From 1940 onward Golos was subject to the Foreign Agent Registration Act. The article contained offensive content about Ayatollah Khomeini, who was described as a foreign agent. No mention of foreign agent status is made in the Protect America Act of 2007. However, Xinhua did not register as a foreign agent. On June 27, he filed to be retroactively registered as a foreign agent. In July 2012, the Russian foreign agent law was introduced. RT has been registered as a foreign agent since November 2017. CGTN has been registered as a foreign agent in the US. The intelligence official poses as a foreign agent to test her loyalty. The foreign agent label increases registration barriers for an NGO in Russia. On February 25, 1948, the ZOA was ordered to register as a foreign agent. Dymchurch is a foreign agent accompanied by several of his men. Having registered as a foreign agent for the lobbying effort, amidst the publicity she resigned. In March 2017, former Trump aid Monica Crowley registered as a foreign agent for Pinchuk. A foreign agent may not claim Fifth Amendment provisions against self-incrimination.