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