The Google File
Research origins, intelligence links and who holds the votes
Follow the Stanford footnotes, the Keyhole investment and Alphabet's voting power in one episode dossier.
Updated 2026-10-22
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A globe with more than one customer
In its June 2003 announcement, In-Q-Tel described a February investment in Keyhole and identified itself then as a CIA-funded venture. It also reported NIMA's operational use of Keyhole technology supporting U.S. troops in Iraq.
A mapping tool can be useful to a traveller, a broadcaster and an intelligence analyst for the same reason: it makes geography understandable. The audience changes. The underlying capability can travel. Follow that capability rather than judging the technology by the friendliness of its interface.
The Keyhole connection
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