The confrontation exploded inside Congress: activists were removed – and the suspicions were revealed
A hearing in the US House Foreign Affairs Committee on hostile states' cognitive warfare erupted when CodePink activists arrived wearing shirts supporting Iran and Cuba and were ejected. The focus of the discussion: suspicion of money laundering in the hundreds of millions of dollars by an American tech millionaire living in Shanghai, who funds left-wing organizations.
A dramatic hearing in the subcommittee of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, dealing with the cognitive warfare of hostile states on American soil, erupted when activists from the radical left-wing organization CodePink arrived in the hall wearing shirts supporting the Iranian regime and the Cuban regime. The committee chairman, Republican Congressman Bill Huizenga, halted the hearing and ordered the Capitol Police to remove them. The activists, including the organization's founder Medea Benjamin, filmed themselves on the official broadcast and distributed an edited video on social networks, a move defined by committee members as a planned provocative theater. At the center of the discussion was the question of funding for these organizations, particularly the network of nonprofits linked to Neville Roy Singham, an American tech businessman residing in Shanghai. According to reports presented, Singham funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to left-wing entities, including CodePink and the People's Forum, to promote communist and pro-Chinese ideology. The Department of Justice and the federal prosecutor's office in New York are conducting a grand jury investigation on suspicion of money laundering and bank fraud related to Singham, although no indictments have been filed yet. Congress members emphasized that the response is not silencing opinions but funding transparency and criminal enforcement under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).