USAID
 USAID       | |
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| Parent organization | US/Department/State |
| Headquarters | Ronald Reagan Building, Washington DC |
| Leader | USAID/Administrator |
| Subgroups | Office of Public Safety |
| Staff | 3,909 |
| Interests | economic development |
| Founder of | Better Than Cash Alliance |
| Sponsor of | Better Than Cash Alliance, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, B92 |
| Subpage | •USAID/Administrator |
USAID is an agency of the US State Department intended to provide "international development".
Contents
Office of Public Safety
- Full article: Office of Public Safety
- Full article: Office of Public Safety
The Office of Public Safety, nominally under USAID, was shut down in 1974 after James Abourezk revealed that it had been training torture techniques to foreign police.[citation needed]
Activities
In 2008, the US State Department, through its "foreign assistance" agency USAID, set up a fake social network in Cuba. Supposedly concerned with public health and civics, its operatives actively targeted likely dissidents. The site came complete with hashtags, dummy advertisements and a database of users' "political tendencies".[1]
In 2016, Wikileaks termed the Panama Papers leak a "Putin attack" and that it "was produced by OCCRP which targets Russia & former USSR and was funded by USAID & Soros".[2]
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| DFID | “The blind eye turned by USAID and DFID to the human rights violations and forced evictions that accompany the so-called development strategy of Ethiopia is shocking. These agencies give virtually unconditional financial, political, and moral support to the Ethiopian government and DFID currently spends a larger proportion of its overseas aid budget on Ethiopia than any other country.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> During their investigation, the DFID and USAID representatives were given first-hand accounts of human rights abuses but the agencies have subsequently claimed, and still claim, that these accounts have not been substantiated.” | Will Hurd | July 2013 |
Employees on Wikispooks
| Employee | Job | Appointed | End | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeanne Bourgault | Director of Office of Democratic Initiatives | 1995 | 2001 | |
| Jeanne Bourgault | Advisor | 1998 | 2001 | |
| David Gordon | Regional economic policy and democracy/governance advisor - Nairobi Kenya | Spook - cover job for regime change | ||
| William Macomber | Assistant administrator | 1964 | 1967 | |
| Sally Shelton | Assistant Administrator | 1993 | 1999 | |
| William Steiger | White House Chief of Staff | 2017 | 2021 | 2005 YGL |
