USAID

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Group.png USAID   WebsiteRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Parent organizationUS/Department/State
HeadquartersRonald Reagan BuildingWashington, D.C.
Staff3,909
Founder ofBetter Than Cash Alliance
SubpageUSAID/Administrator

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]

 

Related Quotation

PageQuoteAuthorDate
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 HurdJuly 2013

 

Employees on Wikispooks

EmployeeJobAppointedEndDescription
Jeanne BourgaultDirector of Office of Democratic Initiatives19952001
Jeanne BourgaultAdvisor19982001
David GordonRegional economic policy and democracy/governance advisor - Nairobi KenyaSpook - cover job for regime change
William MacomberAssistant administrator19641967
Sally SheltonAssistant Administrator19931999
William SteigerWhite House Chief of Staff201720212005 YGL
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