Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Documents Show State Department Links to George Soros' Open Society Foundation

Judicial Watch released 49 pages of new State Department documents showing top Soros representatives in Romania collaborating with the State Department in a program jointly funded by, among others, Soros's Open Society Foundations - Romania and USAID, called the "Open Government Partnership."

The documents were obtained thanks to a March 2018 Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed against the U.S. Department of State and USAID after it failed to substantively respond to an October 2017 request called the Center for Public Innovation, which describes itself as a "Spin-off" of Soros' Open Society Foundation Romania.

On April 19, 2016, Wetzler emails Romanian chancellery official and Open Government Partnership participant Radu Puchiu regarding a meeting with an "Open Society Romania colleague" regarding the possibility of Romania committing to open educational resources programs.

Since 1990, the Soros 's Foundation for Open Society was one of the main donors in Romania and other former communist countries, financing sociological research, education, social inclusion, good governance, civic culture and integrated community intervention.

"These government documents detail a close working relationship between the State Department and the Soros foundations' operations in Romania and Europe," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

In April 2018, Judicial Watch published an in-depth study of Soros' Open Society Foundation activities in Guatemala.

In a March 2017, letter to former Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, six U.S. Senators, Inhofe, Tillis, Cruz, Perdue and Cassidy (R-LA called on the secretary to investigate the relations between USAID and the Soros Foundations and how U.S. tax dollars are being used by the State Department and the USAID to support left-of-center political groups who seek to impose left-leaning policies in countries such as Macedonia and Albania.


https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-documents-show-state-department-links-to-george-soros-open-society-foundation-romania/

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