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Inside USAID: A 27-Year Odyssey of Foreign Assistance, Corruption, and Chaos – Clifford Brown
This conversation is for anyone who has ever wondered what USAID actually did—and why its sudden destruction in 2025 will impact the world for years.
Clifford Brown knows this terrain intimately. A partner in a Beverly Hills commercial law firm, he gave up his career and his dream home over the ocean to join USAID in 1987—and spent the next 27 years in the trenches of foreign aid, living through civil chaos in Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Kyrgyzstan, Guinea, and beyond . He served as Mission Director to Guinea and Sierra Leone, Country Representative to Kyrgyzstan, and Deputy Mission Director…
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