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As a former C.I.A. officer once told me in Warsaw, the most powerful motive for foreign agents is revenge.
LONDON – It has been a nerve-jangling week for civil society groups in Russia as they awaited a knock on the door by state officials on the hunt for "foreign agents".
While this is standard practice, a young Arabic-speaking foreigner, hanging out for hours in street markets, and asking about unionisation, future organising plans and attitudes toward the government, is likely to have looked extremely suspicious to most Egyptians – who have been told over and over to be on the lookout for foreign agents.
As the head of the C.I.A.'s deceptively boring-sounding Graphics and Authentication Division, Mendez was responsible for foreign agents and their cover stories — which is why he was called upon in 1979 to construct a plan to evacuate six U.S. diplomats hiding at the Tehran homes of two Canadian diplomats.
Governments may also have become more focused on reporting accounts to Twitter that they believe are wrappers for foreign agents to spread false information to try to meddle with democratic processes.
If you can go looking for "foreign agents" and "spies" you have a free hand to use these means for intimidating people and for ruining reputations and careers.
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As noted in 2013 by Maina Kiai, UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, the term for "foreign agent" in Russian is synonymous with the phrase for "foreign spy".
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"Then they will really jail us for being foreign agents".
On Wednesday, the supreme court of Russia's Tatarstan republic ordered the closure of human rights group Agora, whose lawyers have represented opposition figures such as Pussy Riot, for violating the "foreign agents" law that prohibits foreign-funded NGOs from engaging in allegedly political activities.
In Pakistan, the CIA collaborated with a senior government doctor named Shakil Afridi, who is now under arrest for collaborating with foreign agents, according to the Guardian.
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