[sedawkgrep]

Do you have any source for any of this?

[ChrisMarshallNY]

NPOs are traditional places for CIA agents.

Tends to make them targets of suspicion.

Source: My father[0] was in the CIA, and worked at an NPO, in Africa.

[0] https://cmarshall.com/miscellaneous/MikeMarshall.htm

[heisgone]

>Increasingly, he found his cover work more engaging and important than his intelligence-gathering.

Your father was a great man.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

Agreed. He left the CIA, because they became something he couldn't reconcile with himself.

[irl_zebra]

If nothing else, the "Political Operations Abroad" section of USAID's wiki has some links and background.

[pjc50]

Source for Top Secret info? No, but I'm reminded of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_fake_vaccination_campaign_... (not USAID, a different organization)

[heisgone]

If you don't mind listening to right-wing adjacent commentators, Mike Benz document those links extensively on his podcast. For exemple:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR09YYX-3fg