John Greenewald Jr., the owner of The Black Vault, mentioned in a tweet that Jeff Bezos' grandfather was a co-founder of DARPA, raising questions about DARPA's role in creating Amazon.

Unknown to most people, Lawrence Preston Gise, the grandfather of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, was involved in the creation of the Pentagon's top-secret Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA, later renamed DARPA) in 1958. Many years later, DARPA created the internet and sparked innovations in speech recogn...