The Asia Foundation

The need that it addresses is, I'll give you an example.

We are in the third year out of a three-year project with the Asia Foundation, where we are working with them to train 300,000 micro and small businesses across 11 countries in Asia.

And it's

just as I described.

Oren notes that Kirkpatrick put his name and academic credentials on counter-propaganda books that, though published by ostensibly private imprints, were actually penned by State Department researchers.

Campbellman, in his capacity as APSA treasurer, covertly received CIA funds through conduits such as the Asia Foundation, and he and Kirkpatrick conspired to make sure that a substantial lump sum was paid from APSA to Kirkpatrick's private pension fund.

According to history professor Bruce Cummings, CIA-connected faculty were so influential in the 1960s that they made critics who stood for academic principle looked like wild-eyed radicals.

MIT's Ithiel de Sola Poole openly called in 1966 for social science to be placed in service of the CIA.