When the NED was founded in 1983 under the Reagan administration, its purpose was clear. Designed to take over many of the CIA’s covert operations, it adopted a public façade of supporting ...
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Additional input for the new NED in 1983 came from spymaster William Casey, CIA director from 1981 to 1987, who, after the intelligence scandals of the 70s, had swung around to the view that ...