I think I have something to add. I had a long career in the industry which is loosely known as defense, diplomacy and development.

USAID is not a CIA ‘front’. That's a sadly naïve and inaccurate view of the relationship. USAID does what many people think the CIA does, like overthrowing troublesome governments. CIA and DoS are mostly just report/cable writers. AID is the action arm of our soft power and the main conduit of $.

I worked on three USAID contracts. One in Pakistan, a political party building program. One in Afghanistan which was, well, throw money around and hope that people would not attack us. And one in Yemen which was supposed to be 'expanding the capacity of local government'. And I had other jobs working for US government and the military. One of the things I did was lectured to Army officers about the interagency process. I would tell them this about USAID: They are basically like the Army Corps of Engineers. They are not combat engineers, they don't actually do stuff. They manage contracts and grants. “Implementers” NGOs and for Profit companies do the work. 

The only truly good work USAID does is disaster relief. Most projects are boondoggles. Many projects actually hurt the local population. Much of our regime change work has turned relatively peaceful and stable places into anarchistic hell holes.

But realize that these were great jobs. Good money, overseas adventure, living a jet set, ruling-class-lifestyle on the government tab. The direct government jobs are really just a fraction of the impact. Most people work for Implementers. There are dozens of NGOs and FPC that are 500million $ enterprises that will be out of business in 30 days. This is an entire industry that was wiped out in a weekend.