Classified documents UAE engaged in operations ‘resembling espionage’
A classified U. S. intelligence report The U. S. notes major efforts across the UAE to influence U. S. policy. The U. S. military provides a close look at a close U. S. allyAccording to the Washington Post.
Written through the National Intelligence Council, the report says the UAE has tried for years, several presidential administrations, illegally and legally to shape American policy. The Post cited 3 anonymous resources that read the report, which the council has shown to politicians in recent weeks.
The people with the report said it included measures of influence known to national security officials, but also operations that “look more like espionage,” the Post said. According to the report, the UAE has spent more than $154 million on lobbyists since 2016 and millions more. on donations to U. S. universities.
The National Intelligence Council, an analytical arm of the U. S. intelligence community. The U. S. government has not responded publicly to the report. The UAE ambassador to the USU. S. Secretary of State Yousef Al Otaiba said he was “proud of the UAE’s influence and smart reputation in the US. “”U. S. “
“He earned with effort and deserves it. It is the product of decades of close cooperation between the UAE and the United States and effective diplomacy,” he said in an interview with the Post. “It reflects common interests and shared values. “
Experts who spoke to the Post were surprised that the U. S. government was not in the process of being able to do so. The U. S. would read critically about the activity of a close ally.
“The EE. UU. se intelligence network keeps away from anything that could be construed as an examination of U. S. domestic politics. “””It’s the U. S. ,” Bruce Riedel, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution think tank who served on the National Intelligence Council in the 1990s, told the newspaper.
He added: “Doing something like this in a friendly force is also unique. This is a sign that the U. S. intelligence network is not yet in the process of doing so. “The U. S. is in a position to face new challenges. “