Operation Snowhook was a joint US -Alaskan intelligence effort to apprehend and bring to justice leaders of the AOK and ANF from October of 2000 until wide arrests were made between November 8-10, 2005. The program was covertly begun under an agreement between Alaskan Premier Boris Molotov, who requested American assistance, and American President Stephen G. Martin, who expressed an interest in helping the Alaskans fix what other American administrations had previously viewed as a domestic issue for the Alaskans.