Transparency International
front?International non-governmental organization
| Transparency International link () Powerbase Sourcewatch Website | |
|---|---|
| File:Transparency International Logo.png | |
| Abbreviation | TI |
| Formation | 1993 |
| Founders | Peter Eigen, Michael Hershman |
| Headquarters | Berlin, Germany |
| Leader | Transparency International/Managing director |
| Type | International non-governmental organization |
| Interests | corruption |
| "the global coalition against corruption" | |
Transparency International (TI) is according to itself an non-governmental organization monitoring and indexing corruption worldwide. In reality, the organization is deeply corrupted, being a tool for Western governments' foreign policy objectives[1][2] and whitewashing big corporations.[3]
History
Transparency International was officially established by Michael Hershman, an officer of US military intelligence. He is furthermore a Centre for International Private Enterprise director and today Head of Recruitment of FBI informants as well as Managing Director of the private intelligence service Fairfax Group.
Transparency International is first and foremost a cover for economic intelligence activities by the CIA. It is also a media tool to compel states to change their legislation to guarantee open markets.[4] In addition it is a pressure tool in regime change operations, where official enemies of the US get maximum corruption score.
UK Branch
The UK chapter of Transparency International sets out its priorities as:
- combatting corruption in the UK;
- reducing the UK’s role in fuelling corruption overseas; and,
- combatting corruption in the international defence and security sector.[5]
Acting Executive Director is Duncan Hames and 46 staff members are listed here.
Funding
Despite describing itself as an NGO, Transparency International’s funding is dominated by the governments of the United States and the European Union and their cutouts. Money sources include the US State Department, the European Commission, the US State Department’s National Endowment for Democracy (NED), Britain’s Department for International Development and the Open Society Foundations, owned by billionaire George Soros.
Other big funders are multinational companies. The London office of TI whose bankers are HSBC, get donations from the likes of Shell BV and GlaxoSmithKline with other investors in the business forum via a 'Premium Membership' costing up to £20,000 each that includes Barclays plc, Lloyds Bank and RBS. Others included (either now or previously) are British American Tobacco (BAT) and Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC).[6]
The UK and Brazil branches of TI received $1.3 million in grants in September 2025 from the U.S. State Department's international narcotics and law enforcement arm INL.[7] TI UK was awarded a $580,000 grant from the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) for "sponsored research."[8] Transparency International received £3 million in funding from the British foreign office on December 4, 2025.[9]
Jack Poulson wrote how
Transparency International’s US branch was disaccredited in 2017, partly as a result of the organization providing a leadership award to one of its many U.S. corporate donors, which included the weapons manufacturers Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, as well as the technology giant Google
Transparency International's New Zealand branch further confirmed to Radio New Zealand in 2023 that it had received funding from the country's signals intelligence and foreign intelligence agencies.[10] Its Australia branch was also revealed to have been led from 2006 until 2016 by the commercial lawyer Michael C. Ahrens, who was simultaneously a member of the board of directors of the Australian branch of the American data analytics and intelligence contractor Palantir (beginning circa June 2010) and of the New Zealand branch (beginning October 27, 2015).[11]
TI Brazil’s president circa July 2021 until September 2023 was likewise Marco Gomes, a technology executive who spent more than five years as a deployment strategist at Palantir[12][13]
References
- ↑ https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-wests-weaponization-of-corruption-indexes-thailand-categorized-as-a-corrupt-failed-state/5550012
- ↑ https://www.rt.com/op-ed/375658-populist-soros-transparency-international-corruption/
- ↑ https://www.globalresearch.ca/latest-corruption-index-does-not-reveal-britains-real-place-in-global-crime-wave/5504916
- ↑ https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-national-endowment-for-democracy-ned-the-legal-window-of-the-cia/5542401
- ↑ "Transparency International UK - Our Work"
- ↑ https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-mask-of-deception-corporations-vs-civil-society/5626597
- ↑ https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_SINLEC25GR0184_019
- ↑ https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_HQ0034251E034_097
- ↑ https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/uk-summit-worldwide-corruption-foreign-secretary-5HjdP5S_2/
- ↑ https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/494351/astonishment-at-lobbyists-advising-transparency-international-on-ethics-and-rules-of-their-own-industry
- ↑ https://michaelwest.com.au/corruption-busters-double-life-with-secretive-spy-tech-firm/
- ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/mvtgomes/
- ↑ https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/transparency-international-accepted