Yasha has published rubbish trying to link the Open Tech Fund/Radio Free Asia to the CIA for years. It's not. To be honest he continues to be pushing such dange

Yasha has published rubbish trying to link the Open Tech Fund/Radio Free Asia to the CIA for years. It's not. To be honest he continues to be pushing such dangerous false conspiracy theories that risk real people, doing real work. I work on Umbrella (https://www.secfirst.org https://www.secfirst.org), a free open source project to help journalists and activists learn about and manage digital and physical security. It was initially funded by OTF. I am from Ireland, i've worked my entire life in human rights, including campaigning against CIA black sites, Iraq, NSA/GCHQ spying etc (along with the global range of issues from China to migrants). Why would I or anyone of the other hundreds of projects, work with OTF if somehow it was a CIA front? In our case, the linking of projects like ours to stupid conspiracy theories like this has endangered myself and some team members. We've had doxing and death threats from people from countries as varied as Ireland to Vietnam trying to say we are CIA/US stooges because of this crap.