According to the NY Times [1], the US Department of Justice has just released their Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) database [2]. The Foreign Agents Registration Act (22 USC 611) [3] requires people who are under foreign control to register with the Department of Justice before swaying public opinion.

The Sunlight Foundation [4] has some evaluation of the database. FARA would like feedback [5] so please try it out and let them know what you think of the database.

Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) was enacted in 1938. FARA is a disclosure statute that requires persons acting as agents of foreign principals in a political or quasi-political capacity to make periodic public disclosure of their relationship with the foreign principal, as well as activities, receipts and disbursements in support of those activities.