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10 months ago“A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA” - then NED president Allen Weinstein
NED’s President Carl Gershman said that the NED was created because “It would be terrible for democratic groups around the world to be seen as subsidized by the CIA.”
It’s literally a group that does CIA stuff, without using the CIA name.
It’s more similar to not believing Goebbels radio broadcasts about the USSR. We don’t distrust NED, the CIA, or the State Department just because they did something bad once, but because it is both a consistent pattern of spreading misinformation and because it is their stated purpose to rile up dissident groups in US opposed countries.