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It's helpful when commentators mention USAID's origins being established in the 60s to peddle influence and undermine communism.
Then when the Soviets fell, the agency switched its focus to peddling liberal democracy influence, which soon morphed into exporting our own gay race communism agitprop.
Zero chance it was ever used to undermine Socialism, and a low chance it was used to undermine Communism.
I'm sure it was meant to help the intelligence agencies establish infrastructure, but that's way different from undermining Socialism/Communism.
Check out the book "None Dare Call It Treason" published prior to the 1964 election. The John Birch Society was pointing out the enormous amount of funding that was going to Socialist and Communist governments even then, while we actively (openly) opposed Communism. Infiltration in the US State Department was rampant according to the Venona Records (30% of their employees were informants one way or another to the KGB).
I guarantee you that the purpose of the agency (at large) was to develop Democratic/Fabian Socialism. That was opposed to Communism, but only just so.