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by drtgh 86 days ago
> [Palantir] The Miami-based company, co-founded by the billionaire Donald Trump donor Peter Thiel

And backed by In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital (CIA, the Central Intelligence Agency of the US).

https://fortune.com/2025/07/29/in-q-tel-cia-venture-capital-...

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Even google was funded by In-Q-Tel.
Not really surprising given it was founded post-9/11 to stop another 9/11.
Epstein's friends who had appointments in the WTC on 9/11 mysteriously canceled last minute or had other excuses.

- Lutnick, whose whole Cantor & Fitzgerald was obliterated, brought his son to school after a last minute "argument with his wife".

- Sarah Ferguson was "stuck in traffic" and late.

- Michael Jackson "overslept".

There is another one whom I don't remember. Maybe the Bayesians here can calculate the probability using a control group of all well connected people who miraculously survived. There aren't that many.

Epstein and Maxwell's other friends of course were connected to funding Palantir.