CMC Interest Groups Course: Foreign Influence, Continued

Today, we adjourn at 12:05. Student hour is 1:15-2:15. (One student already has dibs on 1:30.)

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For next Monday, watch the LA school strike and read:

Daniel DiSalvo, "The Future of Public-Employee Unions," National Affairs, Spring 2020, https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-future-of-public-employee-unions
Marcia L, McCormick, "Our Uneasiness with Police Unions: Power and Voice for the Powerful?" Saint Louis University Public Law Review 35 (2015), https://scholarship.law.slu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1135&context=faculty

An early example of foreign ties: Bahama and the drug trade
Savimbi
From a bipartisan report of the Senate Intelligence Committee:

Manafort hired and worked increasingly closely with a Russian national, Konstantin
Kilimnik. Kilimnik is a Russian intelligence officer. Kilimnik became an integral part of
Manafort's operations in Ukraine and Russia, serving as Manafort's primary liaison to Deripaska and eventually managing Manafort's office in Kyiv. Kilimnik and Manafort formed a close and lasting relationship that endured to the 2016 U.S. elections. and beyond.

...

The Committee found that Manafort's presence on the Campaign and proximity to Trump created opportunities for Russian intelligence services to exert influence over, and acquire confidential information on, the Trump Campaign. Taken as a whole, Manafort's high level access and willingness to share information with individuals closely affiliated with the Russian intelligence services, particularly Kilimnik and associates of Oleg Deripaska, represented a grave counterintelligence threat.

FARA conviction

A CMC alum...

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