q-tel-the-cias-venture-capital-firm-preview/ https://www.corbettreport.com/meet-in-q-tel-the-cias-venture... Two of the names that come up most often in connection with In-Q-Tel, however, need no introduction: Google and Facebook. The publicly available record on the Facebook/In-Q-Tel connection is tenuous. Facebook received $12.7 million in venture capital from Accel, whose manager, James Breyer, now sits on their board. He was formerly the chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, whose board included Gilman Louie, then the CEO of In-Q-Tel. The connection is indirect, but the suggestion of CIA involvement with Facebook, however tangential, is disturbing in the light of Facebook’s history of violating the privacy of its users. Google’s connection to In-Q-Tel is more straightforward, if officially denied. In 2006, ex-CIA officer Robert David Steele told Homeland Security Today that Google “has been taking money and direction for elements of the US Intelligence Community, including the Office of Research and Development at the Central Intelligence Agency, In-Q-Tel, and in all probability, both the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Army’s Intelligence and Security Command.” Later that year, a blogger claimed that an official Google spokesman had denied the claims, but no official press statement was released.