Internet CIA project: Russian president

According to Press TV, the Russian president made the remarks on Thursday, stressing that the Internet was a special project by the CIA and “is still developing as such.”

Putin also warned the Russian people against making Google searches, emphasizing that every entry made into Google goes through servers in the United States.

Putin’s remarks come on the backdrop of revelations made public by US surveillance whistleblower, Edward Snowden.

The  former CIA employee leaked two top secret US government spying programs under which the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are eavesdropping on millions of American and European phone records and the Internet data from major Internet companies such as Facebook, Yahoo, Google, Apple, and Microsoft.