[118541] in Cypherpunks
Re: IP: C.I.A. to Nurture Companies Dealing in High Technology
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Fri Oct 1 13:45:18 1999
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 19:07:13 +0200 (CEST)
Message-Id: <199910011707.TAA07220@mail.replay.com>
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999 14:37:02 -0400 , Robert Hettinga
<rah@shipwright.com> wrote
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>From: believer@telepath.com
>Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 09:38:20 -0500
>To: ignition-point@precision-d.com
>Subject: IP: C.I.A. to Nurture Companies Dealing in High Technology
>Sender: owner-ignition-point@precision-d.com
>Reply-To: believer@telepath.com
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>Source: New York Times
>http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/09/biztech/articles/29cia.html
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>September 29, 1999
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>C.I.A. to Nurture Companies Dealing in High Technology
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Gee isn't it handy to have an overt reason for the agency to interact
with companies developing privacy tools.
>In contrast to many of its other activities, he said, the agency was
>taking pains to make the activities of In-Q-It highly visible and
>public.
> That stands in striking contrast to the agency's past approach to
>high-tech projects.
>
>For many years there have been reports that the United States
>intelligence
>community created shell companies when it had a particular
>high-technology
>problem to solve.
