The Afghanistan Papers

According to the author, what ties did President Obama have to the CIA as noted in the nonfiction book, The Afghanistan Papers?

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According to the author, Obama, like his predecessor George W. Bush, appears to have deep family connections to the CIA. This has been reported by reputable journals such as the Monthly Review. His mother, Ann Dunham, worked for various U.S. government agencies and NGOs funded by the Ford Foundation, Asia Foundation, Development Alternatives Inc., and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) – all of which have been revealed through Freedom of Information Act to have been fronts for CIA operations at various times. Under the guise of academic anthropology her research was funded in Indonesia, Ghana, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, and Thailand. There is also a trove of credible evidence linking Obama’s maternal grandparents to CIA operations in Hawai’i and suggestions that Barack Obama Sr. was recruited by the agency as an asset in Kenya. Moreover, Ann Dunham’s second husband Lolo Soetoro was a high-ranking member of the military regime in Indonesia installed by a CIA-backed coup against the Non-Aligned Movement icon Sukarno. The two largest oligarchic families that funded Obama’s political rise, the Pritzkers and the Crowns, also have extensive CIA links.

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