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The Peace Corps is most emphatically NOT a spying or any other clandestine operation. There are legal restrictions that between the Peace Corps and both civili
by jonathankoren 7y ago
The Peace Corps is most emphatically NOT a spying or any other clandestine operation.
There are legal restrictions that between the Peace Corps and both civilian and military intelligence agencies. Since it’s founding in the 1960s, this has been a founding principle that ensures the safety of the Peace Corps volunteers.
- nraynaud 7y agoSome members have been individually asked by the local CIA station to enter a military base and try to report on the names and grades of people there. Not as an order from the peace corps.
- jonathankoren 7y agoYou’re going to need to put up credible citations for this, because this is an extraordinary claim.