Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World

13. Office of the General Council, U.S. Department of Education, “Institutional Compliance with Section 117 of the Higher Education Act of 1965,” October 2020.

14. Ibid.

15. Ibid.

16. Ibid.

17. Phillip Martin, “MIT Abandons Russian High-Tech Campus Partnership in Light of Ukraine Invasion,” All Things Considered, WGBH, February 25, 2022.

18. Jessica Shi, “MIT Removed Russian Oligarch Viktor Vekselberg from Corporation in April 2018,” The Tech, January 18, 2019.

19. Cooley et al., “Paying for a World-Class Affiliation.”

20. The database can be found at https://sites.ed.gov/foreigngifts/. There remains ample room to improve the database, such as adding contracts, detailing which entities formalized the donations, and noting any additional requests or meetings that accompanied the donations.

21. Office of the General Council, “Institutional Compliance with Section 117.”

22. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, “China’s Impact on the US Education System.”

23. Linda Yeung and Ng Kang-chung, “Harvard University Receives Largest Ever Donation from Hong Kong Foundation,” South China Morning Post, September 8, 2014.

24. Ben Rooney, “Harvard Gets Record $350 Million Donation,” CNN Money, September 8, 2014.

25. Cooley et al. “Paying for a World-Class Affiliation.”

26. Guillermo S. Hava, “The Other Chan: Donation Sanitization at the School of Public Health,” Harvard Crimson, October 19, 2020.

27. Jonathan L. Katzman, “Distasteful Donations,” Harvard Crimson, September 6, 2019.

28. “Ronnie & Gerald Chan,” Forbes, https://www.forbes.com/profile/ronnie-gerald-chan/?sh=4704cc285948, accessed 3 March 2023.

29. Author interview.

30. Austin Ramzy, “Asia Society Blames Staff for Barring Hong Kong Activist’s Speech,” New York Times, July 7, 2017.

31. “Statement on PEN Hong Kong Event, Joshua Wong,” Asia Society, July 6, 2017.

32. “Asia Society Staff Survey 2019,” uploaded by Casey Michel, https://www.scribd.com/document/495683135/Asia-Society-Staff-Survey-2019.

33. Author interview.

34. Casey Michel and David Szakonyi, “America’s Cultural Institutions Are Quietly Fueled by Russian Corruption,” Foreign Policy, October 30, 2020.

35. John de Boer, “What Are Think Tanks Good For?,” Centre for Policy Research, United Nations University, March 17, 2015.

36. Ben Freeman, “Foreign Funding of Think Tanks in America,” Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative, Center for International Policy, Washington, DC, January 2020.

37. “Our Mission,” Aspen Institute, https://www.aspeninstitute.org/what-we-do/#:~:text=The%20Aspen%20Institute%20is%20a,United%20States%20and%20the%20world, accessed 3 March 2023.

38. Freeman, “Foreign Funding of Think Tanks in America.”

39. “About the Atlantic Council,” Atlantic Council, https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/about/, accessed 3 March 2023.

40. Freeman, “Foreign Funding of Think Tanks in America.”

41. Author interview.

42. “International Advisory Board,” Atlantic Council, https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/about/international-advisory-board/, accessed 3 March 2023. As mentioned earlier, Pinchuk denies any financial links to Manafort’s network.

43. Ryan Grim and Clio Chang, “Amid Internal Investigation over Leaks to Media, the Center for American Progress Fires Two Staffers,” The Intercept, January 16, 2019.

44. Eric Lipton, Brooke Williams, and Nicholas Confessore, “Foreign Powers Buy Influence at Think Tanks,” New York Times, September 6, 2014.

45. Ibid.

46. Ibid.

47. Casey Michel, “Congress Takes Aim at Think Tanks and Their Corrupt Money,” New Republic, June 27, 2022.

48. Kjølv Egeland and Benoît Pelopidas, “No such thing as a free donation? Research funding and conflicts of interest in nuclear weapons policy analysis,” International Relations, December 22, 2022.

49. In the Matter of the Search of Information Stored Within the iCloud Account Associated with DSID/Apple Account Number 1338547227, Application for a Warrant by Telephone or Other Reliable Electronic Means, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Case No. 2:22-MJ-1530, April 15, 2022, https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22062338-allen-search-warrant?responsive=1&title=1.

50. Alan Suderman and Jim Mustian, “FBI Seizes Retired General’s Data Related to Qatar Lobbying,” Associated Press, June 7, 2022.

51. In the Matter of the Search of Information…, Application for a Warrant.

52. Michel, “Congress Takes Aim at Think Tanks.”

53. Associated Press, “FBI Seizes Retired General’s Data Related to Qatar Lobbying,” Politico, June 7, 2022.

54. Lipton, Williams, and Confessore, “Foreign Powers Buy Influence at Think Tanks.”

55. Ibid.

56. Nahal Toosi, “Trump Administration Demands Think Tanks Disclose Foreign Funding,” Politico, October 13, 2020.

57. Michael R. Pompeo, “On Transparency and the Foreign Funding of U.S. Think Tanks,” press statement, U.S. Department of State, October 13, 2020.