# Peter Thiel

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*U.S. venture capitalist; co-founder of Palantir Technologies; subject of a biographical assessment commissioned from John Kiriakou by an unnamed interest group alongside Palantir CEO Alex Karp.*

- **Role:** Co-founder, [Palantir Technologies](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/palantir)
- **Kiriakou's framing:** *'Exactly the kind of guys that the CIA would want to be doing business with. … driven by profit. And they'll do as they're told and they'll keep their mouth shut.'*

**Peter Thiel** is a U.S. venture capitalist and a co-founder of [Palantir Technologies](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/palantir), the company that received its first seed funding from the [Central Intelligence Agency](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/cia)'s [In-Q-Tel](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/in-q-tel) venture-capital arm and that now operates as one of the largest U.S. national-security contractors.[1]

## Kiriakou's biographical mockup

[John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou) was at one point hired by an unnamed interest group to produce biographical assessments of Thiel and his Palantir co-founder [Alex Karp](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/alex-karp). The shared characterization:

> They're exactly the kind of guys that the CIA would want to be doing business with. They're conservatives. They are religious. They are extremely patriotic but driven by profit. And they'll do as they're told and they'll keep their mouth shut.[1]

## See also

- [Palantir Technologies](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/palantir)
- [Alex Karp](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/alex-karp)

## Sources

1. CIA Spy Explains 'Vault 7' (2025-11-19), at 49:31. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERXIM8oTMxM&t=2971s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-11-19-julian-dorey-vault-7/

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