How the USAID Created Barack Obama

Without USAID, There Would Have Been No President Obama

I have been working my way through an excellent book called The Manufacturing of a President: The CIA’s Insertion of Barack H. Obama, Jr., into the White House by Wayne Madsen. Madsen is a former National Security Agency (NSA) analyst and did a deep dive into who Obama was, is, and the forces that shaped him. No one on earth is like Barack Obama, and I don’t say that as a form of praise. It was like he was manufactured in a laboratory or created for a specific purpose. Scratch the surface on Obama and you wonder where he was actually born. Dig a little deeper and you wonder where his mother was actually born. The truth about Barack Obama may never be fully known, but we do know the official (and phony) narrative.

The serendipity of my reading this book at this time is that Madsen’s book constantly talks about the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) but without realizing the full horrific depths of the agency. USAID is not only involved throughout the life of Obama, USAID funds many organizations that also helped Obama. Without USAID, Obama would not have been possible.

Needless to say, the many happy-slappy books about the boy born from an “unlikely love story” between a man from Africa and a girl from Kansas is totally fabricated. So is the diligent Harvard student, the zealous community activist, the patriotic mixed-race young man man who truly wanted hope and change. Obama the heterosexual husband, Obama the gifted orator, Obama the man who wanted harmony … all fake. But you knew all that.

Let’s start with his maternal grandparents. As I’m reading Madsen’s book—about CIA operatives and missing records, spies and the Indonesian coup—I keep stumbling on the word: USAID. In case you’ve been asleep the past few days, that’s where Elon Musk and his merry band of boy-geniuses are currently camped out, exposing frightfully large sums of U.S. taxpayer money being thrown at idiotic causes that nobody voted for.

(This makes me pause for a second. The first American Revolution in 1776 was fought when colonists were levied taxes on tea and whiskey that they deemed unfair. Stealing taxpayer money from Americans can be a very dangerous business.)

Brought to You By USAID

Let’s start the story with a man named Stanley Armour Dunham who as a young 20-something was in military intelligence during World War II. That’s hardly scandalous, being a spy during a war—so was Julia Child. But while Julia decided to wise up and go to cooking school, Stanely Armour Dunham apparently stayed in the intelligence services. He had a cover job as a “furniture salesman” and he traveled from town to town over the years to get jobs in furniture sales. Retail sales jobs are a frequent cover for spook enterprises. (Most people who work in intelligence do not go into the CIA building for work; they have “cover” jobs and professions, sometimes even friends and families that form part of their cover network.)

After a stint on Mercer Island in Washington state, Stanley Armour and his wife Madelyn settle in Hawaii with their daughter, who is also named Stanley—she’s officially named Stanley Ann Dunham but we’ll call her Ann for this article. She went by many names in her short life (she died of cancer at age 52). She used five different first names that I have found (Stanley, Ann, Anna, Stanley Ann, and Ann Stanley) and four different surnames (Dunham, Obama, Soetoro, and Sutoro) in varying combinations. I’m going to call her Ann Dunham.

Barack Obama described his mother in his autobiography (and who writes an autobiography before they get famous? Dreams from My Father was written in 1995 when nobody on earth had ever heard of Obama). Barack said his mother was a free-spirited hippie, born in Kansas and eager to set out and change the world with her good vibes. Of course, Barack also says he was born in Hawaii. Leaving the latter aside for a moment, it is quite possible Ann Dunham was born in Beirut, Lebanon. The Kansas story is more hype. There are three reasons to think Ann Dunham wasn’t who Obama tells us she was.

• While records are sparse, sketchy, and sometimes deleted about Stanley Armour Dunham, a good case can be made that he was stationed in Beirut, Lebanon, after the Second World War. He was in military intelligence, Beirut was a key diplomatic outpost at the time, and it was in the era when Lebanon was a relatively safe, refined, and beautiful country. There is a picture from that time showing Stanely Armour Dunham, his wife Madelyn, and a girl who looks like Ann Dunham, allegedly taken in Beirut

• In the photo, the girl I think is Ann is wearing a school uniform from a prestigious private Beirut school

• Ann spoke fluent French. Ann studied a number of languages and spoke not just Dutch and Indonesian but some obscure Indonesian dialects as well. But there is no record of her ever having studied French and her work never would have required her to learn French. Yet there are sporadic reports of Ann’s fluency in French. That would be odd for a girl born and raised in Kansas, but it would be normal for the child of a diplomat educated in Beirut and attending a private school there—which at the time spoke French

The Dunham family spent most of their life in Hawaii. The University of Hawaii was a hotbed of CIA activity and had numerous organizations in Honolulu that were either funded directly by USAID or by USAID-adjacent outfits such as the Ford Foundation. While Stanley Armour Dunham said he was a furniture salesman, he was actually working on a variety of government type programs. There is a photo of him welcoming a group of young Africans to a special CIA-funded program, including Barack Obama, Sr. This would be an odd occasion for a furniture salesman to attend. (By the way, Barack Obama, Sr. had intelligence connections, too, but that’s another story for another day. A good rule of thumb is that anyone related to former President Obama was working in one way or another for an intelligence service.)

Allegedly, one of the many tasks that fell to Stanley Armour Dunham was keeping his eye on a poet, activist, pornographer, and known communist named Frank Marshall Davis. Stanley Armour Dunham, a white guy and furniture salesman, pals around with intellectual radical creep Frank Marshall Davis, a Black man, for many years. Everybody, including former President Barack Obama, thinks Stanely Armour Dunham and Frank Marshall Davis are genuinely good friends. Some say that Davis became more than just a friend of the Dunham family and may have been the future President’s biological father. That, too, is another story for another day.

Meanwhile, Madelyn Dunham, who previously had only held jobs such as factory work or being a housewife gets a high-profile gig at a bank in Honolulu. She’s one of the first females ever in the country to be named the vice president of a major bank at that time. Remember, into the 1960s and early 1970s, married women could not even open bank accounts in their own names without their husband’s consent. Yet Madelyn Dunham is a hot-shot at a major bank. Of course, this bank did a lot of the financials for USAID and its various projects. That means they moved money around to and from USAID causes.

In other words, Madelyn Dunham sat at the switch for moving money in and out of the country for USAID-backed outfits. I’m not saying this is all she did and I can’t even prove she did that, but it was done at her bank while she was there.

Ann Dunham allegedly met Barack Obama, Sr. at the East-West Center in Honolulu, a USAID-funded organization, ostensibly aimed at promoting better east-west relations. For Ann Dunham, it was like her personal matchmaking service—she met both of her two husbands there. It is almost as if the East-West Center was promoting honeypot operations, which is where international figures working for various intelligence outfits to support the United States get paired up with a handler in the form of a U.S. citizen, also working for intelligence. It’s like a variation on that old Mad Magazine comic, this time Spy-Marries-Spy.

Cultural Anthropologists Wanted

The really interesting part of Madsen’s 2012 book describes how the CIA at the time was very interested in “cultural anthropologists.” You wouldn’t think this was a profession in such urgent demand. But cultural anthropologists were much desired in the 1960s and 1970s—they were sometimes specifically required for certain intelligence operations.

Ann Dunham commenced her university career studying mathematics but switched over to anthropology and earned her degrees in that subject. That seems an improbable shift—most people who study math are not that interested in cultural anthropology and vice versa. I’d almost go so far as to say the kind of person who studies cultural anthropology does so in order to avoid math.

The reasons that cultural anthropologists were so highly valuable to the spy business are many and sort of obvious when you give it a little thought.

• A cultural anthropologist is an educated, harmless-looking person who comes to an obscure corner of the world and starts asking nosy questions of people. But the anthropologist is generally regarded as having a valid and even noble interest in the local culture. They usually know the local language and try to learn the customs and are eager to talk to everybody. Most of the time, the local population is respectful, even cooperative. This is a great cover story

• Cultural anthropologists seem harmless. If you see a photo of Ann Dunham in her later years, she seemed like a nice middle-aged lady. She was short, stout, wore loose dresses and flat sensible sandals. Sometimes she wore sun hats. Nobody looked less like a spy than Ann Dunham, except maybe Julia Child

• Cultural anthropology is work nobody really sees you do. True, Ann Dunham did actual work in this field. She kept notebooks, conducted interviews, and she eventually wrote a scholarly thesis (on blacksmithing in Indonesia, of all things). The Smithsonian has cooked up a display of her anthropological contributions. They’re nothing grand. But her work gave her an excuse to be where the intelligence agencies wanted her to be, and she had no office hours or specific commitments. Nobody in the neighborhood could ever really assess whether she was working or not. It was as close to a no-show job as you can get and still get your monthly checks from the Ford Foundation or the Rockefeller Foundation or whatever other USAID agency was paying your expenses

• Ann Dunham lived most of her life outside the United States, mostly in Indonesia but she also resided for year in Pakistan. Pakistan seems an odd choice for someone whose alleged life work was Indonesia handicrafts and blacksmithing. However, cultural anthropologists can have a range of cultural anthropological interests that go unquestioned

The USAID paid for Ann’s career. As for her first marriage, it was hardly a marriage at all. Ann Dunham gave birth to a son; if the boy’s father was Barack Obama, Sr., he was not present at the birth nor is there any record that the couple ever shared the same address. Obama Senior moved to Boston a couple of years later, then back to Africa, where he died in a car wreck.

Meanwhile, Ann Dunham returned to the East-West Center and picked up Hubby #2. Lolo Sotoero was a man of many connections (you can tie him to global oil, an Indonesian massacre, and the Bush family as well as U.S. intelligence agencies). Lolo was called back to Indonesia by the military, Ann went with him, and suddenly she became a highly respected and much sought-after cultural anthropologist interested in Indonesian handicrafts. The Soetoro family lived in an upscale house with servants (young Barack grew up with a live-in nanny who was a transvestite named Turdi) and had what at least one observer called an “unconventional marriage.” Some biographers pass this off as owing to Ann’s free-wheeling hippy-dippy flower-child personality, but the marriage was not so unconventional that Ann and Lolo did not have a child. Their daughter Maya was born in Indonesia about three years later.

Barry in Indonesia

Now here is where the story gets weird. Barack—know in Indonesia as Barry Soetoro (which may have been his legal name)—went to school in Indonesia for a few years. One of the schools was Muslim, the other Catholic. As with all Barack Obama records, there is a lot of screwiness to them with dates and places and records that contradict each other.

In 1971, Ann Dunham sent her only son all by himself at the tender age of 10 on a plane from Indonesia to go back to Hawaii. Mother and son never lived together again except briefly. Unlike Barack Obama, Sr., who had almost no contact with Barack Obama, Jr., except for one well-photographed visit, Ann Dunham maintained lifelong contact with her son. They allegedly traveled together to Pakistan, maybe India, maybe Kenya, and maybe Ghana together, but the Obama records are deficient in details. But after the age of 10, Ann Dunham wanted little Barry to be raised by her parents—and her parents were working for intelligence in Hawaii. Ann knew she was second-generation intelligence, and I guess she wanted the family business to carry on to her offspring.

In the many biographies about Barack Obama, there are a variety of reasons given for Barry’s abrupt exile to Hawaii. Having a father who deserted him, it had to be traumatic for a mother to ditch him, too. By the age of 10, Barry Soetoro had seen both of his parents desert him. The father skipped out on him, but why did Ann abandon her son to her parents when she was able to care for her other child, Maya?

In one account, Ann Dunham was concerned that her son receive the best education possible, which would not have happened had he stayed in Indonesia. Once he landed back in Hawaii, his grandparents enrolled him in a super-pricy prep academy called Punahou School. Tuition for one year today at Punahou runs over $30,000 a year and that sum does “not included student activity fees.” So how did a hippie-anthropologist and her furniture salesman father manage to foot the bill to send this boy to one of the most expensive private schools on earth? Hello, USAID. Actually, I have no idea how they paid his exorbitant tuition, but it was paid. And remember, Madelyn Dunham was a hot-shot vice president at a bank. Barack Obama went to the most expensive schools in the world, even though he portrayed his family as being middle class.

Other accounts said that Barack Obama had never really mastered the Indonesian language, and Ann was concerned that this was hindering his basic education. Other stories said that Ann wanted her son to be raised as an American and learn American English, American history, and live in an American family. This would be helpful if you were raising a future spy.

A more ominous account said that Ann Dunham’s second husband (who also died young at age 52) was a violent man, and Ann wanted to protect her son by getting him as far from Lolo as possible. Barack Obama himself never said much one way or the other about Lolo Soetoro, despite sporting his surname for a while.

The quirk in the story is this: Ann Dunham had another child named Maya Soetoro. Maya was nine years younger than Barack, I mean Barry, so at the time Barry left home, Maya was just a toddler. But Ann never sent Maya away. Maya remained in Indonesia with Ann Dunham and Lolo Soetoro and when they divorced in 1980, Ann took Maya. Whatever pushed Barry out of the nest was not an issue for Maya. Maya followed her globe-trotting mother around the world with no problem. It was Barry who was delivered up to the spies that raised Ann Dunham.

It makes me wonder if Ann Dunham was sending her “special” son back to her parents to be trained in the family business. And maybe not just to be a boots-on-the-ground data collector like Ann. Maybe something bigger.

Can a “president” be manufactured? Did we have a Manchurian Candidate President?

A Super Career for a Woman with No Credentials

Meanwhile, Ann Dunham got herself a cush job at the Indonesia-America Friendship Institute, which was a USAID project. This means her salary—and I can’t find out what it was—was paid by USAID, i.e., taxpayers. She also managed to flit easily from one position to another at heritage foundations, historical societies, and other cultural organizations. Most of them were funded by USAID. In fact, it would be hard for a person to be a cultural anthropologist and sail off to foreign nations, landing one prestigious gig after another, without a little help from someone. In Ann Dunham’s case it was the USAID.

Later, Ann Dunham got involved in some academic adventures (she sometimes taught classes), spearheaded microfinancing projects for women, and then all of a sudden she was a “rural industries consultant,” with a career at the Indonesian Ministry of Industry’s Provincial Development Program in Jakarta. Guess who funded that organization? Why, USAID.

And Ann Dunham got involved with banking, too, following in her mother’s footsteps. I guess her early degree in math came in handy for her later accounting work. How many cultural anthropologists living abroad can grab prestigious jobs like that? Ann never worried about where her next job was coming from. They arrived like clockwork.

Not enough? The Ford Foundation (funded by the USAID) set up an office in Jakarta for the employment of women in Southeast Asia. Ann Dunham nabbed the job of program officer (she worked there 1981 to 1984). The guy at the Ford Foundation who gave her the grant was a guy named Peter Geithner, whose son Tim was later U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under Barack Obama. So USAID got Ann Dunham a no-show job through a guy that her son later rewarded with a Cabinet position.

It’s the Democrat circle—one hand funds the other.

The Strange Life of Barack Obama

Later on, Barack Obama went to Occidental University, Columbia University, and Harvard University. Not bad for a guy with no money, no connections, and reputedly little interest in school. Most people would have a hard time getting into these schools, but Barack Obama (who by his own admission spent a lot of high school years smoking pot) practically had the door opened for him. Tuition? No problem. Entrance exams? No problem. Course work? No worries. This would be impossible for any other kid who grew up partly in Indonesia and was being raised by his aging grandparents, one of whom was a furniture salesman.

Unless he had intelligence ties.

And don’t bother looking for his school records, you won’t find them. More than one person has said that although Obama reports to have attended these schools, even graduated from them, others there at the same time with the same course of study and professors have never seen him.

In his years after Occidental College but before Chicago, Barack Obama worked for the Business International Corporation (BIC) in New York. Founded in 1953, this organization published newsletters and reports based on global financial data. He worked there about a year before he quit, saying he found the work “boring.” I cannot substantiate it, but Madsen says that BIC was getting USAID funds. Think of it as the accounting arm of the CIA. I think the part that Barack Obama disliked was not the USAID or intelligence aspect of the efforts, it was having to sit at a desk for a specific time period and do work.

Fast forward. Obama, BIC credentials and Harvard diploma in hand, lands in Chicago (a town he had no ties to) where he got hooked in tightly with the Chicago power brokers and the Chicago political machine. Here is where he met Valerie Jarrett, who has been at his side ever since. Here is where he met and married Michelle, deeply embedded in the Chicago network and a suitable spouse. Children appeared.

Why go to Chicago at all? I don’t think he went there to be an activist, since even in his heyday, he was not a very active activist. He was there to meet the right people, to get the right backing, and to shore up the connections that would propel him into the White House, like a bag of dog poop pitched onto the front porch.

Barack Obama is third-generation intelligence. Now if you go along with Madsen’s book and its speculations, he claims that Barack Obama was “manufactured” to be President and to carry out a specific intelligence-supported agenda.

It’s not just that we voted for him. We created him.

Thanks, USAID!