USAID
 USAID      | |
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| Parent organization | US/Department of State |
| Headquarters | Ronald Reagan Building, Washington DC |
| Leader | USAID/Administrator Incumbent: Gayle E. Smith Since 2 December 2015 |
| Subgroups | Office of Public Safety |
| Staff | 3,909 |
| Subpage | •USAID/Administrator |
USAID is an agency of the US State Department intended to provide "international development".
Office of Public Safety
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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
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| 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 |
