constantine colinik who also worked for the iri. he took over the moscow office when patton left in 2004. rarely caught on camera, colleagues nicknamed him the invisible man. court filings by mueller s office have linked him to russian intelligence. now he s better known as paul manafort s alleged partner in crime. the two of them are accused of promoting russian interests in ukraine. what happened inside that office? how did employees who were hired to promote democratic values end up working for the wrong side? well, we spoke to a source who we can t identify, but who worked very closely with kolinik there. he sent them to this building in moscow to pick up envelopes stuffed with cash and airline tickets. the building is the office of oleg daraposka, an he oligarch
with close ties to putin and also manafort s client. as soon as they found out what he was up to, in 2005 they fired him. they also emphasized the work the iri continues to do to advance democracy worldwide. it seems unthinkable that this brainchild of ronald reagan and chaired just before his death by john mccain was used unwittingly as a vehicle for russian intelligence. according to our source, that s exactly what happened. that didn t just involve pushing the kremlin s interest in ukraine. russian journalists set up a new website called the project, under daraposka s direction, manafort and kolinik were helping a russian official in kyrgyzstan. it was home to a major u.s. air
reporting that shows that some of those relationships were forged, of all places, in the moscow office of an organization that was launched by none other than president ronald reagan. at the height of the cold war, president reagan launched a crusade to confront the soviet union, not with more nuclear weapons, but with ideals. if the rest of this century is to witness the gradual growth of freedom and democratic ideals, we must take actions to assist the campaign for democracy. one action was founding the international republican institute, or iri, the following year. its mission? to spread the light of democracy around the globe. by 1993, the u.s. victory in the war of ideals was sealed when the iri opened an office in moscow. but it s hard to imagine that
at the height of the cold war, president reagan launched a crusade to confront the soviet union, not with more nuclear weapons, but with ideals. if the rest of this century is to witness the gradual growth of freedom and democratic ideals, we must take actions to assist the campaign for democracy. one action was founding the international republican institute, or iri, the following year. its mission? to spread the light of democracy around the globe. by 1993, the u.s. victory in the war of ideals was sealed when the iri opened an office in moscow. but it s hard to imagine that the gipper would be proud of some of its employees. take sam paton. he ran the moscow office from 2001 to 2004. he just pled guilty to charges
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