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The CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future.
Noah Shachtman, Wired on the future of the Internet
Source: Wired
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    Jon Mitchell, Kelly McBride
    This statement is true. Google’s investment in Recorded Future is fairly straightforward as documented by Google Ventures. The Google investment was first reported in May. The CIA ha a non-profit research and investment arm called In-Q-Tel, created in 1999. Part of In-Q-Tel’s mission is to strategically invest in start-up technologies that might be useful to the intelligence community. In-Q-Tel’s portfolio lists dozens of companies including Recorded Future. The reporting was pretty straightforward, since both Google and In-Q-Tel make their investments public. All it took was a reporter from Wired to put two and two together and make the observation. -- Kelly McBride on behalf of the Truthsquad editors.

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