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May 20: Think Tank Fires Employee Who Questioned Ties to Donald Trump

The Center for the National Interest, a Washington-based think tank, has fired one of its fellows after he criticized the organization’s decision to host Republican presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump for a widely publicized speech.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/05/20/exclusive-think-tank-fires-employee-who-questioned-ties-to-donald-trump/

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July 31: Why is a Think Tank with Ties to Russia treated as a pro-US non-partisan entity?

The Center for the National Interest is a think tank headquartered in D.C. with revenue of well over $1 million and over 20 full time staffers. Dubbing itself “America’s Voice for Strategic Realism,” its self-descriptor goes, 

“The Center for the National Interest seeks to stimulate debate, promote public understanding of U.S. foreign policy and international affairs, and define principled yet pragmatic policies to advance America's national interest in the complex world of the twenty-first century.

Since 2011, the Center has hosted over 81 C-SPAN programs, and claiming to be “non-partisan”, it is syndicated on mainstream news platforms such as Yahoo! News and Google News under its prolific magazine, the “National Interest”, prominent Republicans such as Grover Norquist and Henry Kissinger sit on its board, it has hosted dinners featuring Defense Secretary James Mattis and Rand Paul, and it regularly hosts roundtable discussions of foreign policy experts.

But is the Center for the National Interest really looking out for America’s interests, or is it a backdoor for the Russian government into the heart of the U.S. security establishment?
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/31/1784866/-Why-is-a-Think-Tank-with-Ties-to-Russia-treated-as-a-pro-US-non-partisan-entity
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/31/1784866/-Why-is-a-Think-Tank-with-Ties-to-Russia-treated-as-a-pro-US-non-partisan-entity

August 29: Republican Think Tank Asked Accused Russian Spy to Help Advance Donor’s Financial Interests

The Center for the National Interest is one of the most pro-Russia conservative think tanks in Washington. They hosted President Donald Trump's foreign policy speech praising Russia in 2016, when he was still a candidate.

But it turns out their closeness to Russia is greater than previously thought. A new investigation by The Daily Beast found disturbing interactions between the group's president, Dimitri Simes, and accused Russian spy Maria Butina:
https://www.alternet.org/2018/08/republican-think-tank-asked-accused-russian-spy-help-advance-donors-financial/

September 6: D.C. Wise Man Had Early Access to Trump’s Pro-Russia Speech

Photos obtained by The Daily Beast show that controversial think tank chief Dimitri Simes was closer than previously known to the speech’s drafting.

The pictures demonstrate that significant changes were made from the speech’s detailed outline to its final version—including the removal of lines condemning bigotry, praising legal immigration, and disparaging Russia.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dc-wise-man-had-early-access-to-trumps-pro-russia-speech

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February 15: Senate Panel Launches Bipartisan Probe Into Think Tank Linked To Butina, Torshin

The Senate Finance Committee is launching a bipartisan investigation into how a conservative think tank aided Maria Butina, the admitted Russian agent who sought political influence through her ties with the National Rifle Association.

Butina pleaded guilty to acting as a foreign agent in the United States in December, and her alleged Russian government handler, Alexander Torshin, was sanctioned by the U.S. in April 2018.

In a letter to Dimitri Simes, the CEO of the Center for the National Interest think tank, the committee requested records related to meetings Torshin and Butina had in 2015 with the Federal Reserve vice chairman and the Treasury Department undersecretary for international affairs.

Republican Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Democratic ranking member Ron Wyden of Oregon also sent letters to the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve to find out more about these meetings and to receive more details about their policies regarding meeting with foreign officials.
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/15/695295458/senate-panel-launches-bipartisan-probe-into-think-tank-linked-to-butina-torshin

March 7:    While investigating Maria Butina for illegal foreign agent activities, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation reportedly explored her ties to Russian-American political expert and Center for the National Interest president Dimitri Simes, who has co-hosted a talk show on Russian state television since 2018. Two sources who know Simes told the online project Otkrytye Media (Open Media) that FBI agents previously questioned them about Simes’s connections to Butina. After Butina’s arrest in July 2018, federal agents reportedly visited the Center for the National Interest in Washington, D.C.

The think tank’s lawyer, David Rivkin, told Otkrytye Media that the FBI’s interest is part of a campaign “designed to destroy CNI’s reputation,” saying that the federal agents did not meet with Simes.
https://meduza.io/en/news/2019/03/07/in-connection-with-maria-butina-fbi-agents-reportedly-questioned-people-close-to-dmitri-simes-the-president-of-the-center-for-the-national-interest

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