The Asia Foundation was founded in 1954 and throughout the 1960s had an annual budget of about $8 million. This money was used to support Asian schools and libraries, give travel grants to Asians for international conferences, and in support of expanded Pacific trade. In 1967 it was revealed that they were receiving CIA funds. Victor Marchetti, once an executive assistant to the CIA's deputy director, is less delicate -- he says Asia Foundation was established by the CIA and until 1967 was heavily subsidized by them, even though some of their activities were legitimate.
These days the National Endowment for Democracy model is preferred over
those old, risky, secret CIA conduits, so in 1984 the Asia Foundation Act
provided for funds from the Department of State. In 1987 the Foundation
received $10 million from State and another $3.7 million from AID, in
addition to private support (88 percent of which was in the form of donated
books) and matching Asian contributions. We wonder if Asia Foundation is
really out of the U.S. intelligence loop after all.
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