Foreign Agents Registration Act

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Foreign Agents Registration Act
John William McCormack (D-MA) on July 28, 1937
  • Committee consideration by House Judiciary, Senate Foreign Relations
  • Passed the House on August 2, 1937 (Passed)
  • Passed the Senate on May 18, 1938 (Passed)
  • Reported by the joint conference committee on May 23, 1938; agreed to by the Senate on May 27, 1938 (Agreed) and by the House on June 2, 1938 (Agreed)
  • Signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • on June 8, 1938

    The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) (22 U.S.C. § 611 et seq.) is a

    Department of Justice (DOJ) and disclose their relationship, activities, and related financial compensation.[2]

    FARA does not prohibit lobbying for foreign interests, nor does it ban or restrict any specific activities.

    criminal prosecution of subversive activities; since 1966, enforcement has shifted mostly to civil penalties and voluntary compliance.[7]

    For most of its existence, FARA was relatively obscure and rarely invoked;

    Trump administration.[7][9] Subsequent high-profile indictments and convictions under FARA have prompted greater public, political, and legal scrutiny, including calls for reform.[7][6]

    FARA is administered and enforced by the FARA Unit of the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section (CES) within the DOJ's National Security Division (NSD).[10][11] Since 2016, there has been a 30 percent increase in registrations;[7] as of November 2022, there were over 500 active foreign agents registered with the FARA Unit.[12]

    Background

    Foreign influence over American politics has been a recurring concern since the nation's founding.[13][14] In 1796, prior to his retirement from the presidency, George Washington warned about foreign nations seeking to influence both the American government and the public, namely through local "tools and dupes".[15] As early as 1808, the House of Representatives sought to investigate U.S. Army General James Wilkinson over allegations that he was a Spanish spy.[16] In 1852, a joint resolution was introduced in Congress that invoked Washington's warning and reaffirmed the U.S. government's commitment "'Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence'".

    Notwithstanding deeply rooted anxieties about foreign interference in American politics, it is not illegal for Americans to advocate for foreign governments or interests.[17] The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution enshrines the right to petition the government, including through political lobbying,[18] and makes no distinction between citizens and noncitizens.[17] As a result, efforts to address foreign influence have generally avoided censorship in favor of transparency.[19] Only in 1917, shortly after the U.S. entered World War I, did Congress make the first formal attempts to regulate or restrict foreign lobbying, taking into consideration measures that would require foreign agents to publicly disclose their advocacy and prohibiting noncitizen residents from acting as foreign agents without prior government permission.[20][21]

    History

    In response to the

    rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany, the House created the Special Committee on Un-American Activities to address the growing concerns about foreign propaganda in the U.S.[22][23] The committee was tasked with conducting investigations into three issues: "(1) the extent, character, and objects of Nazi propaganda activities in the United States, (2) the diffusion within the United States of subversive propaganda that is instigated from foreign countries and attacks the principle of the form of government as guaranteed by our Constitution, and (3) all other questions in relation thereto that would aid Congress in any necessary remedial legislation."[24]

    Pursuant to the findings and recommendations of the committee, FARA was enacted in 1938 to target foreign propaganda and political subversion, particularly from Nazi sources abroad;

    Department of State, which opposed having such responsibility on the basis that it lacked the resources and personnel;[27] consequently, authority over enforcing the act was transferred to the Department of Justice in 1942.[26] A "Foreign Agents Registration Section" was created within the DOJ's newly established War Division during World War II, and a total of 23 criminal cases were prosecuted on the basis of FARA.[26][28]

    Following the end of the war in 1945, enforcement of FARA declined significantly: Only two indictments were brought between 1945 and 1955, followed by nine "failure to file" indictments between 1955 and 1962.[29]

    1966 revision

    In 1966 the Act was amended and narrowed to emphasize agents actually working with foreign powers who sought economic or political advantage by influencing governmental decision-making. The amendments shifted the focus of the law from propaganda to political lobbying and narrowed the meaning of "foreign agent."[30] Consequently, an individual or organization could not be placed in the FARA database unless the government proved that they were acting "at the order, request, or under the direction or control, of a foreign principal" and proved that the alleged foreign agent engaged "in political activities for or in the interests of such foreign principal," including by "represent[ing] the interests of such foreign principal before any agency or official of the Government of the United States."[31]

    Due to the greater burden of proof placed on the government, until 2015, there only seven criminal prosecutions under FARA,[9] none of which resulted in a conviction.[30] However, a civil injunctive remedy also was added to allow the Department of Justice to warn individuals and entities of possible violations of the Act, ensuring more voluntary compliance while making it clear when the law has been violated. This has resulted in a shift from the law's initial focus on criminal prosecution, as the number of successful civil cases and administrative resolutions increased since that time.[26]

    1995 revision

    In 1995, the term "political propaganda" was removed from Subsection 611 following the 1987 Supreme Court case, Meese v. Keene, in which a California State Senator wanted to distribute three films from Canada about acid rain and nuclear war but felt his reputation would be harmed if the films were to be classified officially as "political propaganda."[28][32] The court affirmed an earlier lower court ruling in favor of one of the film's distributors in Block v. Meese.[33] The Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 provided exemptions under FARA for certain agents who register with Congress and are thereby permitted to lobby the legislative and executive branches directly.[34]

    Twenty-first century

    An online database of FARA registrants was added by the

    federal agencies, many of whom were not registered under FARA.[36]

    Following a spike in public attention, registrations, and prominent cases in 2016, Foreign Affairs magazine declared, "FARA is no longer a forgotten and oft ignored piece of New Deal–era reforms. Eight decades after being enacted, FARA is finally worth the paper it was written on."[8]

    Scope

    The Act requires periodic disclosure of all activities and finances by:

    • people and organizations that are under control of
      • a foreign government, or
      • of organizations or of persons outside of the United States ("foreign principal"),
    • if they act "at the order, request, or under the direction or control" ("agents")
      • of this principal or
      • of persons who are "controlled or subsidized in major part" by this principal.[31]

    Organizations under such foreign control can include political agents, public relations counsel, publicity agents, information-service employees, political consultants, fundraisers or those who represent the foreign power before any agency or official of the United States government.[31]

    The law does not include news or press services not owned by the foreign principal.[31] It also provides explicit exemptions for organizations engaged in "religious, scholastic, academic, or scientific pursuits or of the fine arts," as well as for those "not serving predominantly a foreign interest."[37]

    Examples of organizations lobbying on behalf of foreign governments are DMP International,[38] Flynn Intel Group,[39][40] DLA Piper, Dickens & Madson Canada, Invest Northern Ireland, Japan National Tourism Organization, Netherlands Board of Tourism and Conventions,[41] and Ketchum Inc.[42]

    Prominent cases

    There have been several dozen criminal prosecutions and civil cases under the Act.[43] Among the most prominent are:

    Organizations listed by the United States as foreign agents

    Related legislation

    FARA is one of several federal statutes aimed at persons called foreign agents.[64] The Taiwan Relations Act and the Compact of Free Association with the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands authorize the exemption of otherwise covered agents. Additionally, there have been laws targeting specific foreign agents, such as the closure of the Palestine Liberation Organization office in Washington, D.C. in 1981 and the prohibition against fundraising within the United States on behalf of certain violent groups opposed to the Israeli–Palestinian peace process.[65] The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 prohibits, among other activities, domestic fundraising that benefits foreign organizations designated by the United States as terrorist.[26]

    Allegations of selective enforcement

    Although the act was designed to apply to any foreign agent, it has been accused of being used to target countries out of favor with a given administration.[66] This was alleged by the Irish Northern Aid Committee in legal filings.[67] In the 1980s, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted operations against the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) allegedly based on selective enforcement of FARA.[68] It has been noted that during the same period it investigated CISPES, the FBI ignored possible FARA violations such as Soldier of Fortune magazine running back cover advertisements to help the Rhodesian national army recruit fighters.[69]

    In the 1950s President Eisenhower's administration repeatedly demanded that leaders of the American Zionist Council register as "agents of a foreign government."[70] In November 1962 Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy's Department of Justice ordered the American Zionist Council to register as a foreign agent under FARA because it was funded by the Jewish Agency for Israel and thereby acting on behalf of Israel; the Department of Justice later withdrew its demand.[54]

    A 2023 article in

    House Committee on Natural Resources initiated FARA inquiries against four environmental advocacy organizations, including Earthjustice and the Natural Resources Defense Council".[71]

    The American Zionist Council was reorganized as the

    William Fulbright and former senior CIA official Victor Marchetti unsuccessfully petitioned the Department of Justice to register the lobby under the Act.[72]

    The 2005 case,

    Keith Weissman,[73][74] raised the possibility that AIPAC would come under greater scrutiny by the Department of Justice. While Franklin pleaded guilty to passing government secrets to Rosen and Weissman, as well as to an Israeli government official,[75][76] the cases against Rosen and Weissman were dismissed and no actions against AIPAC were instituted.[72]

    Proposed reform

    There have been proposals to reform FARA to both improve its enforcement and modernize its provisions. In September 2016, the U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General released an audit of the National Security Division's enforcement of FARA.[77] The audit noted that NSD officials had proposed amending FARA to provide the Justice Department with civil investigative demand authority to better enforce the Act, and to eliminate the Lobbying Disclosure Act exemption to improve compliance.

    Nonprofits have complained that the broad definitions in FARA can capture much routine nonprofit activity, requiring them to potentially register as foreign agents.[78] In response, there have been proposals to amend the Act to define foreign principals under the Act to only be foreign governments or political parties or those operating on their behalf, as well as amend the current broad and unclear agency definition in FARA to instead mimic the Restatement of the Law of Agency, Third definition.[79]

    In July 2020, Attorney General William Barr warned U.S. companies and executives that advocating on behalf of Chinese government interests may violate FARA requirements.[80] In November 2021, Reuters reported that the Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C. sent letters to American executives urging them to lobby against bills seeking to enhance U.S. economic competitiveness, thereby sparking possible FARA concerns.[81]

    Chronology of amendments

    Chronology of amendments to the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938.

    Date of Enactment Public Law Number U.S. Statute Citation U.S. Legislative Bill U.S. Presidential Administration
    August 7, 1939 P.L. 76-319 53 Stat. 1244 H.R. 5988 Franklin D. Roosevelt
    April 29, 1942 P.L. 77-532 56 Stat. 248 S. 2399 Franklin D. Roosevelt
    August 3, 1950 P.L. 81-642 64 Stat. 399 H.R. 4386 Harry S. Truman
    October 4, 1961 P.L. 87-366 75 Stat. 784 H.R. 470 John F. Kennedy
    July 4, 1966 P.L. 89-486 80 Stat. 244 S. 693 Lyndon B. Johnson

    See also

    Notes

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