Non-governmental organizations (NGOs), community-based organizations and civil society groups are often praised for their grassroots activity. However, some of them are subtly used as conduits for advancing sinister agendas under the auspices of Western intelligence networks, disrupting a country's social, economic, and political development—a stark contrast to their stated goals, David Hundeyin, an investigative journalist, author and researcher, tells Sputnik Africa in an interview.
"Most of these quote-and-unquote NGO, CLO, CSO actors in the international space are funded by organizations or are themselves organizations that are tied to Western intelligence organizations. There's a very well-known, and sort of renowned network of these organizations that are linked, for example, to the CIA. The Ford Foundation happens to be one of these organizations," Hundeyin reveals.
The CIA-funded Ford Foundation happens to be one of the organizations behind the NGO called Dialogue Earth, he stresses, adding that another organization called Climate Works is also tied to Western intelligence.
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