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 recognition, high-speed networking, and online search.
Bezos started Amazon in the garage of his Bellevue, Washington home, a year before Gise passed away in 1995.
The owner of The Black Vault, a website that makes declassified government data available through FOIA requests, John Greenewald Jr., wrote on X that he pursued Gise's "FBI file, but found out if there was one, it has been destroyed."
🚨L.P. Gise was Jeff Bezos' grandfather. In the late '50s, he helped found what would become DARPA. In the early-mid '60s, he headed the AEC's 7 state, 26,000 employee operation.
I went after his FBI file, but found out if there was one, it has been destroyed.#FOIA pic.twitter.com/RdIlpsx3XB
