national security agencies: the Navy, the State Department and the BBG. I was able to show that despite its radical anti-government cred, Tor was almost 100% funded by three U.S. By following the money, I discovered that Tor was not grassroots. By then I had already spent a couple of years doing extensive reporting on Tor’s deeply conflicted ties to the regime change wing of the U.S. In the process of writing my book Surveillance Valley, I was able to obtain via FOIA roughly 2,500 pages of correspondence - including strategy sessions and contracts and budgets and status updates - between the Tor Project and its main funder, a CIA spinoff now known as the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), an agency that oversees America’s foreign broadcasting operations like Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Europe. The Tor Project, a private non-profit that underpins the dark web and enjoys cult status among privacy activists, is almost 100% funded by the US government.
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