National Endowment for Democracy Defensiveness of Being a CIA Cutout Raising Red Flags

On April 4, 2023, National Endowment for Democracy (NED) VP of Communications and Public Engagement, Leslie Aun, contacted Alex Rubinstein to request a phone conversation about an article he published at The Grayzone the day before.

His report detailed the open justification of the terrorist bombing of a cafe in St. Petersburg, Russia by a top staffer of Bellingcat, which receives significant sponsorship from the NED, which functions as the regime change arm of the US government. In the article,

Alex described the NED as a “CIA cutout,” which clearly displeased Aun and prompted her appeal for a call.

On April 6, Aun joined Alex and Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal for a 40-minute-long phone conversation, during which we challenged her on the NED’s lengthy history of supporting violent insurrectionists in countries where the US seeks regime change, and on the role of the CIA in founding the NED to openly conduct the work it used to do covertly.

More links in the video description on this topic as well as who and what the NED is (think covert election operations, globally)…