We look forward to Osama bin Laden comic books, more in Rendon's series of People We Hate comic propoganda (see http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/cia/rendon.html)
Foreign Agent listing: http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fara/fara2nd00/REGS/04449.HTM Rendon Group, Inc. Busch, Sarah Feyerherm, Joel Mark Gaev, Renee J. Gasson, Ellen C. Goldberg, Beth R. Hinkel, Robert Scott Libby, Sandra McClin, Monica E. Murray, John Thomas , III Petree, Jennifer Querzoli, Ellen Reffelt, Rachel B. Rendon, John , Jr. Rueschemeyer, Simone We note both JR and Ms. Libby are members of the Global Strategies Group http://www.gsgroup.com/Members.htm The Rendon Group Global Strategic Communications 1875 Connecticut Avenue, N. W. Washington, D. C. 20009 Telephone: 202 745-4900 Fax: 202 745-0215 World Wide Web: www.rendon.com E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Excerpt from http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=68&u=/nyt/20020219/ts_nyt/pentagon_readies_efforts_to_sway_sentiment_abroad about the new Minitruth: Little information is available about the Office of Strategic Influence, and even many senior Pentagon officials and Congressional military aides say they know almost nothing about its purpose and plans. Its multimillion dollar budget, drawn from a $10 billion emergency supplement to the Pentagon budget authorized by Congress in October, has not been disclosed. Headed by Brig. Gen. Simon P. Worden of the Air Force, the new office has begun circulating classified proposals calling for aggressive campaigns that use not only the foreign media and the Internet, but also covert operations. The new office "rolls up all the instruments within D.O.D. to influence foreign audiences," its assistant for operations, Thomas A. Timmes, a former Army colonel and psychological operations officer, said at a recent conference, referring to the Department of Defense. "D.O.D. has not traditionally done these things." One of the office's proposals calls for planting news items with foreign media organizations through outside concerns that might not have obvious ties to the Pentagon, officials familiar with the proposal said. General Worden envisions a broad mission ranging from "black" campaigns that use disinformation and other covert activities to "white" public affairs that rely on truthful news releases, Pentagon officials said. "It goes from the blackest of black programs to the whitest of white," a senior Pentagon official said. Another proposal involves sending journalists, civic leaders and foreign leaders e-mail messages that promote American views or attack unfriendly governments, officials said. Asked if such e-mail would be identified as coming from the American military, a senior Pentagon official said that "the return address will probably be a dot-com, not a dot- mil," a reference to the military's Internet designation. To help the new office, the Pentagon has hired the Rendon Group, a Washington-based international consulting firm run by John W. Rendon Jr., a former campaign aide to President Jimmy Carter. The firm, which is being paid about $100,000 a month, has done extensive work for the Central Intelligence Agency, the Kuwaiti royal family and the Iraqi National Congress, the opposition group seeking to oust President Saddam Hussein. Officials at the Rendon Group say terms of their contract forbid them to talk about their Pentagon work. But the firm is well known for running propaganda campaigns in Arab countries, including one denouncing atrocities by Iraq during its 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
