How the CIA made Google

I'm trying to get a sense if the author is serious, or whether this is part of his "Sci Fi Thriller" novel he's working on. We may as well title this "How the military made technology X" since one can trace funding or university research programs for pretty much every area to some kind of government grants.

It's amazing how the government can plan 20 years out to make the world's most popular web service, just so they can tap the information on it, but they can't plan or predict well enough to a) recognize the fall of the USSR b) stop the 9/11 attacks c) prevent the large scale clusterfuck going on in the world right now.