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The Turkmen Union of UFOlogists, branded around UFO research but functioning as a civil-society and humanitarian organization, received USAID grants totaling up to $45,000 while simultaneously consulting with Turkmen military and government on 'mysterious occurrences' in Turkmen airspace.
This is diplomatic leverage through dual-use branding: credible civil-society work funded by the U.S., combined with intelligence-gathering function for a Central Asian ally. It demonstrates how UFO topics interface with statecraft.
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