Sibel Edmonds
In-Q-Tel
was formed by the CIA in 1999 as a private, not-for-profit venture
capital firm with the specific task of delivering technology to
America’s intelligence community. Publicly, In-Q-Tel markets itself as
an innovative way to leverage the power of the private sector by
identifying key emerging technologies and providing companies with the
funding to bring those technologies to market.
In reality, however, what
In-Q-Tel represents is a dangerous blurring of the lines between the
public and private sectors in a way that makes it difficult to tell
where the American intelligence community ends and the IT sector begins.
In-Q-Tel
has generated a number of stories since its inception based on what can
only be described as the “creepiness” factor of its investments in
overtly Orwellian technologies.
This is our EyeOpener Report by James Corbett presenting documented
facts and cases on the CIA’s privately owned venture capital firm
In-Q-Tel, in which well-connected board members drawn from the private
sector profit from the investments made with CIA funds that come from
the taxpayer.
