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Most people hear USAID and think food, medicine, clean water, schools and humanitarian relief.
Then you start reading the declassified documents.
Part 1 of a 7-part investigation into USAID & the CIA has dropped.
And it starts with one sentence. 🧵
The drug pipeline didn't start with a dealer.
It started with infrastructure built by USAID and the CIA.
Poppy fields. Buyers. Helicopters. Roads. Air America.
Then comes the question nobody asks:
How did they foolproof it against the world?
Link in the comments. 👇
This investigation follows the documents behind how the Russian enemy was constructed, reinforced, and eventually embedded in Western political culture.
https://t.co/BE4pSJRajI
When did Russia become the villain?
Western fear of Russia has a history stretching back centuries—and the stories used to shape that fear weren't even real.
Full investigation linked in the comments. 🐇
The pattern is documented:
USAID access.
CIA proprietary training.
Daily liaison.
Student files for “operational use.”
Weapons sales.
Joint CIA–USAID specialist courses.
Read Part 2: The School Behind the School 👇
https://t.co/O879ENX1rk
OPS/IPS student lists and biographical information were sent to CIA components for “operational use.”
The CIA Police Group also said liaison with AID/OPS and the academy happened DAILY.
Training was only part of the value.
Then there’s the 1973 joint CIA–USAID Technical Investigations Course.
Phase 1: International Police Academy.
Phase 2: a redacted Agency facility.
Training included demolitions, incendiaries, improvised devices, explosive charges and booby traps.
The Pike investigation estimated that as many as 5,000 foreign police officers from 100+ countries received CIA training without knowing it.
Many later became senior officials back home.
That’s a global recruitment pipeline.
Foreign police officers came to America for USAID training.
Some then entered a CIA-run proprietary school without even knowing it was the CIA...
investigators documented it.
Here’s the school behind the school. 🧵
The public course lasted 14 weeks.
Then selected officers could receive 4 more weeks through International Police Services — a CIA proprietary operating under an AID contract.
Same students.
Different instructors.
Different mission.
🚨 JUST IN: President Trump just did the absolute impossible sending shockwaves in the WORLD. He made a HISTORIC landmark Deal with Greenland
“This gives the United States Permanent control over security and all other needs in Greenland”
WE ESSENTIALLY GOT GREENLAND
GWU has been a hotbed for CIA recruiting (CIA-RDP90-00965R000807500013-1) for years.
Combine that with the Strategy of Tension you see in Operation Gladio...and this makes perfect sense.
That transition (from wartime OSS networks to a permanent peacetime intelligence service) is one of the rabbit holes behind my Good Shepherd series.
Read Part 1: https://t.co/488AbaRh9b
Follow the documents. 🐇
Here’s something you may not know: one-third of the CIA's original personnel were OSS veterans.
Within weeks, the new agency was being given authority to conduct covert action.