For those who dismiss the idea that a foreign power could decisively influence American policy through the use of covert intelligence operations, propaganda, fake news stories, dirty tricks, a closer look at history would reveal that the British government, which was a friend and ally, unlike present-day Russia, used those kinds of efforts to help propel the United States into supporting the Allied cause fighting the Nazis in World War II.
As noted by Politico, “British intel officers in New York and Washington worked to elect candidates who favored U.S. intervention, defeat those who advocated neutrality, and silence or destroy the reputations of American isolationists they deemed a menace to British security.”
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