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Spotlight UNITED STATES Issue dated 22/02/2017

Thiel carves niche in US intelligence imagery

Peter Thiel speaks on the fourth day of the 2016 RNC - Wikimedia Commons

The founder of Paypal and Palantir, Silicon Valley’s only unconditional Donald Trump supporter, is bidding to become the go-to imagery contractor. [...]

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