@49b604ac As I understand it, he *volunteered* for the *advisory board* of Wickr. To say he was on "the board" suggests the board of directors, which is misleading. In either case, board positions are generally not particularly lucrative, they're part-time jobs that confer a small salary.  If he were "CIA funded",

A) they could have just given him money off the books, no need to create a public link,

B) volunteer advisory board positions are possibly the worst route for a sinecure 

 @49b604ac Finally, if you're worried about the USA's military apparatus funding things involved in network communications infrastructure, you should look into where the core protocols involved in this "Internet" thing we're using come from.