War on words deception

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War on words deception
July 23 2003

A recently published book looking at a shadowy outfit with close CIA links suggests truth is a continuing casualty of wars, including Iraq, writes Tony Stephens.


John Rendon, an adviser to the United States National Security Council and contracted to the Central Intelligence Agency, flew to Australia in April to attend the funeral for the Australian TV cameraman Paul Moran, who had been killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq.

Rendon heads the public relations Rendon Group, whose clients include the Pentagon and the CIA. He calls himself an "information warrior and a perception manager".

It was Rendon who provided the US flags for hundreds of Kuwaitis to wave when American troops rolled into Kuwait City at the end of the first Gulf War, signalling to the world that the Americans were liberating heroes.

And when President George Bush senior ordered the CIA in 1991 to run a covert operation to unseat Saddam Hussein, the CIA hired Rendon to organise anti-Saddam propaganda inside Iraq.

More: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/07/22/1058853076257.html

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