Loeb,
Vernon. "CIA Adventures in Venture Capital: Hill Reviewing Agency's
Multimillion-Dollar In-Q-Tel Offshoot for Value." Washington Post,
3 Jun. 2001, A5. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]Materials presented in chronological order.
Loeb,
Vernon. "CIA Adventures in Venture Capital: Hill Reviewing Agency's
Multimillion-Dollar In-Q-Tel Offshoot for Value." Washington Post,
3 Jun. 2001, A5. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
"Three years after the CIA began pouring millions of dollars into an unclassified venture capital fund called In-Q-Tel, Congress has convened a panel of technical experts to determine whether the initiative is worth the money in the face of emerging Internet technologies."
Loeb,
Vernon. "Panel Supports CIA Venture Fund: Agency Still Slow to Embrace
New Technology, Report Says." Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2001,
A17. [http://www. washingtonpost.com]
According to a panel of business executives, representatives from a nonprofit group called Business Executives for National Security, "[t]he CIA's unclassified venture capital fund, In-Q-Tel, should continue as the agency's 'technology accelerator'.... But ... the panel said significant reforms must be made -- particularly within the CIA -- if innovation spawned by In-Q-Tel is ever to transform the way the agency collects, analyzes and disseminates information gathered externally and generated from within."
U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings. "In-Q-Tel: Bringing Next-Generation Technologies to the CIA." Sep. 2001, 35.
Report on remarks by In-Q-Tel CEO and President Gilman Louie, presumably at a panel, "How Do We Win the War to Protect the Information," at the Naval Institute/AFCEA Western Conference and Exposition in January 2001.
Lashinsky, Adam. “Spying on Sand Hill.” Fortune, 24 Jun. 2002, 42.
Interview with Gilman Louie, head of In-Q-Tel.
Henry,
Shannon. "In-Q-Tel, Investing in Intrigue: CIA Unit Scours Country
for Useful Technologies." Washington Post, 1 Jul. 2002, E1.
[http://www.washingtonpost.com]
Since its creation in 1999, In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital unit, "has made about a dozen investments in technologies that could potentially be used in information gathering and analysis of America's enemies." After September 11, "In-Q-Tel became a sort of anti-terrorism matchmaker, introducing those with problems to those with high-tech detective abilities."
Associated Press. "Gemplus Executive Leaves In-Q-Tel." Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2002, E5. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
"Alex Mandl, the newly appointed chief executive of smart-card maker Gemplus International SA, said [on 30 August 2002] he has resigned from the board of the CIA's venture capital technology unit, In-Q-Tel."
O'Hara, Terence. "In-Q-Tel, CIA's Venture Arm, Invests in Secrets." Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2005, D1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
"In the five years since it began active operations as the 'venture capital arm' of the CIA, In-Q-Tel's reach and activities have become vast for so small an operation. It has invested in more than 75 companies and delivered more than 100 technologies to the CIA, most of which otherwise would never have been considered by the intelligence agency."
McCarthy, Ellen. "Tech Entrepreneur Joins CIA's Venture Capital Arm." Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2006, D4. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
Amit Yoran, previously the Department of Homeland Security's cyber-security chief, has replaced Gilman Louie as chief executive at In-Q-Tel, the CIA's nonprofit venture-capital arm.
O'Hara, Terence. "Four Months Later, In-Q-Tel Again Needs New CEO." Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2006, D1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
"Amit Yoran resigned over the weekend as chief executive of In-Q-Tel ... after less than four months on the job.... He said [on 23 April 2006] that his reasons for leaving were entirely personal, including a desire to spend less time on the road and more with his family.... Yoran ... said the organization has an annual budget of more than $50 million ... and includes as 'investors' several other intelligence and homeland security agencies in addition to the CIA."
Hilzenrath, David S. "Cyber Security Specialist Named to Lead In-Q-Tel." Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2006, D1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
Christopher A.R. Darby has been hired to head In-Q-Tel, "the venture capital arm of the CIA and other intelligence agencies." He replaces Amit Yoran, who resigned in April. Darby had been "general manager of an Intel Corp. division."
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