The Secret History of Silicon Valley

How Stanford the CIA/NSA Built the Valley We Know Today

How much does an average Googler know about the history of the place
he works in? Silicon Valley.
Come and test your knowledge. I have seen this talk and I assure you -
even seasoned Silicon Valley
veterans will find this story interesting. Silicon Valley entrepreneur
Steve Blank will talk about how
World War II set the stage for the creation and explosive growth of
Silicon Valley, and the role of
Frederick Terman and Stanford in working with government agencies
(including the CIA and the
National Security Agency) to set up companies in this area that
sparked the creation of hundreds
of other enterprises.

Speaker: Steve Blank
Steve Blank spent nearly 30 years as founder and executive of high
tech companies in Silicon Valley,
most recently the enterprise software firm E.piphany. He has been
involved in or co-founded eight
Silicon Valley startups, ranging from semiconductors to video games,
and personal computers to
supercomputers. He teaches entrepreneurship at U.C. Berkeley’s Haas
School of Business,
Columbia University and Stanford’s Graduate School of Engineering.

56 min 31 sec

CIA Drug Ops – (Unaired Documentary)

Understanding the mentality and culture within the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other government entities that have inflicted … all » catastrophic harm throughout the world, with tragic consequences upon the men, women, and families of the United States. Two of the most prominent areas in which the CIA’s conduct has had catastrophic consequences for Americans have been in its 50-year history of drug smuggling into the United States, and its role in generating hatred for the United States throughout the world. Most of the current media and public attention is focused on the matter of terrorism. However, the harm to national security, the harm to the people of the United States from then arrogant and corrupt war on drugs by America’s “leaders” constitutes a greater threat, and the source of far greater harm to the people, than the threat of terrorism. The terrorism threat has been a fortuitous event for the people in key government positions that were close to being exposed for their direct or cover-up involvement in drug smuggling by people acting under cover of government positions. Those people for whom all hope is lost, sentenced to life in prison or long prison terms, can get relief if enough good people would become aware of the evidence detailed in this and related Internet sites, in lawsuits, and in print books.

1 hr 46 min 24 sec