Myanmar junta retains Roger Stone to rebrand extrajudicial killings as standard bipartisan lobbying

WASHINGTON — Longtime political operative Roger Stone has filed paperwork under the Foreign Agents Registration Act to officially represent Myanmar’s military junta, securing a $50,000 monthly retainer to help the internationally isolated regime transition from executing political dissidents to hosting high-dollar Washington fundraisers.

Justice Department documents processed on Tuesday outline Stone’s mandate to normalize relations between the United States and the military leaders who seized power in a 2021 coup. The filing notes that Stone will provide strategic counsel on how to navigate the complex American legislative process, primarily by advising the junta that their ongoing campaign of airstrikes against civilian populations should be officially logged as aggressive bipartisan negotiation. The $50,000 monthly fee will be routed through a series of shell companies to avoid international sanctions currently placed on the regime’s leadership.

Human rights organizations and the United Nations have extensively documented the junta's systemic reliance on mass incarceration, torture, and the extrajudicial killing of pro-democracy activists, actions which Stone's firm recently categorized in a supplemental FARA disclosure as robust constituent outreach. According to the lobbying agreement, Stone is tasked with securing meetings with key congressional figures to present the junta's widely condemned sham elections as a triumph of conservative election security protocols.