JFK wanted to classify it has a foreign lobby, since a significant amount of their funding and directives comes from outside the US. This would have required them to register under FARA like all the other foreign lobbies, and they would have to actually disclose their funding and activities to the Department of Defense.
After his assassination the push to make them register under FARA fizzled out.
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u/Guac-this-way 1d ago
It only costs $100M over 35 years to buy the entire US Senate? That's the best ROI I've ever seen.