USAID

USAID
Parent organization	US/Department of 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".

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.

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".

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".

 

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