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Exhibit 822

Report of the Attorney General to the Congress on the Administration of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, six months ending December 31, 2025

Exhibit 822 ยท Agency report to Congress

Report of the Attorney General to the Congress on the Administration of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, six months ending December 31, 2025

A total of 565 active registrants, representing 858 foreign principals, were on file during the period of July 1, 2025, through December 31, 2025.

Statistical summary: 54 new registration statements and 13 terminations; 565 active registrants representing 858 foreign principals; 349 new short-form registrations; 127 new agreements; seven books-and-records inspections; no civil causes of action and no criminal FARA cases charged in the period. Per-country listing names each registrant, principal, activities and amounts received. Pages 233 to 236 list the Qatar-related registrants; the report states that the listing includes principals with no association with a foreign government.

Source
U.S. Department of Justice
Date
2026
Quoted from
Foreword, Statistical Summary, p. 3
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://www.justice.gov/media/1467011/dl?inline
Accessed
2026-11-09
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit

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Finding POL-6.2
Primary record DOJ's registrant files show 66 new FARA registrations in 2014, 150 in 2019 and 138 in 2025. DOJ's report for July to December 2025 lists 565 active registrants representing 858 foreign principals, and the inspector general counted 916 active registrations in 1987 and 360 at the end of 2014.
Finding POL-6.10
Primary record DOJ's report for July to December 2025 lists 29 registrants with a Qatar-related foreign principal, and 19 of them report amounts received. The largest listed amounts are $1,820,400 for Finn Partners from Qatar Museums and $420,000 each for BGR Government Affairs and Bachner Group.