Mike Benz
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The Atlantic Council has seven CIA directors on its board.
It receives annual funding every year from the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and the Marines.
annual funding from the National Endowment for Democracy, which is a CIA cutout.
It receives millions of dollars from U.S.
taxpayers.
It was also partnered with Burisma, by the way, this NATO think tank.
It has seven CIA directors on its board.
And lo and behold, it is serving as the deputy arm for
of demores in Brazil, even creating network maps of who to be censored.
Same thing with institutions like the Wilson Center.
Same thing with institutions like the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which, by the way, is the institution that was run from 2014 to 2021 by a man named Bill Burns.
You may be familiar with that name.
Bill Burns is the current director of the CIA.
He left the Carnegie Endowment to run the CIA.
And the Carnegie Endowment has its fingerprints all over this Brazil censorship situation.
And it gets worse than that.
We have formal government programs now that are...
essentially coordinated, quarterbacked by the State Department, but are sort of run at the operational level and funded by the State Department, USAID, and the National Endowment for Democracy, which is this CIA cutout, you know, basically created in 1983 when our then CIA director was complaining that the CIA had lost too many powers after the Church Committee hearings in 1976.
So we needed to do CIA work through a non-CIA entity called the National Endowment for Democracy.
Hunter Biden was on the chairman's advisory board, by the way, of the DNC branch of that.