In-Q-Tel

It Pays to Play With the CIA 

By Elliot Borin  | 

If you're planning to take the field in the browser wars, you'd better have a gimmick. Preferably a world-class gimmick.

Whether Browse3D's gimmick -- a central window flanked by smaller panes showing linked pages and previously viewed pages -- is better than NetCaptor's tabbed gimmick and Opera's multiple-page-view gimmick, depends on one's point of view.

One thing, however, is certain. None of Browse3D's competitors can match its financial gimmick: funding from In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology.

Incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation (originally called In-Q-It) in early 1999, In-Q-Tel was a response to a growing in-house perception that the agency had been tardy in entering the information age.

"As an information-based agency, the CIA must be at the cutting edge of information technology in order to maintain its competitive edge and provide its customers with intelligence that is both timely and relevant," In-Q-Tel's first director of business operations, Rick Yannuzzi, said in an early position paper.

"In contrast to the remarkable transformations taking place in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, the agency ... felt itself being left behind.... It was not connected to the creative forces that underpin the digital economy."

Any resemblance between In-Q-Tel and private-sector venture capitalists is entirely non-coincidental.

"We have about 200 venture capital firms we work with and get referrals from," said Gayle von Eckartsberg, In-Q-Tel's associate vice president of corporate communications. "We reach out to Silicon Valley, research labs and small companies that might otherwise never get noticed by the government. We make investments ourselves, join other investment groups, introduce companies to other CIA customers ... anything we can do to make sure we get leading-edge technology."

Like most private-sector financiers, In-Q-Tel concentrates its resources on a relatively small number of interrelated disciplines, including knowledge management, security, search and discovery, distributed data collection and geospatial data services. Of its current $30 million annual budget, about 20 percent is used to support a staff of 45. The balance goes to nurturing businesses engaged in developing technology that may eventually find its way into CIA operations offices.

"In-Q-Tel is a private company with our own board and a contract from the government to find companies with promising products, primarily in the IT area, and build strategic relationships with them," von Eckartsberg said. "A lot of the best IT R&D comes from small companies, research labs or spinoffs from bigger companies.... The nature of IT technology is a very short shelf life and quick turnover. We have to be very quick to get the latest thing."

Trying to perpetually keep abreast of the latest information technology is one thing; affixing the Great Seal of the United States to a particular Web browser or meta-search engine may be another.

"What about the firms and innovators who had to pay the taxes that funded this program in the first place?" asks Paul Sepp, vice president of communications for the National Taxpayers Union. "What about the venture capitalists of the world who choose to pursue their ideas without quasi-federal assistance, and may have to endure a disadvantage over competitors who have secured funds?"

"Imagine any company going to the government as a customer," responded von Eckartsberg. "They're going to bring in a certain product and the government is going to say 'we want you to do this and that.' At the end of the day, the government is going to demand customization of the technology just as any other customer would and that company is going to have to compete with all the others. There's An unfair playing field built into the process."

To date, In-Q-Tel has evaluated about 2,000 business plans, the majority from firms without prior experience as government contractors. Strategic relationships based on direct investment -- usually in the $1 million to $3 million range -- and/or logistical support have been established with over 20 companies, and 19 projects have resulted in the development of a product or process already deployed by the agency.

For better or worse, richer taxpayers or poorer ones, the In-Q-Tel concept seems here to stay. The Army has already received the green light to establish a "GI" version and Congress has urged Navy brass to drop anchor in an autonomous R&D corporation all its own.

http://www.space.com/news/secret_sat_000906.html see keyword David H. Adrian use Google.

Church of God in the United States Air Force and the entire Military ... click here!

Day said that the KH-7 photos should be "interesting and exciting." Run under code name "GAMBIT", the KH-7 cranked out pictures better in detail than even the best commercial imagery satellites in operation today, he said.

"GAMBIT was started after Gary Powers got shot down in May 1960. It was intended to replace the U-2 [high-altitude aircraft] by providing high-resolution reconnaissance of the Soviet Union," Day said.

Together, the KH-7 and KH-9 acquired some 50,000 images.

Mars Probe[s] sabotaged?

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/mars_polar_lander_031222.html

At NASA's request, a team from the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) -- recently renamed as the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency -- carried out a detailed search of the primary MPL landing area utilizing MOC images and an array of high-tech analytical equipment.

Why NIMA? The agency is both a combat support as well as national intelligence agency whose mission is to provide timely, relevant and accurate geospatial intelligence, or GEOINT, in support of our national security. The agency is an acclaimed leader in describing, assessing, and visually depicting physical features on Earth. In short, it makes use of such hush-hush tools as spy satellites.

The NIMA Mars sleuthing work was led by Ivar Svendsen, who had 27 years of experience in imagery analysis, but who has since passed away.

Svendsen was joined in the search for Mars Polar Lander by the imagery expertise of James Salacain who had at the time chalked up some 15 years of specialized duty in support of the national imagery community.

In a December 2002 article in Geospatial Intelligence Review, the two NIMA analysts, Svendsen and Salacain, remain steadfast about their observations.

The signatures at the three sites studied "appeared to be reflected light or glints" from some portion of the Mars Polar Lander Entry, Descent and Landing system and/or the lander itself, they asserted.

The NIMA team does note that spurious camera noise cannot be ruled out. However, "the coincidental appearance of spurious noise within the MPL primary landing site that also happened to emulate MPL-like imagery signatures was considered unlikely."

In a postscript to their work, the NIMA researchers underscored the fact that NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), set for takeoff in 2005, is built to take very-high-resolution snapshots of the planet's surface. Those MRO images "may help finally resolve the mystery of what actually happened to the MPL," they explained.

"If not, the MPL mystery may have to patiently away a final and definitive investigation by a future visiting astronaut on-site inspection team from Earth," the NIMA experts concluded.

RE: transmissions between the three SU-15's, the Mig-23 and the airbase & Lt. Col Gennadij Nikolaevich Osipovich -- What the MIG Russian pilot had to say who 'shot down' the KAL007 of which the KAL pilot was trained by David H. Adrian: transcript below.

KAMCHATKA---KAL007, 1980s, and again Aug. 7, 2005:

The C-5 U.S. military transport plane sent Aug. 5/6th, 2005, to the Kamchatka Russian region, the very same region where the KAL-007 pilot got lost in the early 1980s and was shot down killing all aboard the commercial jetliner, will be the first U.S. military aircraft since Wotrld War II to fly into the region, which has numerous closed military sectors.

Much remains uncertain, including what exactly ensnared the small Russian submarine, a 44-foot-long craft know as an AS-28 Priz, which itself is designed for undersea rescues.

According to officials and Russian news reports, the Russian mini-submarine had been conducting routine maintenance on an underwater surveillance system, a vestige of the cold-war cat-and-mouse espionage that took place beneath the seas. Kamchatka, a long remote peninsula on Russia's Far Eastern reaches, was a front line in that confrontation.

Despite the history of tension, the British and the Americans were able to dispatch help so quickly this week because a number of nations had formed a group to facilitate submarine rescues after the Kursk tragedy.

The Kursk was one of Russia's most prized military assets, and the exercise in which it was lost had been launched in part to restore some of the Russian nation's fading military prestige.

The Priz class of mini-submarines, also known as AS-28 bathyscaphes, are titanium-hulled vessels that can be launched from rescue or salvage ships and travel 3.3 knots under the sea, according to Jane's Information Group, which follows military and defense affairs worldwide.

They were built in the late 1980's, and designed to shuttle batches of up to 20 sailors from other submarines that had become trapped undersea. At least one was used in the failed effort to rescue those who clung on for life on the Kursk five years ago.

Details of how the submarine, a 44-foot-long rescue craft known as an AS-28 Priz, became disabled also began to emerge, although very much remains uncertain.

The Russian navy initially said the mini-vessel had snagged on a fishing net, which entangled the propeller and sent the vessel to the sea floor. By late Friday night, however, Admiral Fyodorov began describing an accident of a different order.

When pressed by Russian journalists on live television, he said the vehicle had in fact become entangled on what he described as an undersea military antenna, which itself was secured to the sea bed by at least one 60-ton anchor.

KAL 007 Korean Air Lines Passenger Flight #007 pilot trained by David Adrian, trainer from the USA, Sept. 1983

What the Russian MIG pilot had to say:

"Long after the "Boeing" incident, I was delivering a fighter from

the factory, when the engine stopped. There were ammunition warehouses

below. However, I was able to aim the plane off to the side. However, I

had to parachute out at a low altitude. I injured my spine. It was

almost a year before I recovered. I was physically unable to fly after

this. But if I couldn't fly, then what was there for me to do? I wasn't

cut out to be put in charge of some warehouse. Therefore, I retired

into the reserves as soon as I was eligible. People not associated with

the air force do not understand my decision. They laugh and call me

foolish..."

"You mentioned people playing it safe and about the "libretto" for

your television interview. What did you mean by that?"

"I was surprised that some of the important leaders were so wishy

washy. Because for the most part, I have no doubts, even now, that we

were right in what we did. For a period of two and a half hours, an

unidentified aircraft was violating our air space. During this time, it

flew over 2,000 kilometers. All the air traffic controllers from

foreign governments were silent, busy chewing gum. What do you order

done in such a situation? Sit with folded hand? We shot it down

legally. But later they began to lie about little things. They said,

you know, that the aircraft was flying without lights, that tracer

shells were fired as a warning, that I was in radio communications with

him, or tried to do this on emergency frequency 121.5 Mhz. Why, there

wasn't any time for this! That would mean that I would be out of

contact with the ground. I am sure that we tried too hard to appear

completely innocent and as a result, we over did it..."

"As for me, I did my duty to the end. If I were ever in the same

situation, (I am talking about an intruder of course, not a civilian

aircraft with passengers on board) I would do everything I could to

intercept the aircraft. That is what I trained and studied for all my

life. And that, be assured, is not boasting."

"Were you decorated for this action?"

"No. One of my comrades received a promotion, another received a

medal. But I - nothing. But that is not the point."

"What do you do today?"

"What is there for a pensioner to do? I bought a plot of land.

Built a home. I raise strawberries. I am expecting a grandson. My

daughter promised by summer... I dream of giving him my uniform. That

is all I have left from the air force. I am still waiting for the truth

to come out about the "Boeing", how it could have happened, how it came

to be over our territory, what was its purpose? And more. Was the

"black box" ever found?! And if yes, what does it show? This is not

idle curiosity; it's vital so such mistakes are not repeated. By the

way, I heard that back on Sakhalin, they found the "Boeing." That they

even examined it. But they did not find any people on it. However, I

explain this, by the fact that there are crabs in the sea off Sakhalin,

that immediately devour everything... I heard that they only found a

hand in a black glove. Maybe that was the hand that piloted the

aircraft I shot down? You know, I am not sure even now that there were

passengers on board. You can't write everyone off to crabs...

There must have been something left?... I still subscribe to the old version,

that this was a spy plane. In any case, he didn't overfly our territory

by accident."

a s t r o a l e r t

Surrounding the Earth, beginning at an altitude of 1,000 miles and extending an additional 25,000 miles, lie lethal bands of radiation called the Van Allen radiation belts

.... now that alleged Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin has thumped a man who claimed that his moon landing was actually filmed in the Nevada desert. This man, one Bart Sibrel, has made documentaries called A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon and Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land On the Moon? and confronted Aldrin, 72, in a Beverly Hills hotel earlier this week. Sibrel, 37, demanded that Aldrin swear on a Bible that he had really landed on the moon. Aldrin declined to do so, and then his fist really landed on Sibrel's face.

Sibrel claims to have uncovered 33-year-old footage that shows the Apollo 11 crew falsifying part of their photography. Which at least might get Kubrick off the hook. He claims that the Apollo 11 crew put a transparency of the Earth in front of their space-capsule window and then taped the transparency as they made a "journey" to the moon.

"Surrounding the Earth, beginning at an altitude of 1,000 miles and extending an additional 25,000 miles, lie lethal bands of radiation called the Van Allen radiation belts," Sibrel tells me. "Recently uncovered footage of the crew of the Apollo 11 staging part of their mission proves that the astronauts never made it beyond Earth orbit."

Footage purportedly from the moon shows the US flag fluttering in the lunar breeze. "How could there be a breeze when there is no atmosphere?" Sibrel asks. Sibrel is one of many who believe the moon remains untouched by human space-boot. Ralph Rene, author of Nasa Mooned America, says that Nasa photographs, allegedly from the moon's surface, show scenes supposedly lit solely by sunlight, but they contain shadows that do not run parallel with each other, indicating supplemental artificial light. Sunlight would cast shadows that would never intersect, he claims.

But the best hoax theorist is Bill Kaysing, author of We Never Went to the Moon. He claims: "The astronauts would have been overwhelmed by the sight of trillions of stars. But not one picture has ever come back from the alleged trip to the moon showing the stars in all their magnificence, nor do any of the astronauts comment on the stars."

Kaysing reckons that the Challenger space shuttle really did blow up in 1981, but that it was no accident. It was exploded by Nasa because "Christa McAuliffe, the only civilian and only woman aboard, refused to go along with the lie that you couldn't see stars in space. So they blew her up, along with six other people, to keep that lie under wraps."

***************************
Flurry of Satellites to Monitor Earth and Examine Galaxy

December 10, 2002

By WARREN E. LEARY   WASHINGTON, Dec. 9, 2002 - NASA will finish its year of space exploration by launching a small flurry of satellite missions to monitor the ice and sea winds of Earth and to look at the bubble of hot gas that surrounds the Milky Way.   Two missions, the Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite, or IceSat, and the Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer satellite, or ChipSat, are to be launched on Dec. 19 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on the same Boeing Delta II rocket.

The third effort, a large microwave radar instrument, SeaWinds, is a major part of Japan's Advanced Earth Observing Satellite II. Adeos II is scheduled for launching by a Japanese H-IIA rocket on Friday at the Tanegashima Space Center.

The $16 million ChipSat will look at an unusual part of this space where the solar system is situated, the Local Bubble. The region, 300 light-years in diameter, is filled with gas much less dense than the average interstellar medium, probably as a result of a supernova explosion millions of years ago.

Regarding the little-studied extreme ultraviolet region of the electromagnetic spectrum. ChipSat, from its orbit 367 miles above Earth, will measure the intensity and distribution of the extreme ultraviolet glow to test competing theories on how the gas forms into denser clouds, Dr. Hurwitz said.

The largest new mission, IceSat, is a major component of a program to study changes in the Earth's climate. The $282 million mission, intended to operate for three to five years, will use a laser instrument to measure precisely the changing elevations of large polar ice sheets from season to season, as well as noctilucent clouds and amorphous solid water.

In addition, the laser scanner will measure cloud height and distribution, particularly as related to noctilucent ice sheets, as well as land elevation, sea ice and vegetation cover.

The satellite, 373 miles up, will perform the measurements 40 times a second.

IceSat should help us reduce the uncertainty of ice-melt. estimates.

Winds play a major role in weather and climate, affecting the exchange of moisture, heat and greenhouse gases between the atmosphere and the oceans.

In addition to aiding long-term research, up to 15 times a day, SeaWinds will beam data for use by the [NOAA] National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other agencies in improving forecasting and storm warnings, as well as helping generate ice maps to protect shipping lanes.

SeaWinds, a 441-pound instrument will make 400,000 measurements a day by transmitting high-frequency microwave pulses to the ocean surface. They are to be echoed back to the satellite 500 miles above.

Scientists from Taiwan and the United States said typhoons that swept over the South China Sea generated upwellings of nutrient-rich water from the deep ocean, stimulating vast blooms of algae, an important food for marine life.

" ... Two new [players] are international ventures, namely the LEOLINK consortium set up by ISRAEL AIRCRAFT INDUSTRIES, LTD. (IAI), of Tel Aviv, Israel, with U.S. and French partners and the German-Russian EUROROCK Launch Services joint venture. ... We realized that 70% of the small satellite launch market worldwide was in the United States, with a strong share of government launches," Claude Oiknine, small launchers Program Director for LEOLINK, told ISIR. "So we had to adapt to penetrate the market." For the last six years, Oiknine has been trying to sell a stretched version of IAI's SHAVIT launcher on the commercial market. As U.S. government launches are reserved to launch providers with at least 51% U.S. ownership and operating vehicles at least 51% built in the US by U.S. companies, IAI couldn't find any solution other than to to turn its SHAVIT into a U.S. launcher. ... THIOKOL is considered the preferred choice for the 13-ton motor intitially developed by ISRAEL Military Industries (IMI) of Ramat Hasharon, Israel."



AIR SAFE FINANCIAL'S chronology of FATAL BOEING 727 Events

Excerpts from the September 7, 1998 INTER@CTIVE WEEK, page 29.

"Strikes Show BELLS' Tightrope Walk"

by Louis Trager

"In the first strike in U.S. West history, about 34,000 Communications Workers of America (CWA) members walked picket lines.

[...] According to U.S. West's official statement ... an innovative pay-for-performance plan ... rewards employees for improving service to our customers ... it also lets the company perform quality MONITORING to prevent problems.

[...] Early reports didn't indicate whether U.S. West agreed to recognize CWA representation of WIRELESS & DATA Employees, without a company fight, if the union demonstrated majority support through collection of sign-up cards.

[...] According to Kagan and the CWA, U.S. West employees were not against the idea of pay-for-performance; they were worried, however, that they would be caught in a no-win situation, in which they could be penalized for spending too much time with a customer for quality purposes or rushing through jobs to hit quantity goals.

The U.S. West battle followed a short walkout against Bell Atlantic, which blankets the East Coast. In that strike, the central issue was union efforts to extend representation into high-growth data businesses, such as the company's Internet service and Network Integration units.

[...] Unlike U.S. West, Bell Atlantic found its bargaining position constrained by the politics of merger regulation. The company could not afford a long strike, which would have damaged its ability to carry out REGULATORY CONDITIONS of its takeover of NYNEX Corp., and to gain needed support from WALL STREET and regulators for a proposed MEGAMERGER with GTE Corp., analysts say."

GO TO PART 2 HERE ...

Click here to go immediately to Section II of the Satellite Tip Sheet, "Steel Industry and Aerospace Expansion"

###############################

Here are some highly recommended sites:

Is an OUTSOURCED worker who lost his/her job better off than a DEAD used up eradicated TEMP and/or a jobless American who cannot get in the front of the line with the INSOURCED illegal immigrant workers rushing to the payroll window....click here and learn the funeral music and how to dress for the end....

B.Traven & His Circle of Friends....click here now for Y0UR OWN Treasure of the Sierra Madre!

The King of tracking neuro-prosthetic brain implantation 'shadow activities', Andrew Bestor, supertramp of 'tramp journalists' on the internet, brings you in his NEW AMERICAN THEATER web-encyclopedia, all you really DON'T need to know [it will scare you] about nanobot injections, brain cortex inserts while sleeping, remote viewing and synthetic telepathy .... all futuristic descendents of the MKULTRA program but in use in too many involuntary places, click here and prepare to spend your life wrapped up in tin toil to deflect the invasive microwaves, once 'they' know you have found out their secrets!

The Queen of prying open lies and misdemeanors and felonies just like cheap tins of sardines, buried within our Army Medical and NIH and CDC and FDA monkey houses of trick mirrors, KATHLEEN DICKSON, supertrampess of 'tramp journalists' on the internet, expert & scientist on Borrelia burgdorferi, aka, Lyme Disease, and also chief activist guiding Lyme victims to counteract the propoganda of Yale and The Lyme Disease Foundation Inc., brings you her own Lyme disease and related politics weblog called ACTION LYME .... click here now and be riveted by the truth !

" Who Will Drive a Stake Through the God of War?"

"Strike Workers of America, STRIKE!"

KAL007 TRAINER

Adrian Report on Ducks Unlimited being used as a patsy by Republican developers [and Democrats too], under the guise of restoring our wetlands, a caper as colossal as FEMA!

The Adrian Report on Healthcare Abuses -- even those Approved by the Senate/Congress!!

PROTEUS, the Human Fish of Slovenia, and Darwin's Intelligent Design, by Bryan Adrian

Scalar Haarp-Gwen wars....

Satellites

ONE

part ONE

TWO

part TWO

How SEIU union and AFL-CIO union and the temp lobby NATSS all cater to illegal immigrants and could care less about you!

MOLDOVA MONASTARIES and related history:

MOLDOVA & Satan

	Literary Read Out at DORIAN'S, NYC
	Review of Neil Labute's first plays
	THE RABBI WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
	A new drama, 'Druids In Deep Space' in progress--a play in suspension
	EYES WIDE SHUT -- What was Kubrick saying in cryptic symbols before Spielberg had him ....
	BAD DAD IN BAGHDAD
	Bill Gates and Permanent Temps [PERMATEMPS] and his role in GLOBAL OUTSOURCING
	"Why we have more Lice than Properly Counted Votes in the USA," by Bryan Adrian
	THE HOLLYWOOD TATTLER !!!
	Hot young actress from Bulgaria ... what a career!!

Ground Zero

http://ground_zero_fake.tripod.com/BOVIS.html

http://www.geocities.com/our4horsemen/cassandrasky.html

MONICA LEWINSKY'S PRISON NOTEBOOKS!

http://monicalewinskysthigh.tripod.com/munchable.html

"GOODBYE and GOOD RIDDANCE, Rudy Giuliani !!!"

http://www.geocities.com/antarii_rescue/malachias.html

http://www.geocities.com/chemosh_of_ammon/NGC1987A.html

"TIME TRAVEL: Cosmic Unicorns"

http://www.geocities.com/antarii_rescue/index.html

"CARBON STARS, Stonehedge, and The Parker Spiral"

http://www.geocities.com/antarii_rescue/index2.html

"KRAKENS: Commandos Against the Cigar Galaxy

http://www.geocities.com/our4horsemen/krakenwarriors.html

"Blood-Stained ANDROMEDA GALAXY: Cannibalism--Strains"

http://www.geocities.com/chemosh_of_ammon/NGC1987A.html

"Satellite GYROSCOPE Failures and Bytes of .666"

http://www.geocities.com/antarii_rescue/TOMBShistory.html

"ALL SYSTEMS GO-GO-GO: COMET LINEAR C 1999 S4, Still Intact"

http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/krakenwarriors/scout.html

"THE METEOR KRONIKLES: GALLED in ISRAEL"

http://www.geocities.com/antarii_rescue/banyanfig.html

"ASTEROID REPLICANTS: Polymer Clones

http://www.geocities.com/antarii_rescue/banyanfig2.html

"NEMATODES, Icelandic VOLCANOES, and Tasty ATP Hemoglobin

http://www.geocities.com/antarii_rescue/antares.html

"Killer Wasps and Rabies: ... METEORIC Mummy

http://www.geocities.com/antarii_rescue/aldebaran.html

click here now for PART TWO of TEMP SLAVERY IN AMERICA: UNEMPLOYMENT DEATH & DESTRUCTION

click here for PART TWO