
A former CIA agent’s Virginia company has earned nearly $1 million in contracts with the Broadcasting Board of Governors, or BBG, since November 2011, records show.
That would put the firm, Applied Memetics, in the top spot in earnings in the category of «independent artists, writers and performers.» (See «18 million to unnamed foreign contractors«).
Dan Gabriel, a former covert action officer who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, is the founding partner and CEO of Applied Memetics in Arlington, Va. I wrote about Gabriel in November 2012 (See «Ex-CIA agent leads new team of journalists in Cuba«) and in December 2012 (See «More work for ex-CIA agent«).
Gabriel has impressive credentials. His LinkedIn profile states:
Mr. Gabriel helped pioneer the use of social media in war-fighting and political conflict, and he was an early advocate for incorporating social media metrics into predictive intelligence and risk analysis. He is a subject matter expert and original researcher of interactive digital media strategies, social network analysis, international media research, text analytics, latent semantic indexing, strategic planning techniques, operational and organizational design, and complex system dynamics.
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