A new classified report by U.S. intelligence officials finds the United Arab Emirates sought to influence U.S. foreign policy through a variety of legal and illegal means. The revelations, detailed in The Washington Post, are unusual since investigations of this kind don’t typically focus on allied nations. According to the report, the UAE spent more than $154 million on lobbyists since 2016, as well as hundreds of millions on donations to U.S. universities and think tanks that produce policy papers favorable to the UAE. In one of the more damning exposés, the UAE hired three former U.S. intelligence and military officials to spy on political dissidents, journalists and companies, and hack into computers.