The FBI investigated an American nonprofit at the behest of the Russian government without any allegation of criminal wrongdoing, according to FBI documents reviewed by The Washington Times that revealed a decades-old hidden probe.
The Russian request and the FBI’s ensuing probe into the MacArthur Foundation date back more than 18 years. The FBI documentation shows America’s top investigatory agency did the bidding of Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD).
Cato Institute senior fellow Patrick Eddington, who first obtained the records in litigation against the bureau for access to government files, called the FBI’s probe “completely insane.