The Trojan horse : a radical look at foreign aid / by Steve Weissman and members of Pacific Studies Center and the North American Congress on Latin America.

Introduction -- Inside the Trojan horse Steve Weissman Foreign aid: Who needs it? Steve Weissman Building the world bank Bruce Nissen The IMF and the third world Cheryl Payer An alliance for stability Steve Weissman Ford country: Building an elite for Indonesia David Ransom AFL -- CIA Lenny Siegel Postwar planning for South Vietnam Banning Garrett Herbert Hoover feeds the world Walter Cohen Food as a political weapon Steve Talbot Will the green revolution turn red? Harry Cleaver The future of military aid Lenny Siegel Police aid for tyrants Nancy Stein and Mike Klare

Conservatives condemn foreign as a big boondoggle, a socialistic give away; liberals blast it for propping up military dictators and entangling the United States in war. Few critics have been willing to see foreign aid for what it really is -- a sophisticated instrument of control. These studies, the result of careful research by young radicals, show in actual cases how those who give foreign aid use it to get what they want. They also reveal the inner workings of institutions and councils who devise the programs and integrate them with the nastier sides of foreign policy. --From the back cover