C_A attempts to weaken NSA while building their own competing capabilities.
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A Google security chief considers the NSA a state-sponsored threat
https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/18/a-google-security-chief-considers-the-nsa-a-state-sponsored-threat/
"Moderator and TechCrunch Senior Editor Frederic Lardinois asked Adkins if she thinks of the NSA as a state-sponsored threat in the same way as China and Russia. She confirmed, yes, she considers the US’ National Security Agency in that way."
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Many articles after the Snowden disclosures trying to drive a wedge between NSA and mathematicians:
https://www.businessinsider.com/mathematicians-at-the-nsa-2014-6
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229660-200-maths-spying-the-quandary-of-working-for-the-spooks/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/05/mathematicians-urge-colleagues-to-refuse-to-work-for-the-nsa/#7e28fc2b19c2
http://www.ams.org/notices/201311/rnoti-p1432.pdf
Sure looks like a controlled narrative to try to weaken the NSA by the C_A backed players…
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How the CIA made Google:
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e836451a959e
In-Q-Tel
Highlands Forum
Linton Wells
Navy Captain Richard "Dick" Patrick O'Neill
The Highlands Group Inc.
Highlands Group was an official Pentagon project appointment by Bill Clinton's defense secretary Willam Perry
"Highlands Forum" policies specialism is Information Warfare
Andrew (Andy) (Yoda) Marshall
Santa Fe Institue
note: Santa Fe Institute is 2.2 miles from Bill Richardson's Richardson Center for Global Engagement
"Total participants in the DoD’s Highlands Forum number over a thousand, although sessions largely consist of small closed workshop style gatherings of maximum 25–30 people, bringing together experts and officials depending on the subject. Delegates have included senior personnel from SAIC and Booz Allen Hamilton, RAND Corp., Cisco, Human Genome Sciences, eBay, PayPal, IBM, Google, Microsoft, AT&T, the BBC, Disney, General Electric, Enron, among innumerable others; Democrat and Republican members of Congress and the Senate; senior executives from the US energy industry such as Daniel Yergin of IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates; and key people involved in both sides of presidential campaigns."
"Other participants have included senior media professionals: David Ignatius, associate editor of the Washington Post and at the time the executive editor of the International Herald Tribune; Thomas Friedman, long-time New York Times columnist; Arnaud de Borchgrave, an editor at Washington Times and United Press International; Steven Levy, a former Newsweek editor, senior writer for Wired and now chief tech editor at Medium; Lawrence Wright, staff writer at the New Yorker; Noah Shachtmann, executive editor at the Daily Beast; Rebecca McKinnon, co-founder of Global Voices Online; Nik Gowing of the BBC; and John Markoff of the New York Times."
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Google and CIA back intelligence company called "Recorded Future"
https://www.wired.com/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/
"Both Google Ventures and In-Q-Tel made their investments in 2009, shortly after the company was founded."
"Both In-Q-Tel and Google Ventures have seats on Recorded Future's board."