"World Vision has, on a number of occasions, functioned as an intelligence-gathering arm of the US government. In the 1970s World Vision was charged with having collected field data for the CIA in Vietnam. After US troops left the region, World Vision played a major role in the administration of refugee camps. . . . World Vision also became a crucial player in the ‘yellow rain’ campaign to discredit the Soviet Union. . . . World Vision was drawn into the plot when the US embassy in Bangkok requested that the relief agency send medical samples taken from among refugees who claimed to have been poisoned by ‘yellow rain’. According to a missionary working with the refugees in Thailand, World Vision’s dependence on US grant money obliged it to comply with requests that refugee blood samples be sent to the US embassy rather than to more impartial investigators."
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Diamond, Sara. Spiritual Warfare: The Politics of the Christian Right. SouthEnd Press, 1989.quoted from Malhotra, R., NÄ«lakantan, A. (2011). Breaking India: Western interventions in Dravidian and Dalit faultlines
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World Vision International
World Vision International is an ecumenical Christian humanitarian aid, development, and advocacy organization. It was founded in 1950 by Robert Pierce as a service organization to provide care for children in Korea. In 1975, emergency and advocacy work was added to World Vision's objectives. It is active in over 100 countries with a total revenue including grants, product and foreign donations of USD $3.14 billion.
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