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Posted by Trancer-X on Apr-09-2004 00:54:

Propaganda...

Who's heard of The Rendon Group? I find this interesting and am amazed that I'd never really heard about them.

terra incognita

Posted by Q5echo on Apr-09-2004 02:33:

Worked as the executive director of the DNC...funny

Posted by smokeape on Apr-09-2004 02:33:

WTF is the Rendon Group? Not surprising you haven't heard of them. Neither have I. Have heard about the Kick Kerry in the Ass group though...

[[[smoke]]]

Posted by Yoepus on Apr-09-2004 03:09:

quote:
Originally posted by smokeape
WTF is the Rendon Group? Not surprising you haven't heard of them. Neither have I. Have heard about the Kick Kerry in the Ass group though...

Oh that sound interesting, what does it take to join?

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counterspin:
http://www.rendon.com/

op-ed:
From Trance-x article:

quote:
Rendon was also a major player in the CIA's effort to encourage the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. In May 1991, then-President George Bush, Sr. signed a presidential finding directing the CIA to create the conditions for Hussein's removal. The hope was that members of the Iraqi military would turn on Hussein and stage a military coup. The CIA did not have the mechanisms in place to make that happen, so they hired the Rendon Group to run a covert anti-Saddam propaganda campaign. Rendon's postwar work involved producing videos and radio skits ridiculing Saddam Hussein, a traveling photo exhibit of Iraqi atrocities, and radio scripts calling on Iraqi army officers to defect.

from wiki on INC :

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source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_National_Congress

In May 1991, following the end of Operation Desert Storm, then-President George Bush signed a presidential finding directing the CIA to create the conditions for Hussein's removal. The hope was that members of the Iraqi military would turn on Hussein and stage a military coup. The CIA did not have the mechanisms in place to make that happen, so they hired the Rendon Group, a PR firm run by John Rendon, to run a covert anti-Saddam propaganda campaign. Rendon's postwar work involved producing videos and radio skits ridiculing Hussein, a traveling photo exhibit of Iraqi atrocities, and radio scripts calling on Iraqi army officers to defect. ClandestineRadio.com, a website that monitors underground and anti-government radio stations in countries throughout the world, also credits the Rendon Group with "designing and supervising" the Iraqi Broadcasting Corporation (IBC) and Radio Hurriah, which began broadcasting Iraqi opposition propaganda in January 1992 from a US government transmitter in Kuwait.[1] According to a September 1996 article in Time magazine, six CIA case officers supervised the IBC's 11 hours of daily programming and Iraqi National Congress activities in the Iraqi Kurdistan city of Arbil.[2]

I just find it interesting that the CIA does not have the ability to run such operations. Its a sad, sad state, when the intelligence agency of the sole super power doesn't have the ability to run simple propaganda campaign.

Seriously, anyone know where the CIA placed its balls? I think it lost them a while back and can't find them. Maybe we should hire somene to grow back some balls for them?

Posted by Q5echo on Apr-09-2004 03:41:

quote:
Originally posted by Yoepus
Seriously, anyone know where the CIA placed its balls? I think it lost them a while back and can't find them. Maybe we should hire somene to grow back some balls for them?

Impossible. 83% of them are married. sorry.