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10 CIA Backed Investments

Wednesday, November 28, 2012 11:40
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Remember the Semi-Submersible, the Digital X-Ray Detector Panel, or the Dragonfly Insectothopter? They’re artifacts in the CIA museum, a collection of spy gadgets, weapons, and memorabilia that goes back 100 years.
U.S. intelligence agencies have long depended on research and development in new technologies to support their surveillance work and analysis. Today’s spy gear in many cases is surprisingly accessible. In-Q-Tel, the venture investment arm of the CIA and other intelligence agencies, regularly backs companies whose products are commercially available, including some consumer technologies.
Since being formed in 1999, In-Q-Tel has invested in dozens of startups and other tech companies. In the first 10 months of 2012, the company has announced 17 tech investments. They include Contour Energy Systems, the maker of next-generation battery technology; Mersive, a supplier of “ultra high-resolution” displays (pictured above); and Reversing Lab, developer of the mysterious-sounding “decomposition technology” for computer security.
 
 
With the most popular and highest grossing James Bond film of all-time out right now, many people have been gripped with spy mania!  So I thought this article would be a nice piece for people to read up on the latest technologies and gadgets being used by spies in our own Central Intelligence Agency.  It must be quite an interesting job to have to think of these things and then to test them.  Its quite a fascinating list at the link above to read so by all means, go see what the spyworld is up to in 2012.  ~Ophelia

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