The same could be said about Oracle though, that they received the benfits of early investment by the CIA.
However scary Oracle license auditors are though, no one conflates them with the CIA.
We're now in an era where people are actively trying to compare a contractor doing some type of IT support, to a company.
Palantir is de-facto military contractor and the Palantir CEO knows it.
"“Our product is used, on occasion, to kill people,” Karp said in an interview with news website Axios in 2020."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChwSTuDa9RY
https://www.sciencefocus.com/future-technology/inside-palant...