Transparency International

Transparency International   (Front?)
Abbreviation	TI
Formation	1993
Founder	•  Peter Eigen •  Michael Hershman
Headquarters	Berlin,  Germany
Leader	Transparency International/Managing director
Type	International non-governmental organization
Interests	corruption
Member of	Russia/Undesirable organization
Sponsored by	Adessium Foundation, Google News Initiative, King Baudouin Foundation, Luminate, Norway/Ministry/Foreign Affairs, Omidyar Network, Open Society Foundations
Subpage	•Transparency International/Managing director
"the global coalition against corruption"

Transparency International (TI) is according to itself an non-governmental organization monitoring and indexing corruption worldwide. In reality, the organization is deeply corrupted, being a tool for Western governments' foreign policy objectives and whitewashing big corporations.

History

Transparency International was officially established by Michael Hershman, an officer of US military intelligence. He is furthermore a Centre for International Private Enterprise director and today Head of Recruitment of FBI informants as well as Managing Director of the private intelligence service Fairfax Group.

Transparency International is first and foremost a cover for economic intelligence activities by the CIA. It is also a media tool to compel states to change their legislation to guarantee open markets. In addition it is a pressure tool in regime change operations, where official enemies of the US get maximum corruption score.

UK Branch

The UK chapter of Transparency International sets out its priorities as:

• combatting corruption in the UK;
• reducing the UK’s role in fuelling corruption overseas; and,
• combatting corruption in the international defence and security sector.

Acting Executive Director is Duncan Hames and 46 staff members are listed here.

Funding

Despite describing itself as an NGO, Transparency International’s funding is dominated by the governments of the United States and the European Union and their cutouts. Money sources include the US State Department, the European Commission, the US State Department’s National Endowment for Democracy (NED), Britain’s Department for International Development and the Open Society Foundations, owned by billionaire George Soros.

Other big funders are multinational companies. The London office of TI whose bankers are HSBC, get donations from the likes of Shell BV and GlaxoSmithKline with other investors in the business forum via a 'Premium Membership' costing up to £20,000 each that includes Barclays plc, Lloyds Bank and RBS. Others included (either now or previously) are British American Tobacco (BAT) and Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC).

The UK and Brazil branches of TI received $1.3 million in grants in September 2025 from the U.S. State Department's international narcotics and law enforcement arm INL. TI UK was awarded a $580,000 grant from the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) for "sponsored research." Transparency International received £3 million in funding from the British foreign office on December 4, 2025.

Jack Poulson wrote how

Transparency International’s US branch was disaccredited in 2017, partly as a result of the organization providing a leadership award to one of its many U.S. corporate donors, which included the weapons manufacturers Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, as well as the technology giant Google

Transparency International's New Zealand branch further confirmed to Radio New Zealand in 2023 that it had received funding from the country's signals intelligence and foreign intelligence agencies. Its Australia branch was also revealed to have been led from 2006 until 2016 by the commercial lawyer Michael C. Ahrens, who was simultaneously a member of the board of directors of the Australian branch of the American data analytics and intelligence contractor Palantir (beginning circa June 2010) and of the New Zealand branch (beginning October 27, 2015).

TI Brazil’s president circa July 2021 until September 2023 was likewise Marco Gomes, a technology executive who spent more than five years as a deployment strategist at Palantir

 

Employee on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Description
Alan Waldron	Military Advisor	Also the spooky Institute for Statecraft

 

Sponsors

Event	Description
Adessium Foundation	A secretive Dutch foundation that donates to projects backed by Western governments.
Google News Initiative	Google and the deep state buying domination over corporate media and creating tools to censor independent voices.
King Baudouin Foundation	The Belgian royal family, which made its fortune from hand-chopping in the Congo and created the first stooge NGO the International African Association, feels the urge finance new ventures. Coordinates with of a number of similar foundations owned by billionaires or NATO countries , financing select projects.
Luminate	Pierre Omidyar's foundation for financing global media and civil society groups. It is unknown how close it coordinates with certain deep state US government agencies.
Norway/Ministry/Foreign Affairs	A significant donor to NGOs and planning organizations. Many of the recipients dovetail with NATO objectives like regime changes and controlling the narrative.
Omidyar Network	Foundation owned by the the deep state-connected billionaire Pierre Omidyar, financing preferred NGOs
Open Society Foundations	A NGO operating in more countries than McDonald's. It has the tendency to support politicians (at times through astroturfing) and activists that get branded as "extreme left" as its founder is billionaire and bane of the pound George Soros. This polarizing perspective causes the abnormal influence of the OSF to go somewhat unanswered.

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:GCHQ and Me: My Life Unmasking British Eavesdroppers	Article	3 August 2015	Duncan Campbell	No one at the May 2015 conference on intelligence, security and privacy argued against greater openness. Thanks to Edward Snowden and those who courageously came before, the need for public accountability and review has become unassailable.

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