COLOR REVOLUTION SPECIALISTS fired by Donald Trump in the USAID crackdown are turning on the US administration, NOTUS reported today. 根據 NOTUS 今天報道，在美國國際開發署的鎮壓行動中被唐納德·川普解僱的顏色革命專家正轉而反對美國政府.
And they are using their underground operational techniques at home to undermine the administration in Washington DC.
Under names such as USAID and NED, US government employees spent decades training and financing anti-government groups to achieve “regime change” from Latin America to the African continent to the Middle East to Hong Kong under the guise of “democracy building”.
They trained and financed civil groups, and worked with western mainstream journalists to demonize independent governments around the world, with the aim of replacing them with “pro-democracy” (“pro-Washington”) leaders.
USING THEIR SKILLS FOR USE AT HOME
“Some of the democracy-building experts President Donald Trump fired this year from the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department are now reapplying the skills and knowledge they built up over decades to undermine Trump’s power,” said the report by Notus, an independent journalism group based in the US.
“For years, these officials were stationed across the globe actively supporting opposition movements in autocratic nations. Now they’ve got time, a network of former colleagues and a growing sense of moral indignation,” reporter Jose Pagliery wrote.
‘A VERY FOOLISH THING’
One federal official told Notus that the Trump administration had done “a very foolish thing” in shutting down USAID. Requesting anonymity, he said: “You just released a bunch of well-trained individuals into your population. If you kept our offices going and had us play solitaire in the office, it might have been safer to keep your regime.”
His choice of words sends a hidden message: a 101 color revolution technique is to encourage journalists to describe favored pro-western governments as “governments” and all others as “regimes”.
CIA TECHNIQUES
Another recycled step the group is using is described in CIA pamphlets as Simple Sabotage.
People still in government employment look co-operative but work slowly and inexpertly so that basic procedures grind to a halt. “Widespread practice of simple sabotage will harass and demoralize enemy administrators and police,” says the CIA document.
OVERTURNED GOVT IN MIDDLE EAST
Non-cooperation is “a fluid type of resistance”, a source told Notus, a publication run by an acclaimed independent journalism training center called the Allbritton Journalism Institute.
Notus said that the main group of the anti-Trumpers now working in the US had been on the American government payroll backing anti-establishment groups in Latin America and African nations, and some were involved with “an ultimately successful uprising in the Middle East”.
In other words, some have direct experience in successfully overturning governments.
ON THE RECORD
A related group willing to go on the record is DemocracyAID, led by Danielle Reiff and Ro Tucci, both former USAID staff. Tucci was previously the director of the USAID Center for Democracy, Human Rights and Governance, the news outlet said.
Participants in this cluster started by campaigning to retain overseas projects, but then switched course to backing groups like the “No Kings” march organizers. “The focus quickly shifted from salvaging the foreign assistance infrastructure to redeploying inside the United States,” Notus reported.
DemocracyAID now has 200 volunteers. Their Instagram account @friendsofUSAID, has more than 88,000 followers.
ANTI-CHINA GROUP ‘BACK IN ACTION’
But people in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Eastern European countries should not let down their guard.
While USAID, Radio Free Asia, and Voice of America have been almost entirely disbanded, the National Endowment for Democracy is back in action.
The group, which has been demonizing China from Hong Kong for more than 30 years by financing “pro-democracy” activists, initially saw its funds cut at the start of this year—but it was re-funded in March after special pleading by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a life-long Sinophobe.
When Hong Kong introduced a western-style security law forbidding the taking of cash from hostile overseas groups in 2020, many NED-supported activists moved overseas, rebranding themselves as “pro-democracy” exiles.
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