Mike Ritland

So, for example, if Georgia SKU is overwhelmingly popular with unions, they will bring in, they will fund the NED's Solidarity Center or other sort of, you know, CIA, you know, back channels or NED is, you know, this sort of squishy in-between between state and CIA. You know, there are non- nonprofit NGO that gets its funding from the U.S. government. It was created by the U.S. government.

It was conceived of by the CIA director in 1983, William Casey, for it to be born. Its founders even say that their job was to do what the CIA used to do. That's basically delegated them They have something called the Solidarity Center, which is their union arm, and they'll often work with the AFL-CIO's international branches. So they say, okay, he's overwhelmingly popular there.

It was conceived of by the CIA director in 1983, William Casey, for it to be born. Its founders even say that their job was to do what the CIA used to do. That's basically delegated them They have something called the Solidarity Center, which is their union arm, and they'll often work with the AFL-CIO's international branches. So they say, okay, he's overwhelmingly popular there.

It was conceived of by the CIA director in 1983, William Casey, for it to be born. Its founders even say that their job was to do what the CIA used to do. That's basically delegated them They have something called the Solidarity Center, which is their union arm, and they'll often work with the AFL-CIO's international branches. So they say, okay, he's overwhelmingly popular there.

Are those the people who are on board with our operational plan in place, for example, those people? have more disproportionate perception of political legitimacy for that, they will pump those up.

Are those the people who are on board with our operational plan in place, for example, those people? have more disproportionate perception of political legitimacy for that, they will pump those up.

Are those the people who are on board with our operational plan in place, for example, those people? have more disproportionate perception of political legitimacy for that, they will pump those up.

If they say, okay, well, Georgia Skew is popular, you know, in the media here or in these demographics, they'll do a demographic assessment, you know, by ethnicity, gender, religious denomination, and they will close those gaps. They'll do art and activism. You'll see musicians. You'll see performers. You'll see cultural figures.

If they say, okay, well, Georgia Skew is popular, you know, in the media here or in these demographics, they'll do a demographic assessment, you know, by ethnicity, gender, religious denomination, and they will close those gaps. They'll do art and activism. You'll see musicians. You'll see performers. You'll see cultural figures.

If they say, okay, well, Georgia Skew is popular, you know, in the media here or in these demographics, they'll do a demographic assessment, you know, by ethnicity, gender, religious denomination, and they will close those gaps. They'll do art and activism. You'll see musicians. You'll see performers. You'll see cultural figures.

They will all be approached by USAID-funded NGOs and interlocutors to do that. And that's That's effective enough in a country with counterintelligence antibodies because it's a sort of first world economy or a second world economy. In a place like Romania, the task of trying to stop the reach of those octopus arms is impossible.

They will all be approached by USAID-funded NGOs and interlocutors to do that. And that's That's effective enough in a country with counterintelligence antibodies because it's a sort of first world economy or a second world economy. In a place like Romania, the task of trying to stop the reach of those octopus arms is impossible.

They will all be approached by USAID-funded NGOs and interlocutors to do that. And that's That's effective enough in a country with counterintelligence antibodies because it's a sort of first world economy or a second world economy. In a place like Romania, the task of trying to stop the reach of those octopus arms is impossible.

Georgia right now has been in the news all year because they've been trying to pass our equivalent of FARA, the Foreign Agent Registration Act, which is a rule here that criminalizes any U.S.

Georgia right now has been in the news all year because they've been trying to pass our equivalent of FARA, the Foreign Agent Registration Act, which is a rule here that criminalizes any U.S.

Georgia right now has been in the news all year because they've been trying to pass our equivalent of FARA, the Foreign Agent Registration Act, which is a rule here that criminalizes any U.S.

person or institution who is lobbying the American government to change policies or lobbying Congress or the executive branch, but is getting funds from a foreign country to do that and is not disclosing it because we consider that to be a totally existential counterintelligence risk.

person or institution who is lobbying the American government to change policies or lobbying Congress or the executive branch, but is getting funds from a foreign country to do that and is not disclosing it because we consider that to be a totally existential counterintelligence risk.

person or institution who is lobbying the American government to change policies or lobbying Congress or the executive branch, but is getting funds from a foreign country to do that and is not disclosing it because we consider that to be a totally existential counterintelligence risk.

If you don't have a FARA law to know which NGOs or which universities or which for-profit entities or whatnot are getting money from, pick your foreign country X, China, Saudi Arabia, UK, you name it, to do it, then That's an obvious counterintelligence threat. That's an intelligence operation, effectively, being run. When Georgia tried to pass that law, which is just U.S. FARA, what happened?