{"id":303971,"date":"2025-02-22T06:12:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T06:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=303971"},"modified":"2025-02-23T08:30:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T08:30:34","slug":"usaid-isnt-only-a-radical-left-marxist-psyop-it-was-also-running-covert-operations-for-the-cia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=303971","title":{"rendered":"USAID isn\u2019t only a \u201cradical-left Marxist PsyOp\u201d it was also running covert operations for the CIA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rhoda Wilson \u2013 The Expose Feb 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The original mission of USAID was to provide support to developing countries in their efforts to acquire knowledge and resources essential to development.<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, over time, the agency\u2019s mission became corrupted and it was used as a tool for domestic political agendas and foreign covert operations by the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency (\u201cCIA\u201d).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Steve Dewey \u2013 Feb 20, 2025<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The United States Agency for International Development (\u201cUSAID\u201d) was established by President John F. Kennedy on 3 November 1961.\u00a0 Kennedy created USAID to implement the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and consolidate several existing foreign assistance organisations and programmes into a single agency under the US State Department.<\/p>\n

In 1998, USAID split off from the State Department and became a stand-alone agency, which led to a lack of transparency and accountability, resulting in widespread waste, fraud and abuse.<\/p>\n

DOGE Revelations<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Department of Government Efficiency (\u201cDOGE\u201d), established by President Trump and led by Elon Musk, began reviewing and terminating wasteful contracts, leases, and grants across several government agencies, including USAID.<\/p>\n

Musk described USAID as a \u201cball of worms\u201d during a live discussion, stating that the agency is beyond repair and should be eliminated.\u00a0 He also posted critical comments about USAID on X (formerly Twitter), calling it a \u201cviper\u2019s nest of radical-left Marxists who hate America\u201d and a \u201cradical-left political PsyOp\u201d.<\/p>\n

Senator Joni Ernst authored an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>, describing USAID as a \u201crogue agency\u201d that has a history of stonewalling congressional requests for information about its activities and criticising the agency for misusing tax dollars and protesting the review of its records by DOGE.<\/p>\n

The criticisms of USAID by Musk and Senator Ernst are backed up by detailed lists of waste, fraud and abuse uncovered by the DOGE team and congressional committees.<\/p>\n

At the end of last month, a tweet posted by DOGE<\/a> showing the value of DEI contracts terminated as part of a broader push to reduce government spending on DEI initiatives and other programmes deemed wasteful or unnecessary.\u00a0 The list included seven DEI-related USAID contracts with a total contract value of $375.1 million.\u00a0 As if that wasn\u2019t bad enough, the waste and abuse of funds were happening outside the USA as well.<\/p>\n

On 3 February, the Trump White House released a fact sheet titled \u2018At USAID, Waste and Abuse Runs Deep<\/a><\/em>\u2019, which highlighted numerous examples of wasteful USAID spending, including millions of dollars spent on promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (\u201cDEI\u201d) and LGBT activism in multiple countries, as well as hundreds of millions of dollars paid to support poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan that benefitted the Taliban regime.<\/p>\n

The next day, the House Foreign Affairs Committee also issued a press release<\/a> listing several egregious examples of USAID\u2019s wasteful spending in various countries.<\/p>\n

Some recipient countries, such as El Salvador, have expressed that they no longer want USAID funds due to concerns that the majority of the money is funnelled into opposition groups, non-governmental organisations (\u201cNGOs\u201d) with political agendas, and destabilising movements rather than reaching real projects that help people in need.<\/p>\n

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele tweeted<\/a>, \u201cCutting this so-called aid isn\u2019t just beneficial for the United States; it\u2019s also a big win for the rest of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Censorship, Disinformation and Covert Operations<\/strong><\/h2>\n

According to former State Department official Mike Benz, USAID\u2019s activities go beyond foreign aid and into radical left-wing cultural and political activism, including disinformation campaigns and censorship efforts in collaboration with the State Department and the CIA, which have been exacerbated in recent years.<\/p>\n

Benz, the founder and executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online<\/a> provided a detailed report<\/a> on USAID\u2019s censorship operation using the agency\u2019s own internal documents, including a 97-page proprietary \u2018Disinformation Primer<\/a>\u2019 that outlines the agency\u2019s advocacy for economically damaging censorship strategies, many of which have been deployed in America to throttle populists.<\/p>\n

USAID\u2019s \u2018Disinformation Primer\u2019 was dated February 2021, the first month after the Biden Administration took office.\u00a0 It proposes censorship action points for various governmental, non-governmental and private-sector commercial actors across society.\u00a0 The concerns this raises about the \u201caid\u201d agency\u2019s role in promoting censorship and undermining democratic societies are obvious.<\/p>\n

Benz has explained in recent interviews that the CIA cannot lawfully engage in covert operations without a presidential finding but USAID is not subject to the same requirement.\u00a0 This allows the CIA and the State Department to use USAID to carry out covert operations that they want to hide from the President and Congress.<\/p>\n

Independent journalist Michael Shellenberger has written an article<\/a> corroborating the comments made by Benz, in which he discusses USAID\u2019s history of regime change, destabilisation and censorship.<\/p>\n

According to Shellenberger, USAID has been funding censorship advocacy worldwide through its \u2018Countering Disinformation\u2019 programme \u2013 which is part of its Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening \u2013 as a means to overthrow governments abroad or influence their actions.<\/p>\n

Trump Administration\u2019s Actions and Plans for USAID<\/strong><\/h2>\n

After exposing USAID\u2019s extensive waste, fraud and abuse, the Trump Administration has taken steps to shut down USAID\u2019s head office in Washington, D.C., and is planning to fire over 10,000 USAID staff.\u00a0 Both Trump and Musk favour abolishing USAID as an agency and the transfer of its legitimate foreign aid functions to the State Department.<\/p>\n

The potential abolition of USAID by Trump through executive order is legally questionable but there is a general consensus that the agency needs to be dramatically downsized, with its transparency and accountability restored under the State Department and its functions returned to the basics of its original mission as envisioned by John F. Kennedy in 1961.<\/p>\n

The above is a summary of the article \u2018USAID\u2019s Nefarious Activities Go Beyond Foreign Aid Corruption\u2019 published by The Daily Economy<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 You can read the full article HERE<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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DOGE has exposed USAID as a vast global political operation, extending far beyond mismanaged foreign aid: into areas where it was involved in promoting censorship, disinformation and regime change<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":303973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303972,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303971\/revisions\/303972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/303973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}