Foreign Agents Registration Unit (FARA) Counterespionage Section
You can list the results by country. In the most recent report given (2nd half of 2002) there is one entity registered as representing Lebanon:
Future Millennium Foundation, Inc., #5202
14 West Rosemont Avenue
Alexandria, VA 22301
Fouad Makhzoumi
The registrant provided advice to the foreign principal.
Finances: None Reported
A search on this entry and Lang verifies that yes, Lang is registered as their agent:
FARA - Future Millennium Foundation, Inc.
LEBANON: Fouad Makhzoumi
Short Form Listing of Registrant's Foreign Agents
Lang, W. Patrick
Nice catch, piasa :-)
You folks are amazing! I have received an education today through reading this thread.
My whole-hearted thanks for the illumination! (And my apologies to other key contributors that have slipped my mind right now.)
- IIG
Very nice- thanks for that confirmation. I kept reading "for an arab government" everywhere it seemed but the articles I came across never named the country!
I found this item on local Lebanese politics while bopping around the web. This is kind of interesting in light of the assassination of Hariri the other day:
The case of the Armenian Evangelical candidate, Dedeyan, was slightly different. Except for die-hard Ramkavars and Jerejian supporters (who had made an electoral pact with Hariri), most Armenians in Beirut's First Electoral District took it as a national obligation to vote for Dedeyan against non-Armenian Evangelical candidates. Dedeyan had joined ranks with Fouad Makhzoumi, another rich Sunni businessman opposing Hariri, and the Armenian Unity Front had called on voters to support the former. However, there were many instances when Armenian voters chose Dedeyan, but voted for pro-Hariri and other candidates for the other positions on the electoral ticket. -------Armenian News Network / Groong , Review & Outlook http://groong.usc.edu/ro/ro-20000907.html , as retrieved on Feb 12, 2005