Isn't that a bit of a jump, and specifically called out in the quartz article as not true?

"Did the CIA directly fund the work of Brin and Page, and therefore create Google? No."

You should probably quote the article title too:

"Google’s true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance"

The gist I got from skimming it is that the CIA didn't "directly" fund them because that's handled by a differwnt group acting in their interest.

aka Google was _not_ founded by the CIA