The most reckless use of taxpayer-funds under the United States Agency for International Development was revealed as it became known that the agency paid college tuition for a jihadist who later became a central al Qaeda figure.

Recently resurfaced documents obtained by Fox News show the embattled agency paid American-born terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki's tuition for Colorado State University - years before he was killed in an American drone strike.

Investigative journalists Catherine Herridge and Pamela Brown unearthed and posted to X over the weekend, shows that a USAID form dated June 1990 outlined al-Awlaki was reportedly granted funding to attend the college by fraudulently claiming he was a Yemeni national and qualified for an exchange visa.

The filing states that AID provided 'full funding' for al-Awlaki as a J- 1 scholar due to his alleged status as a Yemeni citizen. The State Department awards J-1 scholarships to overseas students who would like short term visas.