In the summer of 1977, three men pooled $2,000 and started a company in Santa Clara. Their first real client was the Central Intelligence Agency. That’s not a conspiracy theory but documented fact that’s been hiding in plain sight for nearly fifty years.
This episode traces Oracle’s origin from a CIA contract called “Oracle” to a company that named itself after the project and then spent the next decade building the database technology that would eventually power the global surveillance infrastructure.
In this episode:
- The CIA’s Project Oracle and the $50,000 contract that started everything
- How relational databases changed what surveillance could do
- Bob Miner, Ed Oates, and the technical genius behind the curtain
- The “Version 2” lie and why Oracle’s first product was called Version 2
- Early Pentagon contracts and the pattern that would define the company
Read the full investigation with sources: [theredstringwire.com]
