Reply #30: Oh yes bloody, bloody wicked firm

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And who else to represent Barrick, Burson-Marsteller.

Burson-Marsteller is one of the largest public relations agencies in the world and also the most reviled due to its mercenary attitude in choosing clients and contracts, and its frequent run ins with activists for environmental and other progressive causes. When helping its industry clients to escape environmental legislation or sprucing up the image of some of the most repressive governments on Earth, B-M brings to bear state of the art techniques in manipulating the mass media, legislators and public opinion.
http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/profiles/burson/burson1.htm

Dirty hands - a few of Burson-Marsteller's less public clients

Regimes

Argentina's fascist junta
Indonesian Government
El Salvadorian Government
Nigerian Government
Saudi Arabia - was hired on Sept 14 to promote Saudi interest in the US following the terrorist attacks
Mexican Government to promote NAFTA
Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu
South Korea

Corporate

Union Carbide after the Bhopal disaster, which killed thousands
Babcock & Wilcox for Three Mile Island nuclear accident
Exxon following the Exxon Valdez oil spill
EUROPABIO a body representing the biotechnology industry

http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/magazine/corpwatch/burson.htm

And one other famous client of Burson
INC Seeks Enhanced Credibility
Burson-Marsteller is working to enhance the credibility of the Iraqi National Congress as it seeks to establish itself as a legitimate force in postinvasion Iraq," writes the Holmes Report, a PR trade publication. B-M has been working with the Congress, led by highprofile Iraqi exile Ahmed Chalabi, since 1999, under a state department contract...
http://www.guerrillanews.com/media/doc1876.html