• Qelp [they/them,she/her]
    hexagon
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    4 years ago

    literally, the founder of the NED said in an interview in the 1990's that "we do all the stuff the cia did covertly 25 years ago"

    • Gay_Wrath [fae/faer]
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      edit-2
      4 years ago

      Source, for the skeptics

      https://outline.com/R7DqLX (outline cuz fuck wapo)

      "A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA," agrees Weinstein.

      Who is weinstein, you ask?

      why he was the cofounder of NED and the archivist for George W. Bush!

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Weinstein

        • Gay_Wrath [fae/faer]
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          4 years ago

          the outline one? it's just a website you can put most news links into and it'll give you a non-gatekeeped version. Super useful.

          https://outline.com/

            • Gay_Wrath [fae/faer]
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              4 years ago

              The article was published in wapo

              https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/09/22/innocence-abroad-the-new-world-of-spyless-coups/92bb989a-de6e-4bb8-99b9-462c76b59a16/