This is the conclusion reached by the US intelligence services, according to a document released today.
Russia carried more than 300 million dollars to foreign political parties, officials and politicians in more than 24 countries since 2014, as part of Moscow’s effort to increase its influence abroadaccording to a senior Biden administration official.
This is the conclusion reached by the US intelligence services, according to a document released today.
The US government declassified some information contained in the intelligence report. They shared this information about Russia’s covert political funding with other countries, the official said, speaking to reporters on the condition of anonymity.
The US “believes that this is the minimum estimate and that Russia likely smuggled more resources, which were not detected,” he added.
The official did not specify which countries these are. He gave the example of a Russian ambassador to an “Asian country” who gave “millions of dollars” to a presidential candidate.
The Biden administration had requested this investigation from the US intelligence services immediately after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, at the same time that it took several other initiatives to isolate Moscow on the international stage.
The official said US diplomacy will share its findings with the governments of at least 100 other countries, following up on Joe Biden’s December 2021 online forum on democracy.
No assessment of Russian meddling in US politics was made in this analysis. However, US intelligence has previously said that Moscow interfered in the 2016 presidential election, mainly through social networking sites, to support Donald Trump who had expressed his admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“The US is working tirelessly to address our weaknesses, and we urge other countries to do the same and join us in this important effort,” the official concluded.
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