Agent of influence

Agent of influence is a term describing people who use their position to influence the decision making or public opinion in one country to produce results beneficial to another.

The term is used both to describe conscious agents operating under the control of an intelligence service and people who may be classed as "useful idiots" that is, someone unaware of how their actions further the interests of a foreign power. A related concept is that of a front organization.

Critics have argued that the term can be applied to people who simply act according to their political views.

The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) was enacted in 1938, and 22 U.S.Code ยง 611 et seq provides detailed definitions of what constitutes an agent of influence under US Law.

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