The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) requires all persons and entities engaged in political and lobbying activities on behalf of foreign principals to disclose those relationships by registering with the US Department of Justice.
Persons and entities included on the US DOJ FARA list include:
- Foreign Principals: Foreign individuals or entities (such as embassies, foreign state-owned enterprises, or organizations) that have engaged a US person to lobby the US government on behalf of their policy interests;
- Registrants: US persons (typically lobbying firms) that are retained by a foreign principal to lobby the US government on behalf of the foreign principal's interests; and
- Short-Form Registrants: US persons (typically individual lobbyists) lobbying on behalf of a foreign principal that is typically linked to a registrant.
In addition to including the entirety of the US DOJ FARA database, Castellum.AI includes relationships between foreign principals, registrants and short-form registrants, countries with which the individuals and entities are associated, and links to DOJ filings detailing lobbying work and payments between foreign principals and registrants.