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• WPP Agency Takes Funding From CIA Investment Unit

  BNET - 2009-10-21

  WPP's Visible Technologies unit has taken investment funding from In-Q-Tel, the investment fund of the CIA. Visible Technologies is developing tools that can scan social media networks such as Twitter and Facebook, and scour meaningful data from them. by Jim Edwards

  Tags: CIA, Social Media, WPP Agency, WPP, Visible Technologies, Investment, Finance, Jim Edwards

• Kissinger reportedly covered up PLO assassination of ambassador

  - 2008-09-29

  "Henry Kissinger instructed the CIA to continue diplomatic contacts with Yassir Arafat's PLO representatives before the 1973 Yom Kippur War, even after Arafat ordered the kidnapping and murder of the American ambassador and his deputy in Khartoum, Sudan." So reported the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, on September 1, 2008. According...

  Tags: ambassador, CIA, FINANCE, Government, Investment, Leadership

• Teen in firearms case had Camp David map

  - 2008-08-07

  ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Police investigating a teenager accused of bombmaking and weapons violations found a map of Camp David with a presidential motorcade route in his home, a Montgomery County prosecutor said. Collin McKenzie-Gude, 18, of Bethesda, also had a document that appears to describe how to kill...

  Tags: attorney, CIA, FINANCE, Investment

• Bush to unveil US intelligence overhaul

  - 2008-07-31

  WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush will Thursday unveil an overhaul of the US intelligence services that strips the CIA of some power to work with foreign intelligence agencies, a White House spokeswoman said. The executive order, signed by Bush on Wednesday, "clarifies and strengthens the authorities...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Bush, CIA, director, FINANCE, Government, Investment, president, White House

• McClellan Book Wrong on Plame Leak

  - 2008-06-09

  In Scott McClellan's purported tell-all memoir of his trials as President George W. Bush's press secretary, he virtually ignores Deputy secretary of State Richard Armitage's role leaking to me Valerie Flame's identity as a CIA employee. That fits the partisan Democratic version of the Plame affair, in keeping with the...

  Tags: CIA, FINANCE, Investment, secretary

• QD Vision Raises $9 Million in Venture Capital Financing

  - 2008-04-16

  Series C Round Will Support First Commercial Products Based on QD Vision's Quantum Light[TM] Nanotech Product Platform WATERTOWN, Mass. -- QD Vision today announced it raised $9 million in venture-capital financing from two leading venture capital firms, Highland Capital Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners, and from In-Q-Tel,...

  Tags: CIA, Engineering, FINANCE, financing, HARDWARE, Investment, Nanotechnology, North, Semiconductors

• O, FR, ZZ, AHR, BXC, CIA Have Been Added To Naked Short List Today.

  - 2008-04-02

  M2 PRESSWIRE-2 April 2008-BUYINS.NET: O, FR, ZZ, AHR, BXC, CIA Have Been Added To Naked Short List TodayC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:02042008 BUYINS.NET, www.buyins.net, announced today that these select companies have been added to the NASDAQ, AMEX and NYSE naked short ...

  Tags: CIA, FINANCE, Insurance, Investment, NYSE Euronext, REIT, SEC, stock, U.S.

• Another look at yield spreads: the role of liquidity

  - 2008-04-01

  1. Introduction The expectations hypothesis hereafter EH of the term structure of interest rates states that the long-term rate is determined by the expectation for the short-term rate plus a constant term premium. With rational expectations, one of the EH implications is that the coefficient in a regression of...

  Tags: alphA, bank, Campbell, CIA, coefficient, Cook, FINANCE, Hamilton, Hansen, Investment, liquidity, M., Robert, Simon

• Ex-Bush aide says he was misled

  - 2007-11-21

  Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a memoir that he unintentionally misled the public about the leak of a CIA operative's name because of misinformation given to him by President Bush, political adviser Karl Rove and other top officials. A three-paragraph excerpt from the book...

  Tags: CIA, FINANCE, Investment, Libby, memoir, president, White House

• CopperEye Announces Strategic Investment and Technology Advancement Agreement with In-Q-Tel

  - 2007-10-09

  Agreement Adds CopperEye to Prestigious Portfolio of Leading-Edge Technology Companies Working with Strategic Fund that focuses on U.S. Intelligence Community STAMFORD, Conn. -- CopperEye today announced a strategic investment and work development and licensing program with In-Q-Tel, the independent strategic investment firm that identifies innovative technology solutions to support...

  Tags: agreement, CIA, Databases, FINANCE, HARDWARE, Investment, SOFTWARE, Storage