CIA ‘propaganda arm’ linked to Pride events around the world

Organizations backed by the United States government and which are believed to be fronts for the CIA are funding “Pride” events around the world.

US has been funding ‘Pride’ for years

This is not the first year the US State Department has been fueling LGBT programs, events, and activities around the world. The State Department’s Global Equality Fund, for example, distributed €464,301.41 ($504,988.14) in 2022 to ILGA Europe, an organization which funds and organizes Pride events throughout the continent. ILGA Europe is also heavily funded by George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, the European Commission, and the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Tbilisi Pride

This fiscal year, an organization called Tbilisi Pride is also being funded by the United States. Tbilisi Pride is responsible for organizing Pride events and propagating gender ideology in Tbilisi, Georgia. In addition to donations from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the State of the Netherlands, Tbilisi Pride also received $97,000 for 2023-2024 from the National Endowment for Democracy.

CIA front?

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is believed by some to be a CIA front. The organization receives around $100 million annually from Congress and has been shaping world events since the 1980s, though it vehemently denies being tied to the CIA. 

NED is known for having funded rebel forces in Nicaragua during the eighties and having trained and funded protesters during the Arab Spring in 2011, among other regime changes around the world.

Sofia Pride

Between 2016 and 2020, NED also funded the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, alongside George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, the European Union, UNICEF, UNHCR, and other organizations. The Bulgarian Helsinki Committee is one of the organizers of Sofia Pride, which bills itself as the largest Pride event in Bulgaria.

Sofia Pride also received a $15,000 grant from the State Department in March for its Pride event scheduled for June 22nd.

USAID: The CIA’s ‘propaganda arm’

But perhaps the most aggressive US funding for gender ideology around the world comes from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). USAID openly funds LGBT activities around the world. According to the organization, it is actively spreading LGBT propaganda by “working in the education sector to integrate lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI+1) considerations into programming and across the Program Cycle.”

USAID is also widely believed to be the “propaganda arm” of the CIA. 

In an interview last year, Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. explained how American journalists were once historically “compromised” by US agencies, which included signing “secrecy agreements” with the CIA. This was the objective of Operation Mockingbird, a program in which the CIA used news media to propagandize the American people.

But in 1975 came the Church Committee hearings, which investigated abuses by the CIA and other intelligence agencies. An outcome of these hearings was that the CIA agreed to never again use American journalists for propaganda purposes. Instead, the CIA uses international media operatives.

“The CIA promised that it would no longer compromise American journalists,” Kennedy said. “It continued the program to compromise journalists all over the world, and today the CIA is the biggest funder of journalism in the world. They fund it through USAID.”

Pride week in Brno

This year, the State Department also spent $5,500 in taxpayer dollars to fund Pride week in Brno, a city in the Czech Republic. The event, which took place earlier this month, featured LGBT reading for children, an LGBT picnic for youth, and an LGBT-themed worship service.

Deystvie

The State Department has also distributed $7,500 to an organization called Deystvie for an LGBT film festival in Bulgaria.

Australia: Better Together

Additionally, the State Department contributed $5,250 to Better Together, an Australian LGBT organization which will be holding a conference next month dedicated to shaping public opinion and government policies on gender ideology.