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DataRepublican (small r)@DataRepublican · Nov 27, 2025

🧵 THREAD: What is the International Rescue Committee? Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the accused, worked for the International…

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This thread argues the International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a CIA front, citing evidence including: nearly $1 billion in U.S. government grants, awards to George Soros and Samantha Power, leadership with ties to intelligence agencies (founder of Radio Free Europe, MI6-connected staff), and historical connections to CIA director Allen Dulles. The author points to the organization's heavy U.S. government funding and personnel with intelligence backgrounds as suspicious.

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    🧵 THREAD: What is the International Rescue Committee? Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the accused, worked for the International Rescue Committee. He is also being reported as working for the CIA. Given this, is the International Rescue Committee a CIA front? I'm going to do a deep dive here. As always, patience as I pull together the thread:

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    The first thing that jumps out when analyzing the IRC is its government grants. Out of its nearly 1.5 billion dollars, it has nearly a billion in grants. Their USAID grant in Afghanistan went towards "Accessible and Quality Basic Education (AQBE) Activity." Yeah, sounds like intelligence work.

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    If I'm reading this right -- I am not sure I am reading this -- it seems like almost all of their government grants are from the USA. This is fairly unusual for a charity NGO of this size; often humanitarian NGOs will be co-financed by foreign governments.

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    One of the receipients of the IRC Freedom Award is ... George Soros, in 1993. Because of course. This was at the peak of Soros' influence with the State Department - when he was advising NED on Eastern Europe strategy.

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    Wait, Soros got the award twice! Again in 2013. Then Samantha Power in 2020. You can't make this up.

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    The timing of Samantha Power is interesting -- if I am inferring timelines correctly, then the awards are given *within* the year, not after... in November of that year, specifically. So Samantha Power would have been given this around November 2020, before she entered the Biden administration and having left Obama's office for 4 years. Her resume does not give a clear rationale why.

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    On the private donation front, IRC gets major funding from Catholic Charities.

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    IRC has had to pay penalties for their misconduct in other countries.

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    IRC's head, David Milibrand, was Foreign Secretary for Tony Blair. MI6 (the British version of CIA) reports to the Foreign Secretary. This is getting more and more interesting.

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    Their COO advised UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office, which used to house MI6 according to Gemini. Can't make this stuff up.

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    Here's a letter from IRC to Allen Dulles -- the infamous CIA director. It references working with the Ford Foundation and thanks Dulles for intervening in their funding.

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    I am seeing awards for International Rescue Committee that do not appear to have been cancelled. @DOGE_GSA

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    National Endowment for Democracy (our CIA quango) presented a 2005 award to IRC's then-President, John Richardson. He served as CEO of Radio Free Europe, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational & Cultural Affairs, and was a founding staff member of the U.S. Institute of Peace, as well as a founding board member and chairman of NED. I've seen enough. IRC is a CIA front.

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    @DOGE_GSA I've seen enough. IRC has got to be a CIA front. Just too many intelligence presidents. Have a Happy Thanksgiving!