[mtmail]

The article is from 2015, at least in the middle I see updated sections marked with a January 2015 date.

Basic premise seems to be that Sergey Brin received part of funding at his work at Stanford. That funding can be traced to a CIA budget and the article says that's not unusual. Google was incorporated later, the funding made some of the core algorithm work possible. I don't see a claim the CIA had any active involvement, contact or plan before or after Google was created.

[mytailorisrich]

The point is that the CIA is not going to fund companies out of the kindness of their heart.

They saw Google as useful in the wider intelligence and soft-power framework of the USA. Basically Google's success would further the USA's interests along with the interests of their intelligence agencies.

I think recent history has proven them to have been spot on.