World Vision
 World Vision  (NGO)      | |
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| Formation | 1950 |
| Founder | Robert Pierce |
| Christian humanitarian aid organization reputed to have a close connection to the CIA. | |
World Vision International is a Christian humanitarian aid, development, and advocacy organization. The group is reputed to have a close connection to the CIA.[1]
Contents
Activities
South East Asia
When it began to operate in Vietnam in the mid-1960s, World Vision decided to put its large headquarters across the street in front of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. The journalist Michael Lee states that World Vision was openly supportive of U.S. intervention in South East Asia and enjoyed the support of the U.S. Army as evidenced by its use of American military trucks and helicopters during its field programmes. "The CIA", Lee added, "used information obtained by the group's field workers as a part of its normal intelligence function".[1]
In 1975, after a fact-finding mission for the World Council of Churches (WCC), a Japanese churchman, John Nakajima, attacked World Vision's work in Cambodia. His accusations, reprinted in a number of newspapers, painted the organization as a pawn of the American military, an agency that received 95 percent of its operating budget from USAID while ignoring the needs of local Cambodians. World Vision's chief contribution, Nakajima claimed, was serving as a conduit of information for the CIA.[2]
Central America
In the 1980s, World Vision was present at the Honduran border, in camps used by American CIA to recruit Contras-mercenaries against Nicaragua. They were at Sabra and Shatilla, Camps in Lebanon where the Phalange massacred the Palestinians.[3] Their representatives in the Cuban refugee camps on the east coast of the US included members of the Bay of Pigs operation, CIA-financed mercenaries from Omega 7 and Alpha 66.[4]
In 1981, most aid agencies active in the region decided to stop registering Salvadorean refugees with the Honduran military government because of suspicions that their names were being reported to the Salvadoran death squads directed by Major Roberto d'Aubuisson, a leading light in the WACL and to the Honduran security and intelligence services. As it happened during the Vietnam War, World Vision ignored the decision taken by the other aid agencies and continued to register the names of refugees with the Honduran government.[1]
Africa
World Vision was aligned with the US attempt to prop up the apartheid government in South Africa, by strategic distribution of aid during conflicts in neighboring countries.[1]
In 1986, a Ghanaian vessel that was secretly smuggling weapons into Ghana in an attempt to topple the Government of Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings by the Ivory Coast authorities, was captured after a tip-off. Very soon it transpired that the ship belonged to a Ghanaian exile group led by Lieutenant General Joshua M. Ilamidou, former Chief of Staff of the Ghanaian Army and now Regional Director of World Vision International based in Nairobi, Kenya.[1]
People
- John W. Hinkley Sr., a friend of George HW Bush and father of John Hinckley was president of the board for World Vision.[5][6][7]
- Mark David Chapman worked for World Vision.[8][9]
Known member
1 of the 2 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| Mark David Chapman | The convicted but probable controlled patsy killer of John Lennon. |
References
- ↑ a b c d e https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files2/art00000000.043.027.018.pdf archived
- ↑ David P. King God's Internationalists: World Vision and the Age of Evangelical Humanitarianism, page 136-137
- ↑ World Vision Magazine, 1983; “Final Report of Israeli Commission of Inquiry,” Journal Palestinian Studies, Spring, 1983; “Kahan Commission,” Midstream, 6-7/83; Guardian, 11/17/81.
- ↑ Terrorism in Miami: Suppressing Free Speech,” Counterspy, 3-5/84; Guardian, 11/17/81.
- ↑ https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/112600.html
- ↑ https://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2012/03/bush-family-world-vision-behind-jfk.html
- ↑ https://whowhatwhy.org/2016/08/16/bush-angle-reagan-shooting-still-unresolved-hinckley-walks/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Killed-John-Lennon-Fenton-Bresler/dp/0312923678
- ↑ https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=78282
