In-Q-Tel: CIA's Venture Capital Firm's Portfolio Includes AI, Biotech, Space, and Green Energy Companies and Published a 2016 Article Warning of Future Bat Coronavirus Pandemic
In-Q-Tel is a venture capitalist firm chartered by the CIA in 1999:
In-Q-Tel’s Winter 2016 Emerging Epidemics and Coronaviruses
The IQT 2016 Winter Quarterly is entitled “Mission Possible: Quenching Epidemics”.
In an article by EcoHealth Alliance’s Peter Daszak, Daszak identifies bat coronaviruses as a potential future pandemic. Daszak writes the the following in a section entitled “Can We Predict the Pandemic Potential of a Newly Discovered Pathogen?”:
“For example, the SARS-like coronaviruses (SL-CoV) identified by our group in bats in China have varying degrees of sequence homology to the SARS coronavirus (SARSCoV). We have shown that some SL-CoVs can bind directly to the human cell surface receptor for SARSCoV, ACE2. Others have now demonstrated that chimeric viruses (SARS-CoV backbone expressing SL-CoV spike protein) can infect human cells and cause clinical signs in humanized mice.10 Importantly, there appears to be a lack of immune cross-reactivity between SARS-CoV and our SL-CoV, suggesting that our SL-CoV has significant pandemic potential. These studies provide proof-of concept for predictive approaches.”
The article cites a study from 2012 which found that the S spike in SARS-CoV allowed the virus to bind to ACE2 receptors.
The first footnote in Daszak’s article was for a Nature paper that stated the S spike protein is what allowed SARS-CoV to bind to human ACE2 receptor:
Peter Daszek takes credit for the study in the Editorial Summary section. The paper was published on October 30, 2013:
Project Veritas EcoHealth Story
In-Q-Tel platformed pro-vaccine voices, with experts claiming herd immunity required vaccination:
In-Q-Tel developed and released a COVID app during the pandemic:
Recorded Future
One of the companies in In-Q-Tel’s portfolio is Recorded Future, which describes itself as the largest intelligence company in the world. Recorded Future is a company that mines open-source data to create intelligence reports, such as threat assessments of private and public groups:
Recorded Future provides expert statements to various corporate media outlets, including The Hill, The Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. The company has expressed that Russia is likely to target US elections with disinformation:
Recorded Future’s cybersecurity reporting warning about China and Russia interfering with US elections, specifically by using social media, was cited in Voices of America:
An anonymous Recorded Future analyst provided information to Politico about Russian hacking attempts in Ukraine:
IQT and Ukraine
In-Q-Tel wrote about a geolocation satellite imagery project that used open-source information, like social media posts, to benefit information gathering during conflicts:
In-Q-Tel discussed how the Ukraine-Russia conflict demonstrated the necessity of satellites, including how vital Elon Musk’s SpaceX terminals and service were to the Ukraine war effort:
Safra Catz, The Director of Walt Disney Corporation is on the Trustee Board of In-Q-Tel:
In-Q-Tel’s portfolio includes 19 space companies (making SpaceX a competitor to CIA investments):
Other companies in In-Q-Tel’s portfolio, including Codagenix, a biotech company that develops vaccines:
This is a fascinating piece. Many thanks.