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SpaceX was founded in 2002 with help of a CIA agent named Mike Griffin ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M

SpaceX was founded in 2002 with help of a CIA agent named Mike Griffin ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career ) who funneled them funding (lots of citations at end of https://archive.ph/D2zIG https://archive.ph/D2zIG ). Griffin worked for In-Q-Tel and also was the Deputy of Technology for the Strategic Defense Initiative, later started the Space Development Agency (SDA) which is to become Trump's SDI in 2025. It was never about Mars. Look into the Mars Society leadership, they were military / Strategic Defense Initiative people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career#:~:t https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career#:~:t... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Zubrin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Zubrin

mlindner 2y ago
Oh lord this made up story again. Your entire posting history is about this. There's no basis in reality for any of it. You're even citing a grok post from an AI bot as proof. Griffin was not a CIA agent and was not founded with Griffin's support. Griffin was asked to join the company but he refused. Griffin had no part in getting any funding to SpaceX. Your link is him lying (backed up by zero other sources) to raise his own status and rewrite history in his own favor (he's been on the talk circuit extensively after leaving government). Mars Society is absolutely about Mars.
panick21_ 2y ago
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