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The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) requires that all American citizens working to influence U.S. policy on behalf of foreign governments register with the Department of Justice and to disclose information on any and all political activity in which they engaged for foreign clients. This includes filing, within 48 hours, any informational materials disseminated to two or more people.

The foreign influence industry in the United States is thriving. Foreign interests—which are called foreign principals—include foreign governments, “political parties, persons or organizations outside the United States, except U.S. citizens, and any entity organized under the laws of a foreign country or having its principal place of business in a foreign country. Currently foreign principals employ more than 1,000 American lobbyists and spend nearly half a billion dollars annually trying to influence U.S. policymaking and public opinion

The rules for lobbyists representing foreign interests differ from those for lobbyists representing domestic interests in an important way: FARA’s disclosure requirements require a significantly higher level of detail such as: The materials they distribute to the targets of their lobbying, Copies of their contracts with their foreign clients, Semiannual “Supplemental Statements” which contain, among many other things, any political contributions they’ve made

However, there are also major gaps in the FARA requirements. The Supplemental Statements do not require registrants to provide the names of the recipients of informational materials or the dates the materials were sent. The registrants are also not explicitly required to provide specific information about their meetings or contacts with policymakers, such as who they met with or what they discussed, though some registrants choose to provide these details

Registered Agents

1. 30 Point Strategies
2. 42 West, LLC
3. AB&C Philadelphia LLC
4. Africa-The African Travel Association, Inc. ("Africa Travel Association")
5. Akin, Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
6. All Pakistan Muslim League
7. Alpine Tourist Commission
8. Alston & Bird LLP
9. Amato Libero Berard
10. American Palm Oil Council
11. Arab Information Center No. 1
12. Arnall Golden Gregory LLP
13. Arnold & Porter, LLP
14. Austrian Tourist Office Inc.
15. Austrian Trade Commission in the USA, Southern Region
16. Avalanche Strategic Communications
17. Bahamas Ministry of Tourism
18. Barbour Griffith & Rogers LLC d/b/a BGR Holding
19. Bavarian U.S. Offices for Economic Development LLC
20. Beef + Lamb New Zealand
21. Belgian Tourist Office
22. Bermuda Department of Tourism
23. Blank Rome Government Relations LLC
24. Blank Rome LLP
25. BLJ Worldwide Ltd (Brown Lloyd James)
26. Brian Forni
27. Bridges International Group
28. British Tourist Authority
29. British Virgin Islands Tourist Board
30. Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP
31. Bruce Zagaris
32. Brunswick Group LLC
33. Bryan Cave LLP
34. Butterfield Carter & Associates
35. C&M International Ltd.
36. Caribbean Tourism Organization
37. Caspian Group LLC
38. Cassidy & Associates
39. Cassidy & Associates Inc.
40. CDN International Inc.
41. Chad Gracia
42. China Daily Distribution Corporation
43. China National Tourist Office
44. CHP Representation to the United States LLC
45. Citizens for Democracy in Georgia
46. CLS Strategies (Chlopak, Leonard, Schechter and Associates)
47. CMGRP Inc. d/b/a Weber Shanwick
48. Collins Anderson Philp Public Affairs
49. Colombian Coffee Federation Inc.
50. Command Consulting Group LLC
51. Commonwealth of Dominica Maritime Registry, Inc.
52. Conover + Company Communications Inc.
53. Council of Khalistan
54. Covington & Burling LLP
55. Czech Center New York
56. Daniel J. Edelman
57. Darlene Richeson & Associates LLC
58. David M. Staton
59. Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP
60. DCI Group LLC
61. Deutsche Telekom, Inc.
62. Development Counsellors International
63. Dickstein Shapiro LLP
64. Discover the World Marketing
65. DLA Piper US LLP
66. Doug Shoen
67. Dutko Worldwidev LLG
68. Endeavor Group
69. Enterprise Estonia in San Jose
70. Ester M. Sprange
71. Ethiopian Poeple Revolutionary Party
72. Fabiani & Company 
73. Far Esat Trade Service Inc.
74. Farrow, Jeffrey L.
75. Fianna Strategies LLC
76. Finkelstein Thompson LLP
77. Fleishman-Hillard Inc.
78. Florence Lowe-Lee
79. Foley Hoag LLP
80. Friends of Sinn Fein
81. Fukuoka Center for Overseas Commerce in America (The Government of Fukuoka Prefecture, Silicon Vall)
82. Garvey Schubert Barer A Partnership of Professional
83. Geoffrey Weill Assoc.
84. Gephardt Group Government Affairs, LLC
85. Giacomo Galletto
86. Global Policy Group, Inc.
87. GoodWorks International LLC
88. Government of the Cayman Islands Dept of Tourism
89. Gray Global Strategies, Inc.
90. Grayling Connecting Point LLC
91. Greenberg Traurig LLP
92. Gregory J. Kuykendall
93.  Hal Tian Development USA, Inc.
94. HDMK LLC
95. Head Office in the United States Hong Kong Tourism
96. Heather Podesta + Partners, LLC
97. Hecht, Spencer & Associates, Inc.
98. Hill & Knowlton, Inc.
99. Hillenby LLC
100. Hills Stern & Morley LLP
101. Hogan & Hartson LLP (Hogan Lovells US LLP)
102. Holland & Knight LLP
103. Hong Kong Trade Development Council, Inc.
104. Humanitas Global Development
105. Independent Diplomat, Inc.
106. India Tourism (Los Angeles)
107. India Tourism (New York)
108. Innovation Norway
109. Innovative Global Initiatives and Solutions, LLC
110. International Merchandising Corporation
111. International Registries, Inc.
112. International Trade & Development Agency, Inc.
113. Invest Northern Ireland
114. Italian Government Tourist Board
115. Jamaica Tourist Board
116. James G. Hergen
117. Japan National Tourist Organization
118. Japan Network Group, Inc.
119. Jay Donald Hastings
120. Jetro Atlanta
121. Jetro Chicago
122. Jetro New York
123. Jetro San Francisco
124. Jetro Houston
125. Jetro Los Angeles
126. Jones Walker LLP
127. JWI LLC d/b/a Jefferson Waterman International
128. Karv Communications, Irte
129. KBS America Inc.
130. Ketchum Inc.
131. Kirsten A. Chadwick
132. Kobe Trade Information Office
133. Korea Economic Institute of America
134. Korea International Trade Association Inc.
135. Korea National Tourism Organization
136. Korea National Tourism Organization Los Angeles
137. Korea Trade Promotion Center
138. KRL International LLC
139. KWR International Inc.
140. Larry L. Overstreet
141. Law Office of Bart S. Fisher
142. LeClair Ryan, a Professional Corporation
143. Lester S. Hyman
144. Levick Strategic Communications
145. Levine & Company
146. LISCR, LLC
147. Lloyd's of London
148. Locke Lord Strategies, L.P.
149. Lou Hammond & Associates Inc.
150. LTL Strategies
151. Lubanovici, Mircea
152. Luxcore Ltd.
153. LynxDC, LLC
154. M. Silver Associates, Inc.
155. Malaysian Tourism Promotion Board
156. Malaysian Industrial Development Authority
157. Malaysian Rubber Export Promotion Council
158. Manufactured Imports and Investment Promotion Organization (MIPRO)
159. Mark Alsalih
160. Mark Edmond Clark
161. Maseng Communications
162. McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
163. McMark, LLC
164. Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti Inc.
165. Mehmet Yuksel
166. Michael Joseph Fonte
167. Michelle E. Martin
168. Missy Farren & Associates, Ltd. d/b/a MFA
169. Moffett Group LLC (formerly Private Public Solutions, LLC)
170. Monaco Government Tourist Office
171. Moroccan-American Center for Policy Inc.
172. MQM USA
173. Myrmidon Group LLC
174. National Change Party (National Change Current)
175. National Council of Resistance of -Iran- U.S. Representative Office
176. National Strategies LLC
177. Native American Rights Fund
178. Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
179. Netherlands Board of Tourism & Covention
180. Nurnberger & Associates, Inc.
181. O'Brien, Gentry & Scott, LLC (O'Brien & Associates LLC)
182. Office of Deputy Commissioner of Maritime Affairs
183. Office of Economic Community of West African States ECOWAS at UN represented by HRH Prince Adel El-Hashemite Hon. Co
184. Office of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic in the USA
185. Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide
186. OIC Services, Inc.
187. Olivia Goumbri
188. Orion Strategies LLC
189. Oromo Liberation Front (OLF)
190. Oromo Liberation Front- USA
191. Oromo Liberation Front Foreign Relations Office Inc.
192. Osaka University, San Francisco Office
193. Paige E. Reffe
194. Pakistan Tehreek E Insaf NA USA
195. Palestinian Liberation Organization
196. Park Strategies LLC
197. Parri and Romani Assoc. Inc. d/b/a Parry, Romani, DeConcini & Symm
198. Parter International Inc.
199. Patton Boggs LLP
200. Pearson & Associates
201. Peck, Madigan, Jones & Stewart, Inc.
202. Peter OToole LLC
203. Picard Kentz & Rowe LLP
204. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
205. Podesta Group Inc.
206. Polish National Tourist Office
207. Prime Policy Group
208. Progress for Angola, Inc.
209. PTI USA LLC
210. Public Strategies Washington Inc.
211. Qorvis Communications LLC
212. Quebec Government House
213. R&R Partners Inc.
214. Rasky Baerlein Strategic Communications Inc.
215. Raza Bokhari
216. Reed T. Dean
217. Representative of German Industry and Trade
218. Representative of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
219. Representative Office in the USA, CCPIT
220. Roberti + White LLC
221. Romanian Tourist Office
222. Rosemont Associates LLC
223. Ruder Finn Inc.
224. Ryberg and Smith LLC
225. Samuels International Associates Inc.
226. Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg P.A.
227. Sanitas International
228. Saudi Petroleum International Inc.
229. Saudi Refining Inc.
230. Sconset Strategies LLC
231. Scottish Enterprise (d/b/a Scottish De)
232. Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy & Ecker, P.A.
233. Sidley Austin LLP
234. Sienna Briella Girgenti
235. Singapore Economic Development Board
236. Singapore Tourism Board
237. Slocum & Boddie, P.C.
238. Sorini, Samet & Associates LLC
239. Spring O'Brien & Co., Inc.
240. Squire Sanders and Dempsey LLP
241. Squire Sanders Public Advocacy LLC
242. St. Lucia Tourist Board
243. St. Maarten Tourist Office
244. Strategy XXI Group, LLC
245. Susan Roth
246. Switzerland Tourism
247. Taiwan Trade Center, New York Inc.
248. The Bromwich Group LLC
249. The Camstoll Group LLC
250. The Fratelli Group
251. The French Film Office/Ubifrance USA
252. The Friedlander Group
253. The Gabriel Company LLC
254. The Glover Park Group LLC
255. The Harbour Group LLC
256. The Majority Group LLC
257. The MITA Group, Inc.
258. The Newinco, Inc.
259. The Nickles Group LLC
260. The Office of Tibet
261. The Potomac Square Group
262. The Raben Group LLC
263. The Whitaker Group LLC
264. Thomas Capitol Partners Inc.
265. Thompson Advisory Group (TAG)
266. Tourism and Events Queensland (formerly Tourism Queensland and Queensland Tourist and Travel Corporation)
267. Tourism Australia
268. Tourism Authority of Thailand
269. Tourism Authority of Thailand
270. Tourism Ireland Limited
271. Tourism New South Wales 
272. Tourism Office for Flanders, Belgium
273. United Lao Council for Peace, Freedom and Reconstruction (ULCPFR)
274. Urenco Inc.
275. Van Scoyoc Associates Inc.
276. Venable LLP
277. VHP Engineering, Surveying and Landscape Architecture, P.C., the NY affiliate of Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc.
278. Vision Americas LLC
279. Visitsweden (Formerly Swedish Travel and Tourism Council)
280. Vivien Ravdin
281. Washington Research and Analysis LLC
282. West Wing Writers LLC
283. Western Hemisphere Strategies LLC
284. Wexler & Walker Public Policy Advocates
285. White & Case LLP
286. Wiley Rein LLP
287. World Zionist Organization- American Section, Inc.