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Palitronica Awarded Most Innovative Security-Focused Company of 2022 at In-Q-Tel & Silicon Valley Bank Discovery Event
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In-Q-Tel (IQT), formerly Peleus and In-Q-It, is an American not-for-profit venture capital firm based in Arlington, Virginia. It invests in high-tech companies to keep the Central Intelligence Agency, and other intelligence agencies, equipped with the latest in information
technology in support of United States intelligence capability.

In-Q-Tel started as the idea of then CIA director George Tenet.

In 1999 Tenet put forward a grand "Plan" for dealing with al-Qaeda. In preparation, he selected new leadership for the CIA's Counterterrorist
Center (CTC). He placed Cofer Black in charge of the CTC, and Richard Blee (a "top-flight executive" from Tenet's own suite) in charge of the CTC's Bin Laden unit.

In February 2008, George Tenet became a managing director at investment bank Allen & Company.

Since its founding Image
in 1982, the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference has regularly drawn high-profile attendees such as Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Rupert Murdoch, Barry Diller, Michael Eisner, Oprah Winfrey, Robert Johnson, Andy Grove, Richard Parsons, and Donald Keough.
In 2007, Allen was sole advisor to Activision in its $18 billion merger with Vivendi Games.

While Bobby Kotick was still a student in 1983 at the University of Michigan, he started a technology company called Arktronics with friend Howard Marks in their dorm room. The two
developed software for the Apple II.

During his sophomore year, Kotick met and pitched Steve Wynn to invest in Arktronics. Wynn later invested $300,000 in the company. Steve Jobs heard about Arktronics' software. He met with Kotick and Marks in Ann Arbor and advised them to
drop out of college to focus on the software business. Kotick took the advice and left the University of Michigan to focus all of his time on his company.

In October 2009, Kotick co-founded the Call of Duty Endowment (CODE), a non-profit benefit corporation.
Kotick said the idea for the Endowment came from a conversation with former Veteran's Administration Secretary Jim Nicholson.

Nicholson is senior counsel with Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP.
Between 2001 and 2005, Nicholson served as United States Ambassador to the Holy See (the Vatican). In 2003, Pope John Paul II knighted him with the Grand Cross for his leadership on human rights issues and standing for religious freedom. Order of Pius IX.

In 2016, according to a
Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) Short Form Registration Statement [8] dated October 21, 2016, Nicholson began working as “Senior Counsel” for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Working with other foreign agents hired by the lobbying firm of
Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber, & Schreck, Nicholson's primary duties include facilitating & attending meetings with U.S. federal government officials on behalf of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Before his arrest in New Zealand, Kim Dotcom was the world's number-one-ranked
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 player out of more than 15 million online players.

GENERAL JAMES L. JONES
CO-CHAIRMAN
CALL OF DUTY ENDOWMENT
He is sought after for his wisdom, guidance, and political endorsement. As the former Commander of U.S. European Command and
Supreme Allied Commander Europe, he led all military operations for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and later, as National Security Advisor

Jones established the consulting firms Ironhand Security LLC and Jones Group International LLC. The firms have worked for foreign
governments, including Saudi Arabia. After the murder of Jamal Khashoggi by the Saudi regime, Jones downplayed his firms' work with the Saudi government and said that the remaining contract with them was about to expire. However, Jones's firms subsequently expanded its ImageImageImageImage
partnership with the Saudi regime.

Boies Schiller Flexner LLP represents Amazon in corporate matters, and Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos personally retained attorneys from Boies Schiller as part of his crisis-management team in the wake of Bezos's claims of d-pic extortion twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
by AMI.

In March 2019, Gavin de Becker, who has worked for Jeff Bezos, accused the Saudi Arabian government of hacking Bezos' phone after the National Enquirer published a story about Bezos's extramarital affair. According to the BBC, de Becker, as Bezos' top security
staffer, "linked the hack to The Washington Post's coverage of the murder of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul." The Daily Beast ran an op-ed, in which de Becker explained the matter of the Saudi hack in detail. Journalist Brad Stone explored
whether the Saudi hack was linked in any way to a National Enquirer article about Bezos having an affair. United Nations Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard conducted an investigation of the Saudi hack. In a public statement, she referred to information that suggested a ImageImage
WhatsApp account belonging to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was used to deploy digital spyware on Bezos' phone, "in an effort to influence, if not silence" The Washington Post's reporting on the kingdom.

De Becker gave a eulogy at Carrie Fisher's memorial service. Fisher
and de Becker reportedly attended high school together and they are described as friends. "The first time I had sex was at Carrie's house," de Becker stated in the eulogy and added, "It wasn't with Carrie, but she arranged it." twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Carrie and Gavin attended Beverly Hills 90210 High School until age 16

The front of Beverly High was shown in a short clip of Nickelback's music video for their song "Rockstar".

Beverly gained more notoriety when Erin Brockovich and Ed Masry announced having filed
three lawsuits in 2003 and 2004 on behalf of 25, 400, and 300 (respectively) former students who attended Beverly from the 1970s until the 1990s. In April 2003, the Texas-based lawfirm of Baron & Budd partnered with the law office of Masry & Vititoe to lend its expertise in twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
lawsuits related to health risks of volatile chemicals.

BHHS alumni:
Jack Abramoff (born 1959), convicted felon, political activist and businessman, central figure in high-profile political scandals.

Michèle Flournoy (born 1960), Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
In 2007, Flournoy co-founded the Center for a New American Security. She is a co-founder and the current managing partner of WestExec Advisors.

Director of National Intelligence-designate Avril Haines disclosed that WestExec had worked with data-mining company
Palantir Technologies.

On his second tour in Afghanistan, Matt Pottinger met U.S. Army General Michael T. Flynn, with whom he co-wrote a report. The report, published in January 2010 through the Center for a New American Security, was titled Fixing Intel: A Blueprint for Making twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
Intelligence Relevant in Afghanistan.

In September 2019, newly installed National Security Advisor Robert C. O'Brien named Matt Pottinger Deputy National Security Advisor.

The National Security Council under O'Brien took a greater focus on China, and he aligned himself with
Peter Navarro.

In February 2020 virologist Steven Hatfill became Navarro's advisor with regard to the coronavirus pandemic.

Hatfill and his collaborator, SAIC vice president Joseph Soukup, commissioned William C. Patrick III, retired head of the old US bioweapons program (who
had also been a mentor of Hatfill) to write a report on the possibilities of 9/11 terrorist anthrax mailing attacks.

The original SAIC was created in 1969 by J. Robert Beyster. Then on September 27, 2013, it spun off a $4 billion unit which retained its name, while the parent
company changed its name to Leidos.

I [Robert Malone] currently serve as CEO and Principal Consultant for RW Malone MD LLC, primarily supporting the US Department of Defense, Defense Threat Reduction Agency (via contracts held by Leidos and MIT-Lincoln Lab). ImageImageImageImage

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