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The Paper Trail: How Washington Spent Over $325 Million Dismantling Bangladesh's Elected Government
Desk Report · 3:07 PM
There is a paper trail. It does not lie.While the international press was busy writing elegies for Bangladesh's "democratic uprising" in August 2024, a quieter story was accumulating in grant databases, congressional testimonies, and declassified program reviews. It is a story about money and about where that money went and about what happened to a country's elected government shortly after.
There is a paper trail. It does not lie.While the international press was busy writing elegies for Bangladesh's "democratic uprising" in August 2024, a quieter story was accumulating in grant databases, congressional testimonies, and declassified program reviews. It is a story about money and about where that money went and about what happened to a country's elected government shortly after. The numbers are public. The agencies are named. The awardees are on record. What has been missing, until now, is someone willing to read them together. The Scale of the InterventionThe United States government, through its various agencies, obligated approximately $572 million in foreign assistance to Bangladesh in fiscal year 2024 alone, the highest single-year figure in the country's history with the US, according to data on ForeignAssistance.gov last updated on 31 March 2026. That figure covers all sectors. But within it, a subset of programs, traceable through USAID, the Department of State, and the Department of Defense, is harder to categorize as simple development aid. According to a compiled…
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