Money is increasingly transforming the once-staid think-tank world into a muscular arm of foreign governments’ lobbying in Washington. And it has set o! troubling questions about intellectual freedom: Some scholars say they have been pressured to reach conclusions friendly to the government #nancing the research. &e think tanks do not disclose the terms of the agreements they have reached with foreign governments. And they have not registered with the U.S. government as representatives of the donor countries, an omission that appears, in some cases, to be a violation of federal law, according to several legal specialists who examined the agreements at the request of &e Times
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