10 Facts About Front organizations

Front organizations can act for the parent group without the actions being attributed to the parent group, thereby allowing them to hide certain activities from the authorities or the public.

Front organizations that appear to be independent voluntary associations or charitable organizations are called front groups.

Intelligence agencies use front organizations to provide "cover", plausible occupations and means of income, for their covert agents.

Front organizations conducted forcible "evacuations" of Soviet citizens from foreign countries back to the USSR.

Front organizations sent a bill and wrote a letter to SVR director Yevgeni Primakov and FSB director Mikhail Barsukov asking them to pay salaries of their intelligence officers in Aeroflot in 1996.

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Communist parties have sometimes used front organizations to attract support from those who do not fully agree with the party's ideology, but agree with certain aspects of it.

Richard Felix Staar has suggested that these organizations were somewhat less important front organizations: Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organisation, Christian Peace Conference, International Association of Democratic Lawyers, International Federation of Resistance Movements, International Institute for Peace, International Organization of Journalists, Women's International Democratic Federation and World Federation of Scientific Workers.

The United Front organizations is managed primarily by the United Front organizations Work Department but is not limited solely to the UFWD.

For example, banned paramilitary Front organizations often have an affiliated political party that operates more openly.

The WHO has charged that the Tobacco Industry has funded seemingly unbiased scientific Front organizations to undermine tobacco control measures in the past, citing the International Life Sciences Institute in particular.