While I have mentioned the links between the CIA and evangelical organizations, I overlooked this particular article which talks about the direct links between missionaries, US AID, the CIA and other intelligence agencies like the NSA:
http://www.finalcall.com/perspectives/sudan_cia05-15-2001.htm
The writer talks about the book "Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon : Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil" by Gerard Colby and Charlott Dennet. The book talks about the direct collaboration between the CIA, Nelson Rockefeller (Standard Oil) and William Cameron Townsend, founder of the ultraconservative Wycliffe Bible Translators to promote missionary expenditions into the Amazon during the Cold War era for corporate exploitation and promotion of US foreign policy objectives.
An interesting quote from the book:
"As souls ascended to heaven in the flight against Satan, many clergy became direct collaborators with the CIA. One member of the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA) was proud of this collaboration. William Carlsen, a missionary in northeastern Thailand, considered it " a privilege to share information with responsible agencies of the government where they seek us out." Carlsen gave an eight-hour briefing to the CIA on Thailand's tribal areas when he returned home for a furlough. Most C&MA missionaries did likewise, according to a CIA source. Most of the information gleaned was about people, their actions, opinions, and grievances."
The link between the CIA and missionary groups was quite often the US Agency for International Development (AID)!!! Some additional quotes from the book:
" William Cameron Townsend watched the controversy over the CIA's use of missionaries with curiosity and growing alarm. The CIA's penetration of religious missions, an issue previously overlooked by the media, was now, in 1975, making international headlines.
" The story had been building since 1970, when Dr. Eric Wolfe, chair of the American Anthropological Association's ethics committee, explained how anthropologists had been manipulated through the Chiang Mai Tribal Research Center in northern Thailand, which was funded through the Agency for International Development (AID). He also revealed that American missionary organizations had been drawn into this counterinsurgency operation as well.
"That June, President Nixon's director of AID, John Hannah, had admitted publicly that AID had funded CIA operations in Laos, and subsequent revelations pointed to CIA-AID collaboration in Ecuador, Uruguay, Thailand and the Philippines. These revelations could hurt all missionary efforts, but the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) was particularly vulnerable. Cam Townsend had been aggressively pursuing government funding for his Bible translators for decades, first from foreign governments and then from his own government. The amendment to the 1949 Federal Property and Administrative Services Act that allowed religious missions to take surplus U.S. government property abroad had even been called "Townsend's bill" in some congressional circles. By the 1960s, SIL was receiving a hefty income from AID indirectly through foreign governments that received U.S. foreign aid or directly through AID-funded programs in bilingual education and agricultural development cooperatives. This income was supplemented by surplus military equipment, including helicopters that were retired from Vietnam and donated to SIL. Evangelized pilots of these choppers became soldiers for Christ in the tradition of Dawson Trotman's Navigators. In Peru, after the nationalization of Standard Oil, the head of the U.S. Embassy's AID office even became a member of SIL."
Another article that provides a summary and more information about the book:
http://educate-yourself.org/lte/rockefellerandevangelism16apr08.shtml
And how does this relate to Pizza/Pedogate?
Just look at the Laura Silsby scandal:
Christian (Evangelical) Missionaries -> CIA -> USAID -> Latin America
And from what Boz Tchividjian of GRACE has mentioned in the past, the Christian mission field is a “magnet” for sexual abusers:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/billy-grahams-grandson-evangelicals-worse-than-catholics-on-sex-abuse/2013/09/30/f7c8c9f2-2a14-11e3-b141-298f46539716_story.html?utm_term=.3e9eebf85ed9
Are Christian missionary expeditions another front and avenue for child trafficking???
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UnicornsAndSparkles ago
Now we know where they got Avatar from.
garouwarrior ago
Are you talking about James Cameron's Avatar movie? Not sure what you mean.
Nevermind, that movie does seem to mirror that book, wow. You have to wonder if that really was the inspiration for the movie...