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[–]BravoVictor 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm really getting tired of every company being labeled a "CIA front". Not saying it's incorrect, but what's the standard? How is that determined? The CIA doesn't exactly give companies a "your a front for the CIA" public stamp of approval.

If it's just any US-based company that heeds to US government foreign policy demands, then, yeah. That's probably most US companies because no company wants to be on the bad side of the US government even if they dislike government policy.

Reminds me a lot of how some people call any Russian-based company a "front for Putin". Russia has millions of people, and as authoritarian as the Russian government might be, they no more control every little action every company within Russia as the US does, even if they do exert a lot of influence over them, like the US does with theirs.