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The Bush Administration is funding Reporters Without Borders
http://pasadenanewprogressive.blogspot.com/2008/04/bush-administration-is-funding.html

I have been investigating Reporters without Borders ever since they performed a "media propaganda siege" in my city, Pasadena California, with their ugly, disruptive protests of the Beijing float in the 2008 Rose Parade.

The fact that they are also very involved in the torch rally protests really worries me! This group has been verified as accepting money from a propaganda wing of the U.S. State Department (NED). Their suspicious activities in Cuba, Haiti and Venezuela have been reported on.

And then, on Friday, this news appeared - now they are conclusively linked financially to the Bush Administration!

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Breaking news:

This news item appeared last week:

Source: MSNBC

BREAKING NEWS: White House says a presidential aide has resigned after engaging in improprieties using USAID grant money

updated 22 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - The White House says an aide to President Bush has resigned because of the alleged misuse of grant money from U.S. Agency for International Development.

Presidential spokesman Scott Stanzel says the former aide, Felipe Sixto, had been a special assistant to the president for intergovernmental affairs. Stanzel said Sixto was promoted to that position on March 1 and that he came forward on March 20 to tell his superiors about the alleged wrongdoing.

Stanzel said it involved improprieties involving the use of grant money and Sixto's former employer, the Center for a Free Cuba. Stanzel says the matter has been turned over to the Justice Department.

excerpt from MSNBC:

"An aide to President Bush has resigned because of his alleged misuse of grant money from the U.S. Agency for International Development when he worked for a Cuban democracy organization.

The Center for a Free Cuba describes itself as an independent, nonpartisan institution dedicated to promoting human rights and a transition to democracy and the rule of law in Cuba."

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excerpt from the Diana Barahona article [which is reprinted on my blog]:
http://www.counterpunch.com/barahona05172005.html

"Thierry Meyssan, president of the Paris daily, Red Voltaire, published an article in which he claimed Menard had negotiated a contract with Otto Reich and the Center for a Free Cuba (CFC) in 2001. Reich was a trustee of the center, which receives the bulk of its funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development."

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excerpt from the Jean-Allard article:
http://www.cuba-solidarity.org/news.asp?ItemID=457

“The Center for Free Cuba is an organization created to overthrow the Cuban Revolution and restore the Batista regime via its representatives embedded in the Bush government. It is presided over by the owner of Bacardí Rums, directed by former terrorist Frank Calzón and it is attached to a CIA office, Freedom House,” he wrote.

According to Meyssan, a journalist who is president of the prestigious Red Voltaire (www.redvoltaire.net), the contract was signed in 2002 when Reich was representing the US government as special envoy to the Western Hemisphere.

“In 2002, Reporters Sans Frontières signed a contract with the Center for a Free Cuba with unknown terms, and later received an initial subsidy of $24,970 euros. That subsidy increased to $59,201 euros in 2003 and its amount for 2004 is unknown,” the reporter wrote."




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excerpt from the Reporters Without Borders website, financial disclosure information, year 2006:
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=22503


Private donors:

Donations by private foundations (the Soros Fondation, the Center for a Free Cuba, the National Endowment for Democracy and the Fondation de France)

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