How The NED and USAID Are Tools Of Neo-Con Foreign Policy.
The idea, he explained, came after a series of “scandalous revelations” that came out in 1967 showing that the CIA was covertly funding “foundations” in order to “channel money into overseas organizations”. The revelations showed that the CIA was giving “money and instructions” to foreign groups in order to advance American foreign policy goals.
The idea, he explained, came after a series of “scandalous revelations” that came out in 1967 showing that the CIA was covertly funding “foundations” in order to “channel money into overseas organizations”. The revelations showed that the CIA was giving “money and instructions” to foreign groups in order to advance American foreign policy goals.
After this scandal, Agee explained, Florida congressman Dante Fascell proposed “an open system to finance these overseas organizations” such as “government organizations, political parties, media organizations, youth organizations, and student organizations” that were in reality “taking money and instructions from the CIA”.
This idea eventually materialized into the Ronald Regan-created NED in 1983. Agee exposed that the creation of it was used as a “mega conduit” for the “tens of millions of dollars set aside for the meddling in the internal affairs of foreign countries” to go to.
Foreign Policy Magazine wrote in 2014 that “Foreign governments have long accused the U.S. Agency for International Development of being a front for the CIA or other groups dedicated to their collapse. In the case of Cuba, they appear to have been right.”
USAID also funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars to think tanks such as “New Citizen” which spurred the original 2014 protests in Ukraine that eventually led to a coup against the country’s democratically elected leader Viktor Yanukovych.
USAID also funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars to think tanks such as “New Citizen” which spurred the original 2014 protests in Ukraine that eventually led to a coup against the country’s democratically elected leader Viktor Yanukovych.
These USAID-funded protests were eventually taken over by far-right groups such as the Svoboda party and the Right Sector. Right Sector committed a sniper massacre that killed 51 protests which they then blamed on Yanukovych in order to overthrow him in a violent coup.
This allowed the U.S. to install Arseniy Yatseniuk as the interim prime minister of Ukraine who Forbes Magazine described as “Washington's Man” because he was “willing to do the IMF bidding” and implement the “International Monetary Fund's demand to raise taxes and devalue the currency” which “Yanukovych resisted”.
USAID has also given millions of dollars to the Syrian rescue group “the White Helmets”. While at face value giving money to a rescue group may seem innocent a closer look shows something more nefarious.
For one, the group only worked in rebel-controlled areas and had an unconformably close relationship with extremist Syrian rebels who at the time were backed by the CIA. As the UK’s Channel 4 news reported the group is on video “assisting” with a public execution, by taking a man’s body away from the scene straight after he was shot dead” and was “filmed handling mutilated corpses, and helping armed militants to dispose of the dead bodies of pro-Assad fighters.”
The Trump administration is almost certainly going to continue these operations under a different name but nevertheless, these organizations should not be defended.
