Tried a gaggle search for “US meddling in Ukraine election” surprise! Only results was “Russia meddling…”
but I forged ahead, searching and found many stories on US meddling in foreign elections. There is a veritable GOLD MINE of info
"We had bags of money that we delivered to selected politicians, to defray their political expenses, their campaign expenses, for posters, for pamphlets," Mr. Wyatt said in a 1995 interview recorded for "Cold War," a 1998 documentary shown on CNN. Suitcases filled with cash had changed hands in the four-star Hotel Hassler in Rome, he said. The Christian Democrats won the elections by a comfortable margin and formed a government that excluded the Communists.