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2024-10-19 15:20:02 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: D68C69A92DF7B5B5361177787276F78F88C2E9B98239BB2B88697AA5EA280493
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According to nonprofit ProPublica and NED's own Director, quoted in The Washington Post, the NED was indeed a CIA cutout that created publications like The Kyiv Independent. The original links: https://www.propublica.org/article/the-national-endowment-for-democracy-responds-to-our-burma-nuclear-story https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/09/22/innocence-abroad-the-new-world-of-spyless-coups/92bb989a-de6e-4bb8-99b9-462c76b59a16/
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