How CIA Made Google(medium.com) |
How CIA Made Google(medium.com) |
Basic premise seems to be that Sergey Brin received part of funding at his work at Stanford. That funding can be traced to a CIA budget and the article says that's not unusual. Google was incorporated later, the funding made some of the core algorithm work possible. I don't see a claim the CIA had any active involvement, contact or plan before or after Google was created.
They saw Google as useful in the wider intelligence and soft-power framework of the USA. Basically Google's success would further the USA's interests along with the interests of their intelligence agencies.
I think recent history has proven them to have been spot on.