The photographs in the 31-page indictment show a woman in dark clothing, holding gifts that Korean agents had bought for her in flossy shops around Washington. She looks in a hurry — not to avoid surveillance cameras, but to get to her next meeting, appearance, interview.

Who would have suspected Sue Mi Terry? The italicized disclaimers at the think tanks where she worked compound the shock. Her last job, as senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, ended abruptly.

"On July 16, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed the indictment of Sue Mi Terry on charges of violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA)," the organization noted. "CFR has a rigorous FARA compliance policy, and Dr. Terry is no longer a CFR employee as of July 18, 2024."

In one program, with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, she would chat with moderator Mark Lippert, a former ambassador to South Korea, and Victor Cha, the CSIS star on Korea. CSIS gives an italicized explanation for removing all trace of her: "In light of these serious allegations, CSIS cannot verify the independence of the scholarship of this material containing the views of Ms. Terry and has therefore archived this content pending the resolution of the charges."

The indictment, signed by the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Damian Williams, reads like a litany of favor-giving in the D.C. swamp where influencers cozily interact.

Complete with shots showing Sue Mi with South Korean intel agents, clinging to expensive gifts, the indictment demands she fork over “any and all property, real and personal,” including money deemed “traceable” to “said offenses.”

Sharing a luxury pad on Manhattan's Upper West........

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