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I am guessing there are tens of thousands of perfectly legitimate shell companies created each year (maybe more), and the number of CIA entities in that mountain of corporate activity is, relatively speaking, a minuscule speck.
Shell companies are a mainstay of mergers and acquisitions, for instance. Perfectly legitimate and useful.
Respectfully, the idea that Delaware is somehow a haven for shady corporate activities is simply uninformed, as is the idea that "Shell company" connotes something nefarious. What we are talking about here is part of America's special capitalist expertise: corporate finance.
Having done a number of pure + ‘company’ startups, it’s very common to have Delaware as filing state because tax laws are business friendly. In my experience post 9/11 things were hush hush but they’d issue press releases about such (some pertaining to the things they had me do are still there). BTW for those who don’t know, “IQT” = Intel + Tech with “Q” in the middle (referring to James Bond lore). The greatest experience in my life was to see such things I built on display in the ‘company’ museum in a display near a big chunk of the Berlin Wall and section of wall from the infamous bug-infested Russian embassy (below ground, no public visitors since you have to be there to see) ... I/we never then envisioned or contemplated such things could be used for ill purposes ;(