The Asia Foundation was a creation of the CIA, and to this day remains a front for the US State Department and the corporate financier interests of Wall Street and London. Their attempts to overthrow the sovereign institutions of Thailand by backing the regime of Thaksin Shinawatra has required them to conduct extensive research into the population of Thailand in order to find the strengths and weaknesses of both the Thai establishment, and their proxy, the Shinawatra regime.
To that end, they have conducted several “national public perception surveys of the Thai electorate,” (2010′s full .pdf here), revealing what must have been for them and their proxies, very unpleasant realities within Thai society.
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