Return-Path: <sentto-279987-3670-1004493948-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Tue, 30 Oct 2001 18:07:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 32380 invoked by uid 510); 31 Oct 2001 02:05:05 -0000 Received: from n35.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.85) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 31 Oct 2001 02:05:05 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-3670-1004493948-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.1.220] by n35.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 31 Oct 2001 02:05:48 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 31 Oct 2001 02:05:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 20713 invoked from network); 31 Oct 2001 02:05:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by 10.1.1.220 with QMQP; 31 Oct 2001 02:05:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta2 with SMTP; 31 Oct 2001 02:05:48 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f9V25sC19949 for iwar@onelist.com; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 18:05:54 -0800 Message-Id: <200110310205.f9V25sC19949@red.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 18:05:54 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [fc:Pentagon.hires.firm.to.help.with.war.PR.(So.do.Saudis)] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Pentagon hires firm to help with war PR (So do Saudis) Julia Day Friday October 26, 2001 The Pentagon has hired a PR company to help it win the propaganda war involving its military action in Afghanistan. The Rendon Group, the firm the US government has hired, is the same agency that advised the CIA-backed opponents of Saddam Hussain during the mid-90s. The Pentagon is paying the company £2,300 a day for the advice. The initial £276,000, 120-day contract was awarded without a pitch with the option to extend it by up to a year. The Pentagon wants TRG to help it allay fears that its actions amount to a war against Islam rather than terrorism. It also wants to counter messages it considers to be "disinformation". The agency will monitor the news media in 79 countries, recommend ways the US military can counter opposition messages and improve public communications. TRG will also create a counter-terrorism website to provide information on terrorist groups and the US campaign against terrorism. "We needed a firm that could provide strategic counsel immediately. We were interested in someone we knew could come in quickly and help us communicate to a range of groups around the world, " said Lt Col Kenneth McClellan, a Pentagon press officer. Staff at Washington-based TRG include former members of the White House staff, Congress and Bill Clinton's government. John Rendon, the president of the company, has advised the governments of Kuwait, Haiti and Panama and the company has worked for the US department of defence and the US information agency. Just days after the September 11 attacks on the US, the Saudi government hired one of the world's biggest PR agencies, Burson Marsteller, to provide "issues counselling and crisis management". ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Pinpoint the right security solution for your company- Learn how to add 128- bit encryption and to authenticate your web site with VeriSign's FREE guide! http://us.click.yahoo.com/yQix2C/33_CAA/yigFAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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