For years, one dictatorship has overseen the most widespread, and arguably most successful, foreign interference effort in the US. It’s not Russia, and it’s not China. Instead, it’s a repressive regime that gets very little attention: the United Arab Emirates (UAE). From an army of lobbyists to organizing illicit meetings, from high-level donations to America’s think tanks to gifts to America’s leading universities, from hiring former military officials to overseeing hacking campaigns, the UAE’s foreign interference and influence efforts have operated for years in the US with little scrutiny or criticism. Now, with the Human Rights Foundation’s (HRF) latest in-depth report — “Infiltrating America: How the United Arab Emirates Launched an Unprecedented Political Interference Campaign in the United States” — that reality is no more.