… After His Murder, Aims Changed.

What Changed on November 22, 1963 Besides Everything? After JFK’s assassination USAID essentially became a money-laundering operation for new powers.

“Records of the Agency for International Development (RG 286)

“On November 3, 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed the Foreign Assistance Act reorganizing the structure of U.S. foreign assistance programs. By executive order, he created a new agency, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The records transferred to the National Archives from USAID comprise Record Group 286.

“USAID unified existing aid efforts from its predecessor agency, the International Cooperation Administration (RG 469), along with the work of the Development Loan Fund, some functions of the Export-Import Bank, and distribution activities of the Food for Peace Program.

“The agency focused its early efforts on technical and capital assistance and shifted, in the 1970s, to basic human needs: food and nutrition, population control and planning, health, education, and human resources development. Later, the focus turned to stabilizing free markets and economic growth channeling assistance through private voluntary organizations. In the last two decades, USAID has emphasized sustainability, democracy, and recovery from and rebuilding after war….”

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