Whenever you a hear of a benevolent sounding NGO working in some foreign country you can bet is a basket full of snakes working to screw the poor bastards.

https://consortiumnews.com/2017/09/13/reagan-documents-shed-light-on-u-s-meddling/

“Secret” documents, recently declassified by the Reagan presidential library, reveal senior White House officials reengaging a former CIA “proprietary,” The Asia Foundation, in “political action,” an intelligence term of art for influencing the actions of foreign governments.

The newly declassified memos from the latter half of 1982 marked an ad hoc period of transition between the CIA scandals, which peaked in the 1970s, and the creation of more permanent institutions to carry out these semi-secretive functions, particularly the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which was created in 1983. Read the rest of this entry »