Infiltrating America: How the United Arab Emirates Launched an Unprecedented Political Interference Campaign in the United States

For years, one foreign dictatorship has overseen an unprecedented interference effort aimed at the heart of the U.S. political process, unleashing squadrons of lobbyists while launching illicit campaigns that reached directly into the highest ranks of the American government. This dictatorship did so while bankrolling a broad array of American non-profits, including some of the U.S.’s leading think tanks, in a gargantuan effort at laundering the country’s reputation and directing American policy in the process. Along the way, this dictatorship has hired fleets of former American officials – especially military officials – to aid in its military aggrandize- ment, to both deflect criticism and strengthen the dictatorship’s hold on power.