Trump’s loud Orban support contrasts with decades of covert US electoral warfare

When Dwight Eisenhower wanted to ensure that Japanese voters stuck with U.S.-friendly prime minister Nobusuke Kishi in the 1958 elections over socialist and communist challengers, the clandestine machinery of the national-security state whirred into action.

American spies recruited key officials within Japan’s governing Liberal Democratic Party to funnel inside information to the Central Intelligence Agency and arranged a secret […]