As U.S. officials investigated in January the FSB's alleged role in election cyber attacks, U.S. technology firms were quietly lobbying the government to soften a ban on dealing with the Russian spy agency, people with direct knowledge of the effort told Reuters. New U.S. sanctions put in place by former President Barack Obama last December -- part of a broad suite of actions taken in response to Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election -- had made it a crime for American companies to have any business relationship with the FSB, or Federal Security Service.
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