Foreign Agent Registration: Former Federal Officials Representing Foreign Interests Before the U.S. Government.

Abstract

We identified 82 former high-level federal officials, including Members of Congress, White House officials, congressional staff, and executive agency officials, who left the U.S. government between fiscal years 1986 and 1991 and subsequently represented foreign interests before the U.S. government. We did not determine whether these officials' representational activities for foreign interests before the U.S. government violated any conflict of-interest laws. The Justice Department has taken actions to address our previous recommendations, specifically those concerning (1) seeking legislative authority for additional measures to enforce compliance with foreign agent registration, (2) improving reporting guidance to agents, (3) conducting a survey of user concerns, and (4) inspecting the activities of certain types of agents. However, the Department has not fully implemented some recommendations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 26, 1992
Accession Number
ADA290676

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Commerce
  • Congress
  • Department Of State
  • Employment
  • Foreign Relations
  • Government (Foreign)
  • Governments
  • Hong Kong
  • House Of Representatives
  • Law
  • National Governments
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Political Systems
  • Public Administration
  • United Kingdom

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Government and Public Administration Law.