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I'm sure they'd love to but if the publishers are US-based, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) makes it a crime to bribe officials of foreign governments. The law is somewhat actively enforced:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/us-firms-say...

This is probably a very bad idea: https://www.justice.gov/criminal-fraud/foreign-corrupt-pract....

I'm pretty sure that is criminal.

And probably would not work. If this is a common expedient, at least with Snowden it didn't work.

Of course you would do it secretly.

Still, i would never recommend a big institucion to engage in criminal activities for its own benefit :)