Thank you, Fedora. That's indeed the murky part. I had heard (from a fairly good sources) that Geithner and Stanley Ann were on close enough terms for him to have brought her into the fold.
I can personally tell you that today's USAID is a far-out Leftist operation whose typical political slant is a lot closer to Bill Ayers' than my own. NGO staffs are even moreso.
Thanks again Fedora, you have many many pieces of puzzles that have long baffled me!
Thank you as well. If there is additional information about the nature of the Geithner-Dunham relationship, that would certainly be significant.
There has been a lot of bureacratic struggle over control of USAID since the Nixon administration, often over its relationship to the Executive Branch and the State Department. Nixon and Congress (with a strong antiwar bloc led by Ted Kennedy, etc.) fought over USAID’s direction from 1970 to 1973. In 1978 Senator Hubert Humphrey introduced legislation to roll USAID into a new cabinet-level agency. This general period was concurrent with the post-Watergate shakeup of the intelligence community, which vastly increased the degree of left-wing influence in such agencies. It might be informative to pinpoint where Dunham’s group fit into the landscape of those bureacratic battles.
The other place I’d look to shed light on this is the Indonesian antiwar movement and its overlap with the Vietnam antiwar movement. If I find anything interesting on this I’ll ping you.