"The Asia Foundation (TAF) was established in 1954 to undertake cultural and educational activities on behalf of the United States Government in ways not open to official U.S. agencies."[11] The Asia Foundation is an outgrowth of the Committee for a Free Asia, which was founded by the U.S. government in 1951.[12] CIA funding and support of the Committee for a Free Asia and the Asia Foundation were assigned the CIA code name "Project DTPILLAR".[13]
In 1954, the Committee for a Free Asia was renamed the Asia Foundation (TAF) and incorporated in California[14] as a private, nominally non-governmental organization devoted to promoting democracy, rule of law, and market-based development in post-war Asia.
In 1966, Ramparts revealed that the CIA was covertly funding a number of organizations, including the Asia Foundation.[11] A commission authorized by President Johnson and led by Secretary of State Rusk determined that the Asia Foundation should be preserved and overtly funded by the US government. Following this change, The Asia Foundation was classified as a private, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization under the section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.[15] The foundation began to restructure its programming, shifting away from its earlier goals of "building democratic institutions and encouraging the development of democratic leadership" toward an emphasis on Asian development as a whole (CRS 1983).
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THE ASIA FOUNDATION
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Asia_Foundation#History
In the above Q-Drop mentioned CIA Document Number
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp84b00049r001303260026-4
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP84B00049R001303260026-4.pdf