Pokémon GO is an augmented-reality game developed by Niantic incorporated for mobile devices. Players have to wander around in the real world  in order to move their avatar in the game. In order to find Pokemon to capture the player must wander around their neighborhood to find patches of grass patches. Some of those grass patches will have pokemon in them. Different Pokémon live in different real world environments; for example, water-type Pokémon are found near actual bodies of water.

When a player encounters a Pokémon, they may view it in either Augmented Reality mode or with a pre-rendered background. AR mode utilizes the camera on the player's mobile device to display an image of a Pokémon as though it were in the real world.[10] Players can also take pictures of the Pokémon using an in-game camera that they encounter both with and without the AR mode activated.[9]

Pokemon GO is developed by Niantic, which first produced a similar game called produced Ingriss. Ingress had the same basic premise of going around to places in the real world in order to gain positive feedback. Ingress required players to travel in the real world along preset routes and take pictures of “objectives”

Niantic was founded by John Hanke who is the former CEO of  Keyhole Inc, a Software development company that specializes in geospatial data visualization. Keyhole also produced Earth Viewer which eventually became Google Earth. Niantic Labs started off as an internal startup of Google before being let loose as an independent entity in 2015. This was part of Google’s restructuring as Alphabet inc.

There are several very concerning points here. The first is that in spook circles,  the term alphabet agencies or alphabet soup refers to the collection of acronym agencies that are part of or created by the United States government. These agencies include the FBI, CIA, NSA, and so on. The term given to a front company created by an intelligence agency is usually...alphabet inc. This is a strange name for a company indeed.

The second disconcerting point is the way Pokemon Go came about. In the case of this game, Google pitched the idea to Nintendo and The Pokemon Company, not the other way around. The fact that a brand as flagship as Pokemon would be getting developed by a no name studio like Niantic, which has nothing game related to show for itself besides a mediocre game and no successful titles is pretty surprising. With so many big name, successful publishers out there, why Nintendo would agree to work with this company seems bizarre.

Then when you look at how Niantic came about things get weirder.

Niantics Founder and the man who is in charge of Niantics is named John Hanke. John was the CEO of Keyhole, inc. The name keyhole is a reference to the Keyhole line of spy satellites the CIA used during the cold war.

Keyhole gets even more interesting. Not only did they develop what would become Google maps and google earth, but they also got the majority of their intial funding from In-Q-Tel. formerly Peleus and known as In-Q-It, is an American not-for-profit venture capital firm based in Arlington, Virginia. It invests in high-tech companies for the sole purpose of keeping the Central Intelligence Agency, and other intelligence agencies, equipped with the latest in information technology in support of United States intelligence capability


IQT has funded and has ties to many  interesting companies including Stratify, Which organizes mass data, Mohomine, Which organizes mass data, Palantir Technologies, which does data integration, Spotfire, which visualizes data analytics, Fetch Technologies, Which manages internet data, Initiate Systems, which has multiple real-time multiple database software, Geosemble, Unstructured data analytic and many more companies. IQT also gave Facebook the majority of their startup money.

There's a trend among these companies that revolves around mass-data storage and organization.

Former CIA director George Tenet said regarding In-Q-Tel “This ... collaboration ... enabled CIA to take advantage of the technology that Las Vegas uses to identify corrupt card players and apply it to link analysis for terrorists [cf. the parallel data-mining effort by the SOCOM-DIA operation Able Danger ], and to adapt the technology that online booksellers use and convert it to scour millions of pages of documents looking for unexpected results.”


As of August 2006, In-Q-Tel had invested over $150 Million USD in over 90 companies and delivered 130 technology solutions to the intelligence community. In 2005 it was said to be funded with about $37 Million USD yearly from the CIA.


So how does Pokemon GO tie into In-Q-Tel and Data-mining? Pokemon GO utilizes taking geotagged video and pictures. This data while used for gameplay, can and is  relayed to  Niantic. Remember this company was funded by the CIA, and created from a companythat specializes in mass-data collection software. Do you really think this is a coincidence?
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But its just a harmess game right?