USAID in India - A Tale of espionage and economic loot🧵
Regime Change in India
Part 16🎭
USAID has been a tool of soft espionage for the CIA and its allied foundations since the day one.🎭
Let's explore:
how India's first Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru sold out India's economy to the USAID Agenda
and
How USAID funded anti India elements with impunity.
1. The Agreement
In 1954 Nehru Govt signed India US PL 480 agreement. (US PL stands for US Public Law)
This was done to solve the food shortage crisis in India.
The Architect of the PL 480 was US Senator Hubert Humphrey who was also heading Senate committee for foreign assistance. Hubert Humphrey would coordinate with C.I.A. directly for deciding about the targets and goals of foreign assistance.
This agreement allowed India to:
1. Buy foodgrains mainly wheat from the US. 2. India would pay in Rupees at then dollar rupees exchange rate. 3. Indian Govt officials would be responsible for the freight cost and safe shipment of the foodgrains from the US to India. India will bear 50% freight cost. 4. Payments sent by India will be deposited in the account of the U.S. Technical Cooperation Mission Delhi.
The US Govt argued that this agreement will solve two issues:
1. Food grain crisis of India 2. Foreign currency reserves conservation for India since India was paying in its own currency
So, was it genuine gesture from the US or was it a trick to fleece India?
Let's find out in the next parts of this thread!!
2. The Plot
First interesting thing about PL 480 was that foodgrains purchased under this program were distributed based on the recommendations of The Ford Foundation India, USAID India and USOM (US Operations Mission).
How Ford Foundation infiltrated India and to what extent that I will cover in next thread.
Meanwhile PL 480 funds which were deposited in the account of the U.S. Technical Cooperation Mission Delhi, would be used as follows:
1. Operational expenses of the US Embassy, Delhi
2. Development Project loans to India
3. Financial Support to Nepal and Burma
4. Funding to private enterprises through USAID as per Cooley Amendment - Those companies which are either US Companies or Indian companies selling agricultural products of these US Companies as their affiliates
5. Local currency for the US Tourists and Technicians visiting India
So, India was paying for wheat.
India's money was used to give back loans to India.
India's money was used to fund US Companies to capture India's agricultural products market.
This went on like a whirlpool of economic fleecing till 1966 when Indian officials and politicians started complaining that wheat sold by the US was so poor that it was not fit for consumption by even pigs...!!
The US Govt. went into blackmail mode when it saw media reports in India asking for India to sign a wheat import agreement with Canada to reduce 100% dependency on the US for wheat imports.
In 1966 when India asked US to renegotiate the PL 480 FOOD FOR PEACE program costs, The US retaliated by arm twisting India to devaluate its currency to make PL 480 exports for the US companies amenable due to increased production and freight costs (50% freight India was already paying).
India did not heed to the US advise.
So, the US started sending wheat shipments in monthly installment rather than in bulk shipments as was the norm causing a sort of foodgrain crisis in India.
So finally, India relented, devaluated its currency by 37% and US wheat shipments resumed its normal course!!!
3. The Slogan
The USAID head William S. Gaud delivered a speech at The Society for International Development conference in Washington in 1968.
He said:
These and other developments in the field of agriculture contain the makings of a new revolution. It is not a violet, Red Revolution like that of the Soviets, nor is it a White Revolution like that of the Shah of Iran. I call it the Green Revolution.
From that day onwards "GREEN REVOLUTION" became the marketing slogan of Rockefeller Foundation which was running its agriculture development program in India and the USAID which was funding hundreds of such initiatives in India.
Rockefeller foundation had deputed its employee Norman Borlaug who worked with them as plant pathologist, to lead its India program.
Norman Borlaug created an agricultural economy in India based on the US developed seeds to bring in what he termed "HIGH YEILDING CROP VARIETIES".
Seed market in India was marginal so as per PL 480 arrangements and USAID funding backing US Companies captured India's seed market in no time.
by 1970 CARGILL FOODS and Monsanto were largest company selling crop seeds in India!!
## William S. Gaud was a member of Council for Foreign relations (CFR) and he had served US Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson from 1945 to 1947.
4. The Charity of Spies - 1
Since 1951 when The Ford Foundation entered India and CIA Cultural wing CCF (Congress for Cultural Freedom) established Indian Committee for Cultural Freedom in New Delhi, USOM and USIS based out of the US embassy in Delhi became a curtain for all the espionage and subversive activities of CIA in India.
Meanwhile USAID was on point source for economic intelligence (especially agriculture and Agronomy) in India.
The USAID started Sending special reports to US Govt based on its own analysis of the Indian agronomy.
5. The Charity of Spies - 2
The USAID focused on two things:
1. Bringing in American experts to train them for its projects in India
2. To fund agricultural Universities in India for creating future experts
And USAID supplemented above points with a funding of 11 million USD between 1955 to 1963.
6. The Charity of Spies - 3
in 1961 Development Loan fund created by the US Congress way back in 1957, was made a part of the USAID.
Now USAID was reigning supreme for every single dollar sent to India by the US govt. for development project funding.
USAID alone disbursed 1.7 billion dollars to India from 1957 to 1963!!
7. The Charity of Spies - 4
USAID facilitated more than 70 US universities to collaborate with Indian Agriculture Universities and more than 130 Agriculture colleges.
8. The Charity of Spies - 5
But biggest twist in the story would come up through a CIA report of 1973 which clearly mentioned "Training USAID employees" for intelligence gathering and CIA counter terrorist information collection to be shared with CIA and the US Govt.!!
And if you trace USAID activities right through its funding and activities, there is no doubt left that it is a CIA counterpart in enforcing US agenda and deep state propaganda in every country where it operates.
9. The Hundred Heads of Hydra
Just look at the below chart.
This is what USAID has created in India.
You call it nexus, you call it network, you call it propaganda but right now it is beyond the comprehension of a normal person.
PS - You may want to download this chart for better visual clarity!!
Let's see what kind of elements USAID is supporting against India.
10. Blood Money - 1
USAID has funded HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND EVELOPMENT which funds Falah - e- Insaniyat foundation a front of Jamat Ul Dawa which is nothing but renamed version of Laskar E Taiba founded by the Pakistan based terrorist Hafiz Sayeed.
Helping Hand for relief is connected to Islamic council of North America and ISI backed Friends of Kashmir founded by ISI Stooge in the US Ghazala Habib who also work us the US Spokeswoman of the Kashmir based Hurriyat Conference since 1920.
11. Blood Money - 2
In the year 2022 US AID Inspector general flagged the USAID grants to helping hand for relief and development but USAID had smartly covered these grants under their "OCENA FREIGHT FOR GOODS MOVEMENT" program to show that these grants were used for the freight of relief material!!
How convenient!!
12. Media Propaganda
USAID Funds GLOBAL MEDIA FORUM which is largest media non profit to ensure democratic rights and human rights in global media landscape. Its sister concern INTERNEWS funds Advocate Prashant Bhushan's Sambhaavanaa Institute which is a leftist cabal den of propaganda.
13. The Cabal
Here are the names of the resource people with Sambhaavnaa Institute of Public Policy and Politics:
1. Yogendra Yadav - Expelled from AAP, AAP Founder, Swaraj Abhiyan Co-founder along with Prashant Bhushan G
2. Harsh Mander - Center for equity studies, Project Karvan E Mohabbat
3. Medha Patkar -
Founder of National alliance for people's movement, Ex AAP member, the Goldman Environmental Award in 1992, Goldman Environment Award 1992,
Green Ribbon Award for Best International Political Campaigner by BBC, 1995, M.A.Thomas National Human Rights Award from Vigil India Movement, 1999,
and the Human Rights Defender‟s Award from Amnesty International, Germany, Deenanath Mangeshkar Award, 1999, Mahatma Phule Award, 1999,
Mother Teresa Award for Social Justice, 2014
4. Akash Banerjee
- Youtuber, runs a channel Bhakt Banerjee, in July 2024 The US Embassy Delhi hosted him for a social media workshop "Influence to Impact".
5. Prateek Sinha - Altnews cofounder
6. Soni Sori
- Naxalite activist from Chhatisgarh, winner of Frontline defender award given by Front Line Defenders.
(FLD) is an international human rights organisation founded in Dublin in 2001.
FLD is funded by the Ford foundation and Open Society Foundation of George Soros.
7. Nandini Rao - No saffronisation of education activist
8. Ravish Kumar - Ex NDTV, Youtuber
9. Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
- Only journalist mentioned in Hindenburg report on Adani
10. Thomas Franco
- Ex SBI, EX All India Bankers federation president, full time advisor to Center for financial accountability (Adani and Ambani project watchdog)
11. Kavita Krishnan
- Politburo member of the Communist Party of India Marxist Leninis, pro China narrative peddler
12. Vijayan MJ
- secretary-general of the India chapter of the Pakistan India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy
13. Nityanand Jayaraman
- Anti industrial projects activist
14. Bezwada Wilson
- Raman Magsaysay award 2016, Ashoka foundation senior fellow, Dalit rights activist
15. Akash Poyam - Assistant editor The Karvan magazine
16. Atreyee Mazumdar
- Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto
Associate Professor (Social Sciences), National Law School of India University, Bengaluru
17. Madhuresh Kumar
- Works for National alliance for people's movement
18. Vijoo Krishnan
- General Secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha. He is a central committee member of Communist Party of India (Marxist).
one of the core organisers of Farmer protests
19. Nikhil Dey - works for the MKSS (Mazdoor Kishan Shakti Sangthan)
20. Himanshu Kumar - Anti selva Judam Naxal legal help and rights activist from Dantewada, Chhatisgarh now settled at Delhi
21. Prashant Bhushan
14. The Snakes
USAID funds Transparency international which is a joint project of the OCCRP and The US State department.
Transparency international has repeatedly flagged India as violator of CSO/ NGO rights post Indian Govt's 2020 revision of the FCRA act to tighten the noose around foreign funding of Indian NGOs.
You can see in the below chart all the usual suspects are there.
15. The relatives
USAID funds Transparency international.
USAID Funds OCCRP.
USAID funds SEWA bharat.
USAID is connected to GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE INTIATIVE of Sam Pitroda.
What does that mean?
Propaganda in the name of aid and charity.
16. The Table
Transparency international hosts anti India environmental activist and India chapter head of "Fridays for future" project of Greta Thunberg.
Disha Rajput shared the table with USAID head Samantha Power.
Who funds Transparency international?
USAID.
17. The Terrorist
Who funds Helping hand for relief and development?
USAID.
Now Helping hand for relief and development is a partner of IDSB which is global coalition of Islamic NGOs and it is based in Turkey.
IDSB (ISLAM DUNYASI STK'LARI BIRLIGI) is a collaborator of Kashmiri American Council founded by ISI Stooge and Anti India Kashmir propaganda creator Ghulam Nabi Fai who is a partner of Ghazal Habib's Friends of Kashmir another anti India ISI funded Kashmir propaganda front in the U.S.
18. The den
US State department funds NAMATI.
USAID funds NAMATI through its pass throughs SALL FAMILY FOUNDATION and CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION.
NAMATI is connected to USIAD chief Climate Coordinator Gillian Caldwell through the GLOBAL Witness where Gillian Caldwell is CEO.
USAID funds Sahjivan and Kach Mahila Vikas Sangthan in Gujrat, India.
Kuch Mahila Vikas Sangthan hosts another small NGO KHAMIR under its wings.
KHMAIR is a project of Mallika Sarabhai's Nehru Trust for Developemnt.
Farah Naqvi sister of Saba Naqvi is a board member of KHAMIR and LUCH MAHILA VIKAS SANGATHAN both.
Farah Naqvi was also a member of Sonia Gandhi led NAC in UPA 2 Govt.
19. The Hitjob
When allegations were made against Adani enterprise by a Swiss Investigative portal Gotham City about tax evasion prosecution in Switzerland, it came to the light that this portal is funded by EU Journalism Fund and International Press Institute.
Who funds EU Journalism Fund?
USAID
Who funds International Press Institute?
CIA
(You can refer to the part 15 of this series)
20. The Message
As per USAID philosophy 😉
Always remember that
21. Summary
Below Chart shows how US blackmailed India through USAID and PL 480 FOOD FOR PEACE agreement to devaluate rupee in 1966 during the tenure of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. This sums up how US uses agreements and grants as a tool of economic blackmail and fleecing.
India was forced to devaluate rupee wrt USD by 57%..!!
PS - In previous parts of the thread it was mentioned that rupee was devaluated 37%. Please read that as 57%.
PS - India's first three five-year plans are also called CIA Plans!!
Reason for the same is influence and policy control of The Ford Foundation, USAID, USIS, USOM, Rockefeller Foundation, CCF and World Bank due to their presence in every aspect of the Indian economy and Indian polity.
correction - In part 10 please read the year as 2020. It is wrongly mentioned as 1920.
footnote 1 - Part 1 of the chart in the part 10 of this thread
footnote 2 - Part 2 of the chart in this thread's part 10
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🚨The Climate Policy Nexus - A Web of Economic Hit Jobs on India 🧵
🚨The undercover world of Ali Tauqeer Sheikh, Elizabeth Colburn and Gaurav Gogoi
1⃣Do know that all the questions Gaurav Gogoi asked regarding the water resources and river water hydroelectric projects in the Parliament are now under investigation??
2⃣Do you know that More than Pakistan - India nexus of Ali Tauqeer, this web has been spun around India by creating a PAKISTAN - NEPAL - BANGLADESH AXIS of Climate Policy - Political Instability - River Water as Weaponized Diplomacy ??
✨Lets unravel the sinister plot concocted by Ali Tauqeer through Elizabeth Colbourn to target India's energy self sufficiency, Global standing in Climate Geo-Politics and Hydro-electric Infrastructure development on India's borders.
🔥Read On.....
1. The Conduit
㊙️The contemporary landscape of South Asian geopolitics is increasingly defined by the role of non-state actors who operate at the intersection of environmental advocacy, international finance, and clandestine political influence.
㊙️At the epicenter of this nexus is Ali Tauqeer Sheikh, a Pakistani national whose professional trajectory as a climate change expert has served as a conduit for extensive liaisons with high-level think tanks, non-profit foundations, and political entities in Pakistan, the United States, and India.
📨Ali Tauqeer Sheikh is Pakistan's go to man when it comes to seek funding in the name of climate action for bailing out beleaguered economy of Pakistan fleeced by Its Pakistani Army Generals and Corrupt Politicians.
2. The Begging Bowl of Climate Activism
Ali Tauqeer Sheikh has meticulously constructed a profile as Pakistan’s preeminent authority on climate finance and sustainable development. His institutional power base is rooted in Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) Pakistan and the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), both of which have been instrumental in bridging the gap between Western donor interests and Pakistani national policy.
The Genesis of LEAD Pakistan and Rockefeller Lineage
LEAD Pakistan, headquartered in Islamabad, was established in 1995 as part of an international network founded by the Rockefeller Foundation in 1992.
Under Sheikh’s leadership as founding director and CEO from 1995 to 2019, the organization transitioned from a capacity-building initiative into a powerful policy engine. It is essential to recognize that LEAD was not merely a local NGO; it was the Pakistani node of a global environmental governance structure. The Rockefeller Foundation’s role in founding LEAD provided Sheikh with immediate international credibility and a gateway to the American philanthropic elite.
The institutional strength of LEAD Pakistan was further augmented through its partnership with the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN). Established in 2010, CDKN is a global alliance funded primarily by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada.
Sheikh’s appointment as the Regional Director for Asia for CDKN from 2009 (per some records) to 2016 allowed him to oversee projects in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal, effectively creating a regional "epistemic community" under his leadership.
Sheikh’s professional identity is deeply intertwined with the Pakistani state’s strategic planning. He has served as the Advisor (Climate Change) to the Planning Commission of Pakistan and was the principal author of Pakistan’s 2021 Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC).
His influence extends to the highest levels of executive decision-making, evidenced by his role as the head of the Prime Minister’s Task Force on Carbon Markets and the principal architect of the National Climate Finance Strategy launched at COP29 in Baku.
Perhaps his most strategically significant role is his representation of Pakistan on the international Board of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (LDF).
This fund, which secured nearly USD 800 million at COP28, is a cornerstone of Pakistan’s diplomatic efforts to secure financial transfers from developed nations under the rubric of climate justice. Sheikh’s role in this board positions him as the "go-to man" for the debt-trapped Islamabad administration to plead for international financial assistance.
The truth of Karl Marx💢🚨
This is what happens when you are intellectualy absolutely corrupt to the core . Like M.K. Stalin you install the statue of Karl Marx!!
Karl Marx wrote his Communist Manifesto using 600 gold currency coins funding from his Friend Friedrich Engels.
Karl Marx started writing his magnum opus in the library of his distant cousin Nathan Rothschild with Nathan Rothschild issuing a Cheque of grand sum of .oney to Karl Marx to fund his word.
Karl Marx fathered an illegitimate son, Frederick Demuth (born 1851), with the family’s housekeeper, Helene "Lenchen" Demuth.
Helene Demuth gave birth to Frederick Demuth on 23 June 1851 in the Marx home of 28 Dean Street, Soho
To protect Marx's marriage and reputation, his close collaborator Friedrich Engels claimed paternity, a secret that emerged through a deathbed confession to Eleanor Marx.
In the pic - Helene Demuth the maid who fathered illegitimate son of Karl Marx named
1. In his 1962 biography of Marx, Werner Blumenberg, who at the time was head of the German department of the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam, quoted excerpts from a letter he had discovered in the IISH’s archives which revealed that Marx had fathered an illegitimate son.
The life long benefactor and friend of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels confessed to the youngest daughter of Karl Marx, Eleanor Marx about this long kept secret at his death bed.
In the pic - Frederick Demuth, illegitimate son of Karl Marx
2. The letter, dated 2 and 4 September 1898, was written by Louise Freyberger née Strasser, Engels’s former secretary and the first wife of Karl Kautsky, to August Bebel, the chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, and told an improbably melodramatic tale of a deathbed confession by Engels that Frederick Demuth, who had been born out of wedlock to Marx’s housemaid Helene Demuth in 1851, was in fact Marx’s own son.
FROM THE EPSTEIN FILES:
Unsealed Doc EFTA02420041 confirms: In 2010, Kapil Sibal & Sam Pitroda attended a high-society Gala in NYC hosted by the International Institute of Education (IIE).
🧵
Tickets: $1,250. Tables: $12,500.
Why does this matter?
Look at who funds the IIE to run "India Centric" programs:
🔹 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Health "Capacity
Building")
🔹 Ford Foundation ("Social Change" Leaders)
🔹 George Soros’ OSF (Civil Society Scholars)
🔹 Rockefeller Foundation (Smart Power India)
🔹 Carnegie Corp (Academic Partnerships)
and
Henry Luce foundation (Luce Scholars India)
Mr. Sibal was "honored" at this event. Connecting the dots yet? 🦅🇮🇳
1. Mukund Rajan (Chairman, Board of Directors)
The most significant "connection" is familial and social rather than professional.
Family Tie (Raghuram Rajan): Mukund Rajan is the brother of Raghuram Rajan (former RBI Governor). Raghuram Rajan.
2. Jaideep Mukherji (CEO)
The connection here is functional and governance-based. Under his leadership, Smart Power India has partnered with state governments to implement energy projects, including those ruled by the Congress party.
Rajasthan Government Partnership (Ashok Gehlot Era): SPI worked closely with the Congress-led Rajasthan government (under former CM Ashok Gehlot) to modernize the state's power distribution.
Chhattisgarh Government (Bhupesh Baghel Era): SPI has engaged with the Chhattisgarh Renewable Energy Development Agency (CREDA) during the Congress administration to promote decentralized renewable energy (DRE) solutions for rural livelihoods.
2. Luce Scholars Program (India Placements)
Radhika Shroff
Role: Member, Board of Directors (Henry Luce Foundation).
Significance: Appointed to the board recently (August 2025), she is a key voice in the foundation's governance. Notably, she is herself an alumna of the Luce Scholars Program (placed in Thailand previously). She is a Managing Director at Nuveen (a major investment management firm).
he Henry Luce Foundation does not have its own office in India. Instead, the Luce Scholars Program is administered in Asia by The Asia Foundation. The "leadership" that manages the India placements—selecting host organizations, mentoring scholars, and handling logistics—sits within The Asia Foundation's New Delhi office.
Nandita Baruah
Role: Country Representative, India (The Asia Foundation).
Responsibility: As the head of the India office, she oversees the team that facilitates Luce Scholars' entry into India. Her team is responsible for identifying the "host organizations" (NGOs, think tanks, cultural bodies) where scholars work.
Centre for Policy Research (CPR) and SEWA (Self Employed Women’s Association host Luce scholars in India for mentorship programs.
🚨 BREAKING: The Activist Industrial Complex has found a new enemy.
It’s not a politician.
It’s not a guru.
It’s code.
Ladies and Gentlemen, say Hello to "The Brahmin AI." 🤖🙏
The new chapter in the global caste narrative has dropped, and it’s more ridiculous than you think.
A Thread 🧵👇
#AI #Caste #Tech
The Set Up
Finally, after classifying all the lesser mortals under the sky, the "Seculars," the Anti-Caste Activists, and the Narrative Builders have run out of humans to cancel. So, they turned to the servers.
Apparently, Python scripts have a Varna now. 🐍📉
The Core Argument
Let’s check: How much BRAHMIN is the AI❓
Is ChatGPT waking up at 4 AM to do Sandhyavandanam?
Does Gemini refuse to eat onions?
No.
But according to the new "Academic Polarization" playbook, if an algorithm prioritizes logic, pattern recognition, and merit, it is inherently oppressive.
The "Why" ?
Why is this narrative being pushed? Because Tech was the last frontier based on competence, not identity. By labeling AI as "Casteist" or "Brahminical," the goal is simple: Control the input.
Rig the output.
Import the "Reservation" model into the Neural Networks. 🧠🚫
The Punchline
"The Brahmin AI" is a boogeyman created to keep the grievance industry alive.
If the AI gives you facts you don't like, it’s not an error. It’s "Digital Untouchability."
The mental gymnastics required to link Silicon Valley code to Ancient Indian social structures deserves a Gold Medal. 🥇🤸♂️
The Call to Action
Make no mistake. This isn't about equality. It's about colonizing the digital space with the same broken politics that ruined the physical one.
Don't let them gaslight you.
RT if you think Code has no Caste. 🔄
Like if you trust Math more than Activists. ❤️
1. The trail
Historically if you look at the kind of damage which has been done by the leftists academics to India's institutes is unfathomable.
Pre 1947
We had European scholars/ academics writing Christian missionary versions of our scriptures.
Post 1947
We have had our indigenous brown sepoys who took great pride in the desecration and distortion of of our scriptures, our social ethos and eidos while terming Ramayana and Mahabharata as a myth.
The latest UGC Equity guidelines was just another extension of this Academic - Activist - Institutional - Industrial Complex.
Just for a memory shake up, check the below list and see for yourself!!
Do our children deserve this kind of divisive, polarizing rants in our academic institutes in the name of research funded by Tax Payor money??
All of these 86 publications are based on:
1. Ramayana Mahabharat are a myth. 2. Upper caste dominance in academic institutes 3. Upper caste academic depriving lower caste academics from resources and faculty positions 4. Upper caste academics control everything in academics
2. The Loudmouths
Even if you check left aligned media platforms, they are super busy in driving this propaganda to the hilt and with total shameless propaganda bordering very close to the proverbial profanities!!
🚨Explosive Detsils on Mira Nair, mother of New York socialist fraud Zohran Mamdani🧵
Mira Nair married her teacher in Harvard.
Guess what was the name of the teacher and her first husband??
- Mitchell Epstein
Looks like Mira Nair had a special fetish for the Epstein Surname!!
Though Mitch Epstein is not all related to Jeffrey Epstein.
2. Meera Nair founded Salaam Baalak trust an orphan children non profit post her su cess with movie Salaam Bombay.
This trust is headed and run by her mother Dr Praveen Nair.
3. Though Salaam Balak trust seems to be a any other non profit but actually if you explore its funding trends you will understand that it is a well entrenched well funded entity.
1. IMPACT – USAID/FHI Street Children HIV Prevention
Duration: ~August 1999 to June 2002
Amount: $104,728
Funded by: USAID (through Family Health International)
2. Samarth – USAID/FHI Demonstration Project
Start: October 2006
Duration: Project continued several years into the 2010s (through ~2011) as a USAID/FHI demonstration project on HIV/AIDS.
Funding: USAID funds channeled through FHI (exact grant amount not disclosed publicly in SBT reports).
🧵 THE ANATOMY OF LAWFARE: The Indira Jaising & Anand Grover Files
How do you dismantle a nation's sovereignty using its own laws? 🇮🇳⚖️
A deep dive into the funding, foreign connections, and "anti-establishment" networks of India's most powerful legal power couple.
A thread on Money, Influence, and Dissent.
Read on..........
1. The Money heist
Between 2006-2015, the Lawyers Collective (LC) received approx. INR 32.39 CRORE in foreign contributions.
Who paid?
🇺🇸 Ford Foundation: ~₹7.2 Cr
🇨🇭 Open Society (Soros): ~₹4.1 Cr
🇺🇸 Levi Strauss: Part of ~₹15.3 Cr US total
Why? "Secularism" & "Policy Advocacy."
Much has been written about the foreign funding received by Indira Jaisingh and her husband Anand Grover through their non profit "The Lawyers Collective", especially form The Open Society Foundations but two organisations where both husband and wife were members and fierce advocates are:
1. Committee for Release of Political Prisoners (CRPP)
The CRPP is a "frontal organization" for the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist).
Investigations by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and state police forces (e.g., Telangana Police) have found that the CRPP receives funding and directives directly from the CPI (Maoist) to carry out activities that align with the banned outfit's agenda.
The NIA has labeled the CRPP, along with other organizations like the Persecuted Prisoners Solidarity Committee (PPSC), as a frontal organization of the CPI (Maoist) in its charge sheets
Rona Wilson, the Public Relations Secretary of the CRPP, was arrested in 2018 under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) for alleged links to the CPI (Maoist) and for facilitating funding for their activities. Balla Ravindranath, the general secretary, has also been named in police affidavits describing the organization as a Maoist front.
2. Indian People's Tribunal (IPT)
The Indian People's Tribunal on Environment and Human Rights (IPT), also known as the Independent People's Tribunal, was established in 1993 as an initiative of the Human Rights Law Network (HRLN) and the Socio-Legal Information Centre (SLIC). Consequently, its operations are supported by the funding ecosystem of its parent bodies.
both the Human Rights Law Network (HRLN) and the Socio-Legal Information Centre (SLIC) have received massive funding from the Open Society foundations of George Soros till 2016 just like Indira Jaisisngh's The Lawyers Collective.
3. THE ASG CONFLICT: SERVING INDIA OR DONORS?
While Indira Jaising was the Additional Solicitor General (ASG) of India (2009-2014), representing the sovereign state, she allegedly received ~₹96 Lakh from foreign funds.
Violating FCRA? The Home Ministry thought so. You can't serve the Govt and foreign donors simultaneously.