The United States notoriously uses humanitarian and religious foundations, as well as journalists and non-governmental organizations (NGO), to gather intelligence on other countries, an author and radio host in Chicago says.
“America will go to any means to demonize or commit subversive actions against countries that it wants to take action against,” Stephen Lendman told Press TV on Friday.
“America notoriously uses civilian individuals or organizations as spies to serve US interests, having them perform activities other than their normal ones,” Lendman said.
“NGOs, most of them, are notorious for being profit making organizations instead of so-called non-profit organizations,” he added.
A new report reveals that the US government has used a Christian NGO as a front for an espionage program to spy on North Korea.
In 2004, the Pentagon launched a secret program to gather intelligence from inside the East Asian country that has long been a source of great concern to Washington, The Intercept reported.
A Christian charity organization called the Humanitarian International Services Group, or HISG, was able to finally make way into North Korea through offering much-needed humanitarian aid to Pyongyang, according to the NGO’s documents obtained by The Intercept.