Then in 2007, my system spotted an impending crash in the real estate and stock markets.
I presented my findings to Treasury officials. But they ignored my warnings. We all know what happened next.
We were ready at that point to build a more robust version of this for the CIA and sought additional funding.
But the CIA decided not to move forward with the project mainly for political reasons.
They were worried about possible adverse headlines if it were made to appear that the intelligence community was trolling through citizens’ personal trading records.
That was never true; we used open-source price feeds to get initial leads and then operated through the judicial system after that. But the publicity risk was there and the CIA did not want to take a chance.
After 2008, I moved on to other projects, but I never lost sight of the potential predictive power that we had discovered in Project Prophesy.
I learned that the techniques I developed were useful far beyond the realm of counterterrorism. They could be used for any kind of geopolitical threats carried out in capital markets.
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