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Version française : Larry Ellison (I). Chapitre I. La matrice : dans l’œil de l’Oracle.
This series of investigative papers offers an in-depth analysis of the personalities gravitating around Elon Musk. Through rigorous documentation and precise bibliographic references, we will demonstrate that, contrary to the image of the visionary savior conveyed by certain media, Musk and his circle are part of a concerted strategy of social control and biotechnological development. Moreover, this ecosystem is inseparable from the military-industrial complex, a full-fledged member of the Shadow Government that directs the Deep State. Whether under Democratic or Republican administration—the latter, with Trump elevated to prophet status by his supporters, emphasizing sovereignty—the end goal remains the same: an increasingly invasive social control. This investigation will shed light on the true stakes and implications of their growing influence on our society.
Our series begins with Larry Ellison, an iconic Tech figure and co-founder of Oracle, whose connections with Elon Musk and the American security apparatus reveal the inner workings of a system far more vast than one might imagine.
Behind the scenes of technological power lies a story that many prefer to keep quiet. That of a man whose meteoric rise reveals the troubled ties between intelligence and tech: Larry (Lawrence Joseph) Ellison, Oracle's co-founder, now 80 years old, embodies this strategic alliance that began in the 1970s, without a degree in his pocket!1
Occult origins: Born in 1944 to a 19-year-old mother and an absent father, he was adopted a few months after his birth by Lillian and Louis Ellison (Russian emigrants), his great-aunt and great-uncle respectively; he grew up in Chicago.2
In 1966, he moved to California and enrolled in Berkeley to take some computer science courses. It's worth noting that he worked for Ampex (1973-1976) and Precision Instruments (1976-1977). These two companies, which specialized in magnetic recording technologies, worked closely with the CIA, NASA, and the Navy.3
Ampex collaborated notably on classified projects, including the mysterious “Project Oracle” mass storage system—4 Ampex worked on a number of classified projects, including the mysterious "Project Oracle" mass-storage system—although this project never came to fruition, a name that would later resonate with disturbing echoes.5 The name ORACLE is no coincidence: it originally stood for Optimum Records Automation for Court and Law Enforcement—Ellison couldn't have been unaware of that!
In 1977, he co-founded Software Development Laboratories (SDL) with his former Ampex colleagues, Bob Miner and Ed Oate—he served as CEO until 2014. SDL, which became Relational Software Inc. (RSI) and then Oracle Corporation (1982),6 won its first contracts with... the CIA and OMEX (formerly Precision Instruments)—where SDL's offices were located for some time and where its “Oracle” program was developed and tested.7 A coincidence that marked the beginning of a long series of strategic government contracts.
In fact, David Kaplan writes about this:
If most of Ellison is an act, he is a master showman. Microsoft makes software that you and I use at home or work. Oracle software, on the other hand, is invisible; you’re more likely to know the name of the governor of Minnesota than to have a clue about what Ellison’s company makes. But it’s important stuff: Oracle software organizes hundreds of critical databases for the military, for government agencies, for traditional businesses and online retailers. When the CIA needs to access how many pastry chefs in Europe it has on retainer, and which of them went to college with Benjamin Netanyahu, it uses Oracle software. So, too, does the KGB and England’s MI-5. When American Airlines needs to reconfigure routes based on passenger capacity on its 767s, it uses Oracle software. But the company has little profile—no dancing bunnies, no brightly colored logo, few ad campaigns. It does have Larry Ellison.8
His meteoric rise foreshadowed a model of data control that has continued to expand ever since. This quest for technological power is illustrated by his relationships with other controversial tech figures such as Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies, and Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, Blue Origin, and co-initiator of Amazon Web Service (AWS). This proximity is not insignificant given the close ties between Palantir, AWS, and the intelligence community.
As for his personal life, it's not exactly a success story, as he's been married several times. In the 90s he was known as
the alpha-male playboy from central casting—tall,thrice-divorced connoisseur of long-legged blondes (preferably employees), defendant in a sexual harassment suit, and the life of any party, as long as he’s the center of attention.9
Today, as Oracle invests heavily in AI and GPU (Graphics Processing Units) technologies,10 Ellison is extending his influence far beyond technology: 98% owner of the Hawaiian island of Lanai since 2012, where he will reside since 2020,11 owner of several luxury resorts and the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament in Indian Wells,12 investor in Tesla, where he was a board member until 2022,13 shareholder of X through his trust…14 His grip now extends to traditional media with the acquisition of Paramount Global, a six-billion-dollar investment made by the Ellison family through Skydance Media,15 illustrating their desire to control not only technological infrastructure but also content. An empire that reveals the true faces behind the masquerade of self-proclaimed tech visionaries!
What's more, the Ellison family's acquisition of Paramount Global is unique and troubling, to say the least, given the close ties to the intelligence community through Oracle—indeed, the shared interest in control and influence. Let's not lose sight of the fact that, as declassified Department of Defense and CIA documents reveal, the Hollywood film industry has historically served as a vehicle for propaganda and narrative control. Thousands of films and TV series have been altered or influenced by the Pentagon and the CIA, which have their own liaison offices in Hollywood—this collaboration goes far beyond mere technical advice: the government agencies often demand substantial changes to scripts in exchange for logistical support, or even impose the deletion or addition of entire scenes to serve their communication objectives.16
Ellison's influence extends far beyond American borders. For example, For example, Oracle has had a presence in Israel since 1996. This proximity is reinforced by Safra Catz, an American-Israeli, who has been Oracle's CEO since 2014 and whose influence extends beyond the company: a former member of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, the Disney board of directors, and the Homeland Security Advisory Council (2022-2024), among other appointments!—She is a perfect example of the interweaving of technology, intelligence, and soft power.
In addition, echoing Ellison's personal investment in X, Oracle is also expanding its influence on social networks: since 2022, the company has been TikTok's cloud provider in the U.S.,17 a deal originally intended to address national security concerns after an attempted ban under the first Trump administration. At the time, Oracle and Walmart were to take a 20% stake in "TikTok Global"—a project that didn't materialize following Trump's defeat in 2020. A new attempt was initiated by early 2025, with Oracle taking a minority stake. In this scheme, the company would oversee TikTok's algorithm, data collection, and software updates, strengthening its social surveillance capabilities.18
On a more personal level, and likely due to his Jewish background,19 he maintains close ties to Israel, most notably through large donations.20 His support for Zionist policies has exposed him to legal action:21 in 2016, a billion-dollar lawsuit was filed against him and other pro-Israeli donors,22 accusing them of complicity in war crimes and supporting the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.
TOC
In-Q-Tel: When the CIA Shapes the Future of Disruptive Technologies
Ellison-Thiel: When Immortality Wannabes Serve the Military-Industrial Complex
Oracle-AWS: a Strategic Alliance under the Aegis of the Intelligence Community
Oracle and the Prophet: a Strategic Alliance in the Name of AI
Inside Oracle's Bowels: The Surveillance Data Centers
In a spectacular turnaround that perfectly illustrates its opportunism—or, more likely, a strategy dictated by the ecosystem of intelligence agencies with which it has been in contact since its Silicon Valley beginnings—Oracle today continues its expansion with 162 cloud data centers either existing or under construction. But back in 2008, Ellison called cloud computing a ridiculous "fad," disdainfully declaring:23
I think it's ludicrous that cloud computing is taking over the world. […] We think it's very hard to make money in this thing. […] I'm not going to build the cloud, […] It's the Webvan of computing.24
This comparison with Webvan is all the more ironic now that Oracle has become a major player in cloud computing and perfectly illustrates Ellison's opportunistic about-face.
A strategic about-face, because 17 years later, one of its 162 data centers has reached a colossal capacity of 800 megawatts. To ensure AI computing capacity, Ellison wants to go beyond the gigawatt mark by installing a trio of small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs),25 following the example of Microsoft or Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's cloud. Ellison predicts that his data centers will be 30% more powerful than Musk's Gigafactory of compute.26 Not surprisingly, this drive to massively increase computing capacity for AI is in line with Oracle's strategy to become a leader in the field.
This expansion comes with a major offensive in the government sector:27 Oracle now offers cloud solutions designed specifically for government agencies, with security levels tailored to the most sensitive data—it has developed a complete ecosystem of classified cloud services for U.S. defense and intelligence:28 “Oracle Cloud Capabilities for US Defense and Intelligence” for military operations,29 “Classified Oracle Cloud for US National Security” for highly sensitive data,30 and “FedRAMP High-Authorized Oracle Cloud” for federal agencies.31
The US government has granted Oracle Cloud an authority to operate (ATO) for classified workloads, providing defense and intelligence organizations with a unique opportunity to leverage the latest commercial innovations and implement higher performance cloud capabilities with more favorable economics across classification levels. Oracle Cloud provides a highly secure and resilient cloud infrastructure that supports a range of classification levels around the globe. For the DOD, Oracle offers cloud capabilities to support Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) with Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Impact Level 6 (IL6) authorization.32
A concrete example of this collaboration is the deployment of AI solutions at the tactical edge for the U.S. Army, enabling data analysis in disrupted, intermittent, and limited impact (DDIL) environments.33
Let's not forget that this collaboration with the U.S. government goes back to Oracle's earliest days and has never stopped contributing to the company's commercial success. In fact, David Carey, a former CIA agent for 32 years (!!!) who joined Oracle as Vice President of Oracle Information Assurance (2001-2005), revealed that
[…] the United States government accounted for 23 percent of Oracle's multibillion-dollar licensing revenue last year and that he expected the federal side of the business to improve after 9/11.34
Carey's statement perfectly illustrates Oracle's historical dependence on U.S. government contracts.
This stranglehold on critical infrastructure extends beyond U.S. borders, as evidenced by the strategic contract recently signed with the U.K. government,35 giving Oracle control of the U.K.'s most sensitive national security data, a position that raises many questions about data sovereignty.
This strategic development will be reinforced with 6G—the next generation of mobile networks. Oracle, through its partner CloudServ Systems, is developing network slicing solutions for 6G,36 a technology that will allow the network to be virtually segmented according to the specific needs of users. This granular control of communications networks will enable new ways to monitor and manage information flows on a global scale by controlling exactly who uses the network, when, how, and for what purpose.37
This vision of granular control takes on an even more disturbing dimension when one considers that Ellison has long promoted the idea of a single national database. As early as 2001, in the post-9/11 context, he proposed the creation of digital national ID cards (in the U.S.),38 and in 2002, under the guise of national security and citizen failure, he went a step further by arguing for the creation of a centralized database,39 and in 2004, in response to a question from Jeffrey Rosen, stated without concession that this database would be Oracle's!40
In twenty years, do you think the global database is going to exist, and will it be run by Oracle?" I asked Larry Ellison. "I do think it will exist and I think it is going to be an Oracle.”41
In this light, Ellison's 6G network slicing is all the more worrisome—coupled with tools like Endeca (see the section on In-Q-Tel), it would optimize this surveillance by offering unprecedented control over information flows and individual behavior.
The Predictive Oracle: Ellison's Minority Report
It's easy to see how this massive increase in AI computing power is part of a more disturbing vision, clearly articulated by Ellison at the Oracle Financial Analyst Meeting 2024. This vision takes shape in particular through the "Public Security Big Data Graph Analysis Engine"—42 a predictive analysis system that combines surveillance data, social networks, and artificial intelligence. This system uses Endeca Information Discovery (EID, see next section on In-Q-Tel) technologies to simultaneously analyze physical surveillance data, social network feeds, and online behavior. Its use by the Chicago Police Department during the anti-NATO protests served as a showcase for its global commercialization,43 demonstrating its ability not only to monitor crowd movements in real time, but also to analyze sentiments expressed on social networks. In particular, the system can isolate and analyze negative content hour by hour ("only links that were very negative"), identify the authors of publications ("the individuals themselves are the authors"), and track the evolution of sentiment over a given period of time ("distribution of sentiment over this one particular hour").44 This capacity for predictive analysis of future emotions and social behavior foreshadows a system of mass surveillance.
This vision of social control through surveillance is nothing new for Ellison. Back in 2013, he publicly defended the NSA's mass surveillance program, stating that data collection was "essential" to democracy and that it was "great" that the NSA was collecting information.45 A position that foreshadowed his current vision of a society under constant AI surveillance.
No wonder Ellison declared that AI is ushering in a new era of mass surveillance and positioned Oracle as the technological backbone of these applications—fully justifying Oracle's investment in AI.46 A system, he said, that will rely on a vast network of smart cameras and drones with embedded AI to provide round-the-clock surveillance. This statement reflects his strategic vision: if Oracle's databases are indispensable for training AI,47 as he emphasized at the same meeting, it is precisely because they will enable unprecedented social control:48
Citizens will be on their best behavior because we're constantly recording and reporting […] There are so many opportunities to exploit AI.49
This dystopian vision is reminiscent of scenarios in movies like "Minority Report," where predictive surveillance allows criminals to be caught before they commit their crimes, or "The Circle," where total transparency is presented as a societal ideal.50 The big difference? What was science fiction a few years ago is slowly becoming reality, driven by players like Oracle and other tech giants closely or distantly associated with Ellison.
Considering that Ellison openly promotes mass surveillance through AI, this Orwellian vision raises deep concerns about respect for fundamental freedoms and the risk of widespread social control.
In-Q-Tel: When the CIA Shapes the Future of Disruptive Technologies
Founded in 1999, In-Q-Tel (IQT) is the CIA's investment fund whose mission is to identify and invest in emerging technologies of strategic interest to the U.S. intelligence community—specifically, mass control and social surveillance. Greg Pepus, former Director of Strategy for the Federal Government and Intelligence Community and IQT, clearly reveals the agency's strategy of influence:
We invest so we get a seat at the table with those companies early. We have a board observer position, and we are able to influence where it goes with its product. There is the aspect that at the end of the day, we want the technology, obviously.51
This strategy is not new: the CIA has played a crucial role in the emergence of many major technology companies.
Oracle is the most emblematic example, as the company owes its existence and name to the CIA's "Oracle Project."52 This historical link between Oracle and the CIA is key to understanding the deep connections between Ellison and the various players in today's technology ecosystem, from the founders of IQT-funded startups to the heads of companies working with the intelligence community. The presence of Oracle CEO Safra Catz on IQT's board of directors is a perfect illustration of this ongoing nexus between Oracle and the U.S. intelligence community.53
Today, IQT works with a wide range of government agencies, including the CIA, DIA, FBI, NGA, NRO, NSA, DHS, U.S. Cyber Command, and even extends into the British and Australian intelligence communities.54 Its influence extends far beyond the Anglo-Saxon sphere, as evidenced by its 2021 investment in Prophesee, a French startup specializing in neuromorphic vision that can be used in surveillance and monitoring applications.55 Prophesee's sensors, which mimic the workings of the human eye and brain, use AI to process only changes in a scene, rather than continuously capturing full images. This revolutionary, disruptive technology, which counts the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) among its partners,56 enables ultra-fast motion detection, real-time behavioral analysis, and, when combined with other technologies, could theoretically enable highly intrusive surveillance: motion detection through specific materials, analysis of physiological changes such as heart rate or breathing.
IQT's portfolio includes over 750 investments in key sectors including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, energy, hardware, life sciences, microelectronics and quantum.57 IQT has taken stakes in companies such as Palantir Technologies, Google, Facebook, and Niantic Labs (Pokémon Go),58 the latter of which has raised numerous questions about the massive collection of geolocated user data—to which we must add 38 IQT-backed companies spying on its users on Instagram and (formerly) Twitter, according to information published by The Intercept in 2016.59
In 2023, IQT launched the Government Platform Accelerator (GPA), a program designed to accelerate the commercialization of emerging technologies for national security.60 The GPA's vice president is none other than Oracle former Barry Leffew, underscoring Oracle's deep ties to the intelligence community. This initiative strengthens the connection between innovative startups and the specific needs of government agencies,61 providing partner agencies with valuable early access to emerging technologies and deep insight into upcoming innovations.
The close relationship between IQT and Oracle is also illustrated by the acquisition of Endeca in 2011.62 Founded in Cambridge in 1999, Endeca signed a strategic agreement with IQT in 2003 to develop data mining and integration solutions for government agencies.63 In particular, Endeca has made it possible to overcome the performance challenges associated with large volumes of raw data and to distribute search results quickly and securely—capabilities that are particularly valuable to intelligence agencies, enabling police, for example, to visualize data and explore social networks.
Ellison-Thiel: When Immortality Wannabes Serve the Military-Industrial Complex
The relationship between Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison perfectly illustrates the convergence of interests within the technological elite. These two figures share a common obsession: the quest for immortality, with massive investments in anti-aging research and biotechnologies.64
But above all, it's their vision of data control that brings them together.
In 2016, a tentative rapprochement between Oracle and Palantir Technologies Inc. took shape at a lunch orchestrated by Michael Ovitz, former Walt Disney Company executive, co-founder of the Creative Artists Agency (CAA), ex-advisor to Palantir, and featured in Jeffrey Epstein's Black Book.65 This meeting between Ellison and Ovitz, revealed in a court hearing by investor and former Palantir advisor Marc Abramowitz,66 was to discuss a possible acquisition of Palantir by Oracle.67 It's worth noting that the people involved in this attempted rapprochement share a sufficiently edifying past to raise legitimate questions about the true nature of their intentions and the potential implications of their collaboration in the sensitive area of government AI.
Although this merger did not materialize, it foreshadows the collaboration announced in 2024 between the two companies in the field of cloud and government AI,68 not limited to the US, as well as in the entrepreneurial universe. This alliance confirms the determination of both companies to strengthen their grip on sensitive technological infrastructures serving the military-industrial complex.
The Oracle/Palantir alliance is part of a long tradition of collaboration with the intelligence community. While Palantir has been the subject of revelations about its alleged ties to the NSA's PRISM program,69 Oracle has maintained close ties to federal agencies since the 1970s. This proximity to the intelligence community has taken on an even more significant dimension since the October 2023 revelations that Thiel served as an FBI informant beginning in 2021, working specifically with FBI agent and whistleblower Johnathan Buma, who specialized in investigations of political corruption and foreign influence.70 These multiple connections between tech giants and intelligence agencies form an increasingly dense network of influence and surveillance.
It should be noted that Palantir has been accredited at impact level 6 (IL6) since 2022.71
Oracle-AWS: a Strategic Alliance under the Aegis of the Intelligence Community
Like Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos shares an obsession with immortality. The founder of Amazon has invested heavily in Altos Labs, a biotech startup that aims to rejuvenate human cells to extend life span.72 This shared quest for immortality is not the only point of convergence between these tech titans.
The unexpected alliance between Oracle and Amazon's cloud business, Amazon Web Services (AWS), in 2023 adds a new dimension to this picture. After years of adversarial relations,73 the two cloud computing giants have announced a strategic partnership that will enable the integration of Oracle databases into AWS infrastructure with the Oracle project Database@AWS.74 This collaboration takes on a special dimension when we consider that AWS hosts the data of eighteen U.S. intelligence agencies via its "Secret Region" created in 2017—an isolated cloud environment specifically designed to manage workloads classified up to Secret level.75 AWS was the first tech company to be accredited at Impact Level 6 (IL6), starting in 2017.76 This is all the more worrying given that in 2017 a massive leak of US Department of Defense (DoD) civilian internet surveillance data was discovered on Amazon S3 servers.77
The convergence of these major cloud players, all tied to the intelligence community, outlines a worrying concentration of control over sensitive government data.
Ellison-OpenAI: Oracle reaches Stargate
Oracle's stranglehold on artificial intelligence now extends to OpenAI, whose main investor is Microsoft—and whose co-founder was Elon Musk (2015-2018).78 Oracle, the database giant, will provide its computing power to train OpenAI's AI models, complementing Microsoft Azure.79
This strategic alliance illustrates Ellison's desire to control critical AI infrastructures and positions Oracle as a key player in the race for technological dominance. To meet this colossal demand, Oracle is preparing to lease a data center in Abilene, Texas, from Crusoe, a company specializing in cryptomining and AI. This data center, part of a $3.4 billion project, could house up to 100,000 GPUs and will be used by Oracle to serve OpenAI via Microsoft.80
This strategic location foreshadowed a far more ambitious collaboration: the Stargate project (discussed in Chapter II), a colossal $500 billion investment announced by Donald Trump that brings together OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank.81 This strategic alliance, which OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says "will be the most important project of this era," marks a new stage in the concentration of technological power in the hands of a limited elite.
Oracle-Google: A Predictable Alliance Between Two CIA Foals
Google's origins are closely linked to the American intelligence services. In 1994—the year the Highland Forum was created under the aegis of the Pentagon, ONA and DARPA—82 two Stanford Ph.D. students, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, developed the first automated application for crawling and ranking web pages, which would become the heart of the Google search engine. This work was funded by the Digital Library Initiative (DLI), a multi-agency program involving the National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA, and DARPA, and later by Massive Digital Data Systems (MDDS).83
The MDDS initiative has awarded fifteen research contracts. These contracts are being executed through the line organisations, such as as NSA and CIA. Specific topics being addressed by the research include data mining, data warehousing and heterogeneous database integration, real-time transaction processing in a heterogeneous environment, quality of service management in multimedia databases, indexing multimedia data, scalable architectures, and geographic information systems. The MDDS Team is also coordinating the research with other government agencies by conducting technology exchange meetings.84
In 2006, former CIA undercover agent Robert David Steele testified to the ongoing collaboration between the CIA and Google.85 This became even more apparent in 2010 with the joint investment by Google and IQT in the cybersecurity company Recorded Future, which was founded in 2007 with the mission of monitoring the Web—i.e., collecting, processing, analyzing, and disseminating threat information.86
If you think this is a digression, don't! The point is to show clearly that Google and Oracle have a common origin: the CIA—it shaped them both by influencing their leaders.
Although Ellison referred to Google as "the devil" in a 2013 interview following a dispute over Android's use of Java, the adage "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" makes perfect sense in this case. Their common enemy? Undeniably, people and their right to privacy! Under the guise of improving data access and sharing without data transfer fees between Oracle/Google Cloud services with the "Oracle Database@Google Cloud" offering, these two giants of CIA programs are working hand in hand to guarantee the preservation and control of data, some of which is personal, as evidenced by their recent multi-cloud collaboration announced in June 2024.87 In addition, this new orffre will allow Oracle customers to connect their data to Google's AI services.
This strategic alliance between Oracle and Google—which has its roots in CIA programs—raises legitimate privacy concerns. Indeed, the combination of Google's massive data collection capabilities (search, location, email) with Oracle's powerful predictive analytics capabilities, for example via Endeca, could enable unprecedented behavioral profiling. This concern is all the more valid given that the collaboration explicitly targets sensitive sectors such as finance, healthcare, retail, and industry—areas rich in personal and confidential data. The "Oracle Database@Google Cloud" offering could, over time, facilitate the creation of a social surveillance and control system of alarming proportions. This hypothesis can't be ruled out—and deserves special attention from defenders of individual liberties. In fact, while both companies communicate about the virtuous guarantee of personal data protection, let's not forget that Ellison has been promoting data centralization for more than twenty years and claims the potential of his databases for AI training, which Google could benefit from as part of this new offering.The guarantee of data confidentiality therefore seems to be designed more to protect against hackers than to protect the users of the holders of this information—who, moreover, are obliged to hand over data at the request of intelligence agencies!
Oracle and the Prophet: a Strategic Alliance in the Name of AI
The collaboration between Oracle and Elon Musk takes on a special dimension with the training of Grok 1 and Grok 1.5 in Oracle's cloud environment, the "Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Supercluster."88 This alliance allows Ellison to realize his vision by using his databases, which he considers the best sources for AI training. This partnership is all the more significant in that Ellison is a shareholder in X through his foundation, creating a situation where X's success directly benefits Ellison. For the development of Grok 2, xAI chose to build its own massive GPU cluster,89 the Colossus project in Memphis, although sources indicate that in September 2024, Musk and Ellison dined with Jensen Huang, the head of Nvidia, to obtain more GPUs.90
This convergence of interests goes beyond social networking: Oracle and SpaceX are jointly developing an AI-powered mapping application that is officially aimed at the agricultural sector. However, the tool is primarily designed for government use, producing detailed maps of national farmland, including comprehensive information on crop types and cultivation methods.
The AI tool being developed is designed primarily for governmental use. It will produce detailed maps of countries’ farmlands, providing comprehensive information about crop types and cultivation methods.91
An application that could be used for territorial surveillance and control under the guise of agricultural innovation.
The Oracle-Musk partnership now extends to space. Oracle just announced a strategic alliance with Starlink to integrate satellite connectivity into its Enterprise Communications Platform (ECP).
This agreement will allow Oracle to offer cloud services in previously inaccessible areas, strengthening its grip on global communications infrastructures.92
More importantly, this strategic alliance takes a disturbing turn with Donald Trump's appointment of Elon Musk to head the "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE)—93 which Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer denounces as an unelected shadow government leading a hostile takeover of the federal government.94 This appointment coincides with the signing of an executive order aimed at "strengthening American leadership in AI" by removing "barriers to American innovation in AI" put in place by the Biden administration.95 This convergence of political and technological power is also illustrated by the Stargate project.
The Oracle of Jerusalem
The privileged relationship between Ellison and Benjamin Netanyahu perfectly illustrates the intertwining of technology and politics at the highest levels. In September 2021, during a stay on his island of Lanai in Hawaii, Ellison reportedly offered Netanyahu a lucrative position on Oracle's board of directors, worth between $450,000 and $800,000 per year.96 An offer the former prime minister could not accept due to Knesset rules prohibiting its members from receiving outside compensation.97
After nine years of presence in Israel, Oracle strengthened its position in 2005 with a strategic agreement negotiated by Catz and others: the creation of a technological center of excellence to support start-ups and producers of software solutions, through cooperation between the state and Oracle.98 The relationship between Oracle and Israel was consolidated in 2021, when Netanyahu, now prime minister again, met with Catz to discuss expanding the company's investments in Israel.
Oracle's ties to Israel were consolidated in 2021, when Netanyahu, now prime minister again, met with Catz to discuss the expansion of the company's investments in Israel: the installation of an underground data center in Jerusalem. Located 50 meters underground (four stories) in one of the city's technology parks, the data center will be inaugurated in October 2021 as part of the Nimbus—99 project, an undeniable demonstration of Oracle's strategic commitment to Israel, the first international cloud provider to establish operations in the country. A second data center is planned, further strengthening Oracle's position as Israel's preferred technology partner.100
Moreover, the appointment of Eran Feigenbaum as head of Oracle Israel is revealing: this former head of security for Google Enterprise illustrates the circulation of tech elites between the giants of digital surveillance.101 A strategic appointment that reinforces Oracle's control over the data hosted in its Jerusalem digital bunker, in the service of American-Israeli interests.
If data control is the cornerstone of the Oracle empire, it's largely because the company was built as a pillar of the American military-industrial complex under the aegis of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). Behind the façade of a success story lies a darker reality: that of a company born out of a secret CIA project that has become one of the main surveillance tools of the DNI and his 17 intelligence agencies. This grip is clearly confirmed in the field of health, where it takes on a disturbingly intimate dimension. For behind the datafication of populations and health surveillance lies a more personal quest: that of immortality. It's an ambition that Ellison shares with other tech titans, and one that deserves a closer look in the next section, "The Oracle: The Prophet of Immortality."102
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If you are part of the entertainment industry, and are working on a project that deals with the CIA, the Agency may be able to help you. We are in a position to give greater authenticity to scripts, stories, and other products in development. […] Looking for inspiration for a new film or book? Our Entertainment Industry Liaison offers recommendations here. Check back often for his new picks.
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[Sebastian Kaempf:] Through successful Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, we obtained over 60,000 internal Pentagon and CIA documents which – for the first time – allows us to understand the sheer scale and scope of their involvement in the world’s largest entertainment industry,” Dr Kaempf said.
And the documentary of the same name by Roger Stahl (2022), available at: Rumble (with VPN from Europe) or spyculture.com.
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In particular, Ellison donated $16.5 million for a training campus for the IDF's mixed infantry units. Timesofisrael.com. “Record $53.8 million raised for IDF soldiers at Beverly Hills gala,” November 5, 2017. Available at: timesofisrael.com (archive).
Remember: Zionism is a political ideology that has nothing to do with Judaism, which is a matter of faith.
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Webvan was an online grocery retailer founded during the Internet bubble of the 1990s. It became a symbol of the failure of startups of that era, going bankrupt in 2001 after burning through more than $800 million in investment. By comparing cloud computing to Webvan, Ellison was referring to what he saw as a fad doomed to fail, much like the dot-com companies that went bust when the dot-com bubble burst.
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Oracle enables an all-domain advantage for the US Department of Defense (DoD) with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure available at all DoD classification levels, providing support to Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) customers for their full technology portfolio. Oracle US Defense Cloud supports DoD agencies and contractor workloads with Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Impact Level 5 (IL5) authorization. Oracle’s air-gapped classified regions are DISA IL6–authorized cloud environments and can support US Secret and Top Secret mission-critical workloads. With Oracle’s help, DoD Joint Forces can decisively maneuver and mobilize air, land, sea, and cyber capabilities in response to adversaries.
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Oracle National Security Regions (ONSRs) are the Oracle Cloud solution for customers who need a proven cloud platform for classified, mission-critical workloads that provides high performance and enhanced security at a competitive price. Meeting the highest level of US government classification standards, ONSRs are designed for the US Defense Department and Intelligence Community. ONSR regions support and accelerate delivery of national security workloads at the Secret and Top Secret levels. Completely isolated from the internet, these air-gapped regions securely provide IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and marketplace services to enable mission owners to secure classified data, remove data silos, and innovate.
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IL6 most commonly applies to data and systems that involve classified information, such as those related to intelligence, military operations, and other sensitive government activities.
Authority to Operate (ATO) is a specific authorization issued by the U.S. government that allows an information system to operate within the federal environment. This authorization is mandatory for state agencies, federal institutions, intelligence agencies, and contractors working with these entities.
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He then gives us a demo of how they used the EID engine to help the Chicago police monitor social traffic around the Nato summit, by running a realtime social application powered by Salience that the police could watch all weekend.
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In February 2025, Oracle databases are still number one, ahead of MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MongoSQL. Ranking available at: db-engines (archive).
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According to Ellison, while technology leaders are moving away from this outdated sector, databases remain essential for AI training. It is this historical expertise that will enable Oracle to outperform its competitors.
Ibid., Vigliarolo.
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For “Q” meaning:
The Q is just the play on the character Q who provides all of the cool gadgets in the James Bond movies. [The Wall St. Journal did describe In-Q-Tel "as outside the box as government gets."]
Read also: Corbett. “Meet In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s Venture Capital Firm (Preview).” Corbett Report, October 9, 2011. Available at: corbettreport.com (archive).
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IQT’s unique approach pairing high-tech problem solvers with government challenges has produced countless WASful solutions for the CIA; DIA; FBI; NGA; NRO; NSA; DHS (including CBP and other DHS components); U.S. Cyber Command; the Office of Strategic Capital (OSC); and the U.K. and Australian national intelligence communities. We recently welcomed the Office of Naval Research (ONR), U.S. Central Command, and U.S. Space Force as new government partners and look forward to supporting their missions too.
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This startup is also (and notably) funded by the Chinese fund Sinovation Ventures and the Saudi diversified growth fund Prosperity7 Ventures, illustrating the complexity of networks of influence in the field of disruptive technologies.
Learn more about Prophesee and Prosperity7 Ventures.
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L'approche de Prophesee constitue un changement fondamental par rapport aux méthodes des caméras traditionnelles. En utilisant des techniques neuromorphiques pour imiter le fonctionnement du cerveau et de l'œil humains, la caméra événementielle de Prophesee réduit drastiquement la quantité de données nécessaires pour capturer l'information. […] Les capteurs et algorithmes Metavision® brevetés de Prophesee imitent le fonctionnement de l'œil et du cerveau humains pour améliorer considérablement l'efficacité dans des domaines tels que les véhicules autonomes, l'automatisation industrielle, l'IdO [Internet des Objects), la sécurité et la surveillance, et la Réalité virtuelle / augmentée.
Trans.: Prophesee's approach represents a fundamental departure from traditional camera methods. By using neuromorphic techniques to mimic the workings of the human brain and eye, Prophesee's event-driven camera drastically reduces the amount of data needed to capture information. [Prophesee's patented Metavision® sensors and algorithms mimic the functioning of the human eye and brain to dramatically improve efficiency in areas such as autonomous vehicles, industrial automation, IoT [Internet of Things], security and surveillance, and virtual/augmented reality.
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See note 51:
[Greg Pepus, former director of federal and intelligence community strategy” and IQT:] What's nice about Endeca is that with the directed search engine and all of its underlying analytics, it can really deliver a lot of very useful information in ways that a normal search engine could never do.
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More information about Michael S. Ovitz at LittleSis. Testimony about the Epstein/Ovitz relationship available on the Epstein Black Book (archive).
Link between Ovitz and Palantir: "Unlocking secrets, if not its own value.” The New York Times, January 6, 2014. Available at: nytimes.com (archive).
Walt Disney. From 1940 until his death in 1966, he was a secret informant for the Los Angeles office of the FBI. His relationship with J. Edgar Hoover began in 1936 against the backdrop of Hollywood blacklists and anti-Communist hysteria. His 570-pages FBI file reveals a man very different from the public image of Mickey Mouse's creator. Available at: fbi.gov (archive). The relationship between Walt Disney and the FBI mirrors the CIA's influence in Hollywood and the film world in general.
Disney had close ties to Wernher von Braun, a former scientist in the Nazi space program; he was one of the Nazis rescued by the CIA during Operation Paperclip. A naturalized American, he held a key position at NASA, having previously worked for the U.S. Army and served as director of the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency. Both have worked on the Tomorrowland series and other Disney films.
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Further information about Oracle Database@AWS available at: Oracle and AWS.
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[…] Elon propose that we spin into Tesla. We would have a billion dollar budget right away and it would increase exponentially from there.
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The Highland Forum, founded by Richard O'Neill, played a crucial role in the emergence of the technologies that would become Google. As O'Neill himself explains:
[…] we’re looking at security and conflict in an information age. The real result of that first set of Highlands meetings ([…]) out in Santa Fe, New Mexico) was to develop an initial set of operating concepts for conflict: how the United States would operate in an information age setting. The term “information warfare” came out of that set of meetings and the writings that they spurred on information operations and a variety of things.
Quote from: O’Neill, Richard P. “The Highlands Forum Process.” In Seminar on Intelligence, Command, and Control. Cambridge MA: Harvard University, 2001. Available at: havard.edu (archive).
In a document co-authored by Sergey Brin, Rajeev Motwani, Lawrence Page, and Terry Winograd explaining the development process of the Google search engine, the authors state in a footnote:
This project is supported by NSF Cooperative Agreement IRI-9411306. Funding for this cooperative agreement is also provided by DARPA and NASA, and by Interval Research, and the industrial partners of the Stanford Digital Libraries Project.
Quote from: IEEE. “What can you do with a Web in your Pocket?,” 1998. Available at: Internet Archive.
In a document tracing the creation of Google, Google co-founders Brin and Page thank the institutions that supported their project:
The research described here was conducted as part of the Stanford Integrated Digital Library Project, supported by the National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement IRI–9411306. Funding for this cooperative agreement is also provided by DARPA and NASA, and by Interval Research, and the industrial partners of the Stanford Digital Libraries Project.
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Total funding of $4,516,573 under cooperation agreement “IRI-9411306” (1994-1998) available at: NSF (archive).
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Bhavani Thuraisingham, who has worked for Honeywell, MITRE (a federal research center), NSF, and academia, first reveals that Brin was partially funded by a joint CIA-NSA program:
I remember visiting Stanford with Dr. Rick Steinheiser from the Intelligence Community and Mr. Brin would rush in on roller blades, give his presentation and rush out. In fact the last time we met in September 1998, Mr. Brin demonstrated to us his search engine which became Google soon after.
That very month, Brin and Page officially launched Google. Two years later, Thuraisingham reversed her original version, claiming that Google was not created by the CIA—a turnaround made all the more suspicious by the fact that, given her position and professional background, it's impossible for her not to know this information.
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Her bio: utdallas.edu. “Bhavani Thuraisingham,” n.d. Available at: utdallas.edu (archive). Last accessed February 5, 2025.
About DLI, founded in 1993: Griffin, Stephen M. “NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative. A Program Manager’s Perspective.” D-Lib Magazine, 1998. Available at: Internet Archive.
The Digital Libraries Initiative (DLI) was the result of a community-based process which began in the late 1980s with informal discussions between researchers and agency program managers. These discussions progressed to planning workshops designed to develop research values and agendas and culminated in the National Science Foundation (NSF)/ Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)/National Aero-nautics and Space Administration (NASA) Research in Digital Libraries Initiative announced in late 1993.
See previous note, Thuraisingham 2013, 3.
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Company website: Recorded Future.
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The company was acquired in 2019 by Insight Partners, then in 2024 by MasterCard.
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Both companies will jointly go-to-market with Oracle Database@Google Cloud, benefitting enterprises globally and across multiple industries, including financial services, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and more.
Oracle.com. “Oracle and Google Cloud Expand Regional Availability and Add Powerful New Capabilities to Oracle Database@Google Cloud,” January 30, 2025. Available at: oracle.com (archive).
See note 41, from: 38:43.
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Nvidia controls 80% of the AI chip market, making it an essential partner.
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if you want to know how an unelected Shadow government operates look no further than Doge.
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Revokes the Biden AI Executive Order which hampered the private sector’s ability to innovate in AI by imposing government control over AI development and deployment.
[…] President Trump signed the first-ever Executive Order on AI in 2019 recognizing the paramount importance of American AI leadership to the economic and national security of the United States.
[…] President Trump also took executive action in 2020 to establish the first-ever guidance for Federal agency adoption of AI to more effectively deliver services to the American people and foster public trust in this critical technology.
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See previous note.
Feigenbaum previously held the position of director of information systems security (DSSI) for Oracle Cloud. Source: Feigenbaum, Eran. "Securing the Oracle Cloud." Oracle Blogs, May 29, 2019. Available at: blogs.oracle.com.
Far from being an anecdote about his duties, Feigenbaum leads a double life as a "mentalist" (illusionist specializing in mental manipulation) under the stage name Eran Raven, most notably appearing on the show "America's Got Talent." This duality between expert on sensitive data and professional manipulator raises legitimate questions about the profile of the technical elites entrusted with managing our most sensitive data.
Blogs.oracle.com. “Eran Feigenbaum,” n.d. Available at: blogs.oracle.com. Last accessed January 31, 2025.
Feigenbaum, Eran. "Bio." Eran Raven (blog), n.d. Available at: eranraven.co (archive). Last accessed January 31, 2025.
See also a recent article on Ellison: Westenra, Robin. “Meet Larry Ellison, leader of the next mRNA revolution.” Seemorerocks, January 22, 2025. Available at: seemorerocks (archive).
On this investigation paper, read : Delaine, Lena. “AI Confession: Between Dominant Narrative and Human Protection.” Lena Delaine, February 4, 2025. Available at: lenadelaine.
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