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The '''National Endowment for Democracy''' ('''NED''') is a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] cut-out soft-power organization which finances protest groups to destabilize targets of US foreign policy. | The '''National Endowment for Democracy''' ('''NED''') is a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] cut-out<ref>[https://williamblum.org/chapters/rogue-state/trojan-horse-the-national-endowment-for-democracy Trojan Horse: The National Endowment for Democracy]</ref><ref>[https://www.voltairenet.org/article192992.html NED, the Legal Window of the CIA]</ref> soft-power<ref>[https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/national-endowment-for-democracy/ NED on InfluenceWatch]</ref> organization which finances protest groups to destabilize targets of US foreign policy. | ||
In 1986, 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. We saw that in the 1960's and that's why it has been discontinued".<ref>{{cite news|last1=Shipler|first1=David K.|title=Missionaries for democracy: US aid for global pluralism|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/01/world/missionaries-for-democracy-us-aid-for-global-pluralism.html|access-date=2 April 2021|url-access=subscription|work=The New York Times|date=1 June 1986|quote=It would be terrible for democratic groups around the world to be seen as subsidized by the CIA. We saw that in the 1960's and that's why it has been discontinued. We have not had the capability of doing this, and that's why the endowment was created.}}</ref> | In 1986, 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. We saw that in the 1960's and that's why it has been discontinued".<ref>{{cite news|last1=Shipler|first1=David K.|title=Missionaries for democracy: US aid for global pluralism|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/01/world/missionaries-for-democracy-us-aid-for-global-pluralism.html|access-date=2 April 2021|url-access=subscription|work=The New York Times|date=1 June 1986|quote=It would be terrible for democratic groups around the world to be seen as subsidized by the CIA. We saw that in the 1960's and that's why it has been discontinued. We have not had the capability of doing this, and that's why the endowment was created.}}</ref> | ||
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The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a CIA cut-out[1][2] soft-power[3] organization which finances protest groups to destabilize targets of US foreign policy.
In 1986, 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. We saw that in the 1960's and that's why it has been discontinued".[4]
In 1991 during an interview with Allen Weinstein the then-president of the NED said "A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA."[5]
Critics have compared the NED's funding of Nicaraguan groups (pro-U.S. and conservative unions, political parties, student groups, business groups, and women's associations) in the 1980s and 1990s in Nicaragua to the previous CIA effort "to challenge and undermine" the socialist government of Chile.[6]