Just because the data records show that a certain amount of money went for some sort of half baked idea or project we cannot assume that’s where it ended up.
Some (many) of these “expenditures” and grants will turn out to be cover-ups for scams and we will eventually find that much of the money was actually intended to go elsewhere.
How much ended in the pockets and bank accounts of politicians and bureaucrats?
How much was actually re-routed to pay for political coups, regime changes, assassinations, terrorists, payoffs, kickbacks, scams, etc.?
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So would a comparison between usaid contracts and treasury payments show who really got the funds?
Good post—that is why it will take a lot of work to trace all the money through grants, then contracts, then subcontracts—with full audits of everything in all of them.
This is like a room full of gigantic puzzle boxes.
All the pieces are in there but it is going to take some hard work and determination to put the puzzles together.
The key is we know that corruption and subversion of both the US and probably every other country in the world was the goal of AID—and we know the general approaches they used to achieve those goals.
Imho we will also find that similar tactics were used in almost every other government agency in its sphere of influence.