'Show me the money!' A very appropriate cultural phrase to describe In-Q-Tel, a non-for-profit investment group that was originally chartered by the CIA, and has been run as a front group to further the agenda and plans of the CIA under the umbrella of public private partnership.

In-Q-Tel has had contracts with such companies as Pixim, a California based company that created microchips and DPS technology used in surveillance cameras and monitoring equipment, Destineer, a Minnesota based software developer that has made games such Close Combat: First to Fight (which was sanctioned by the CIA), Keyhole, who created some of the software used to create Google Earth, Gemalto, a company specializing in digital smart card technology, MetaCarta, makers of geotracker software, among others.

http://www.csoonline.com/read/030104/shop_2302.html

In-Q-Tel was started in 1999 by Gilman Louie, a venture capitalist with prior connections to the Intelligence community, and received the green light by the CIA to use In-Q-Tel to further its goals in the private sector, using black budget tax dollars, of course. In 2005 alone, In-Q-Tel was reported to have spent $65 million in tax money, all donated from the generous offices of the CIA, FBI, and DIA.

http://www.fas.org/irp/cia/news/pr093099.htm

Gilman has had his name on the CEO door of other ventures as well, including Hasbro, famous maker of Barbie and G.I.Joe. In fact, the toy and video game industry seems totally saturated with CIA and intelligence community investments. Peter Tamte, CEO of Destineer, while working on the Close Combat game, said, "to find commercial technologies that have use in our nation's security. "We're not building video games for the government. It's strictly rooted in instruction." Destineer was also not at liberty to discuss just how much money had been received by In-Q-Tel for funding, though it is estimated that In-Q-Tel itself receives somewhere between $40-$45 million a year from the CIA.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/games/2005-06-15-cia-games_x.htm

And to keep the propaganda of global security and global government in the public's mind, the current first draft script of the G.I.Joe movie includes a new acronym for the age-old fighting force. Instead of 'Government Issue Joe' fighting for American pride and freedom, G.I.Joe now stands for 'Global Integrated Joint Security Operation Entity'; and to top it off, the COBRA villain, Cobra Commander, is now a CIA agent working both sides as an arms dealer and spy for the government. Can anyone say 'sting operation gone wrong'? The decades old tactics of false flag and hedge funding is now making its way into kids' entertainment films. The current G.I.Joe screenwriter is Skip Woods, who also penned 'Swordfish', which followed a group of hackers trying to break into government databases who turn out to be rogue agents engaged in a covert operation without government approval. Is Hollywood trying to tell us something? Hey, Hollywood, we already know what the spooks are up to. Trying to spin villains into heroes won't work. Not when actors such as these take the stage.

http://www.latinoreview.com/scriptreview.php?id=62

It would seem the Intelligence community is no longer content to just put agents in the field and follow the actions and black markets deals of bad guys in order to protect us. Now they must put agents in the field to follow other double agents, who may or may not be on the take. They also have to invest millions of public tax dollars in private corporations, all who seem to deal in some form of technology or property that involves controlling, influencing, or monitoring citizens. How are millions of dollars in tax dollars tossed into private ventures supposed to fight the frightening fang beast called Al(bert)-Qaeda? How is throwing millions into the pockets of private investors and capitalists supposed to make me safer? Apparently only Hasbro action figures can save us all from Bin Laden. The only result of these private public ventures seem to be more surveillance, more laws, and more control by the military/industrial complex.