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	Pentagon: We Won't Lie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Office of Strategic Influence was first conceived of in November as a central place that could oversea the contents of radio broadcasts, leaflets and to put out information to counter Taliban propaganda.
		The office has not yet been stood up as the "mission" is still being debated between the Pentagon, CIA, State Department and National Security Council, Feith said.
		He portrayed the office's primary mandate as being in support of battlefield operations: the creation of leaflets, the text of radio broadcasts over enemy airwaves, and the monitoring and countering of enemy propaganda, for instance.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2002/2/20/143114.shtml (685 words)

	Office of Strategic Influence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Office of Strategic Influence, or OSI, was a department set up in the United States Department of Defense in late 2001 or early 2002, to support the War on Terrorism through psychological operations in targeted countries.
		The closure of the office was announced by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld soon after its existence became publicly known.
		November 18, 2002: Rumsfeld states in a press briefing that the Office of Strategic Influence was closed down only in name, that the activities of the office still continue.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Influence (435 words)

	LearnThis.Info Encyclopedia articles beginning with 'Of' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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	Office of Strategic Influence
		Soon after the office is formed, a proposal is floated to produce and disseminate disinformation.
		The Pentagon announces the existence of the new Office of Strategic Influence (OSI), which “was quietly set up after September 11.” The role of this office is to plant false stories in the foreign press, phony e-mails from disguised addresses, and other covert activities to manipulate public opinion.
		Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announces the closure of the Office of Strategic Influence (see Shortly after September 11, 2001), after news of the Pentagon initiative causes a public stir (see February 19, 2002).
	www.cooperativeresearch.org /entity.jsp?id=1521846767-598 (976 words)

	Pentagon Readies Efforts to Sway Sentiment Abroad
		The small but well-financed Pentagon office, which was established shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, was a response to concerns in the administration that the United States was losing public support overseas for its war on terrorism, particularly in Islamic countries.
		The Office for Strategic Influence also coordinates its work with the White House's new counterterrorism office, run by Wayne A. Downing, a retired general who was head of the Special Operations command, which oversees the military's covert information operations.
		The Office of Strategic Influence will also oversee private companies that will be hired to help develop information programs and evaluate their effectiveness using the same techniques as American political campaigns, including scientific polling and focus groups, officials said.
	commondreams.org /headlines02/0219-01.htm (1592 words)

	Pentagon Shuts 'Disinformation' Unit, Office Was Criticized For Plans To Spread False Stories Abroad - CBS News
		The Pentagon said Tuesday it was closing a new office opened late last year to project a favorable view of U.S. military activity abroad after media reports that it may be used to spread disinformation.
		Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said the Office of Strategic Influence would not have spread false stories but that news reports and commentary have made it impossible for the agency to do its job.
		Rumsfeld said the office was supposed to help get the United States' side of the story out to counter the views of opponents such as the Taliban and the al Qaeda terrorist network.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/02/25/terror/main330469.shtml (612 words)

	The Office of Strategic Influence: Is it the truth, or is it a lie? JAMES O. GOLDSBOROOUGH / San Diego Union-Tribune ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said the Office of Strategic Influence is being closed down shortly after it was opened because its effectiveness has been damaged by negative treatment in the media.
		And that office was serving as the linkage with the White House and the Department of State and the rest of the government on the subject of information.
		And Doug Feith properly decided that he felt that there ought to be an office of the Secretary of Defense, a civilian office, that monitored that activity.
	www.mindfully.org /Reform/2002/Office-Of-Strategic-Influence28feb02.htm (2021 words)

	World History :: Encyclopedia Index -- Of (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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	Dream Theater - The Official Site
		A new message board is now available for fans interested in discussing the OSI project and its debut album "Office of Strategic Influence".
		Both the regular edition as well as the limited edition of the OSI album "Office of Strategic Influence" are now available for pre-ordering at CDUniverse.com.
		The OSI album "Office of Strategic Influence" has been mastered, and Kevin has just completed the video material that will be included on the special edition CD (a music video and documentary footage).
	www.dreamtheater.net /archive_osi.php (1777 words)

	Office Of Strategic Influence
		A child who is never taught anything but survival all of its life sustains itself on hatred and regret because that it the most nourishing and least expensive of emotions.
		If we want to influence the world then we need to speak to the world in its language.
		Someone with good common sense needs to sit him down and explain to him that he is not the Emperor and this is not pre World War II Japan.
	www.noisetoknowledge.com /office_of_strategic_influence,_sure_that_will_fly___.htm (496 words)

	All-Reviews.com Music Review: Office Of Strategic Influence by O.S.I.
		Office of Strategic Influence sounds like a combination of Porcupine Tree and The Flower Kings.
		Steven Wilson of PT actually is the guest singer on the track ShutDOWN (notice the emphasis on the word down), which makes my observation valid and obvious to the listener familiar with the bands I have mentioned.
		There are clips from TV and radio broadcasts used in the songs as well, mostly unintelligible, except for a Dan Rathers snippet, which provided yet another distraction to the music.
	www.all-reviews.com /music/office-of-strategic-influence.htm (521 words)

	Office of Strategic Influence -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Office of Strategic Influence -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The Office of Strategic Influence, or OSI, was a U.S. Government agency set up in 2002, believed to have been closed due to the negative publicity received after it was announced by (Click link for more info and facts about Donald Rumsfeld) Donald Rumsfeld.
		(Military actions designed to influence the perceptions and attitudes of individuals, groups, and foreign governments) Psychological operations, and the presence of Ft Bragg's 4th Psyops Gp at CNN and NPR
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/O/Of/Office_of_Strategic_Influence.htm (273 words)

	Pentagon and bogus news: All is denied
		Washington, The New York Times — Early last year Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld disbanded the Pentagon's Office of Strategic Influence after it became known that the office was considering plans to provide false news items to unwitting foreign journalists to influence policymakers and public sentiment abroad.
		"We are not recreating that office," said Thomas O'Connell, the assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict, the policy arm of the Pentagon that deals with the military's most secretive operators and whose staff wrote the document.
		But some critics of the former office voiced skepticism, saying that the contract amounted to a veiled attempt to create a low-budget copy of its ill-fated predecessor.
	www.globalexchange.org /countries/americas/unitedstates/democracy/1567.html (541 words)

	Pentagon's Office Of Lies And Disinformation - Still In Business The Free Flow Of Misinformation
		The Office of Strategic Influence went from obscurity to infamy to oblivion during a spin cycle that lasted just seven days.
		Coming to terms with a week of negative coverage after news broke that the Pentagon office might purposely deceive foreign media, a somber defense secretary announced: "It is being closed down." But for Donald Rumsfeld and his colleagues along the Potomac, the inky cloud of bad publicity has a big silver lining.
		As soon as Rumsfeld declared the Office of Strategic Influence to be null and void, some public-relations dividends began to flow.
	www.rense.com /general20/pent.htm (715 words)

	Office of Strategic Influence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Office of Strategic Influence started as the brainchild of the Defense Department and ended as an embarrassment for the Bush administration--all within a matter of months.
		The Department of Defense was to fund the Office of Strategic Influence from the emergency $10 billion Congress provided in October to fight the war on terrorism.
		The office closed in late March 2002 because of a backlash from American citizens and the media.
	iml.jou.ufl.edu /projects/Spring02/Rogover/office.htm (209 words)

	Strategic influence operations - SourceWatch
		"Strategic influence operations have historically been a government’s ability to further its national strategic goals and objectives internationally through an integrated, synchronized and Interagency-vetted information campaign using the tools of public diplomacy, public affairs and international Military Information (DoD Psychological Operations) as its media.
		Office of International Information Programs (IIP) ("supposed successor to the United States Information Agency, but is a replacement with limited public diplomacy resources, personnel and influence within the Department of State.")
		Strategic Communications Policy Coordinating Committee formed September 15, 2002 (National Security Council); "established on 10 September 2002 with the specific mission coordinating all U.S. informational policies and programs through an NSC directed interagency medium.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Strategic_influence_operations (386 words)

	CNN.com - New Pentagon office to spearhead information war - February 20, 2002
		WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Pentagon has established a new Office of Strategic Influence to market America's war on terrorism outside the United States, a Defense Department official said Tuesday.
		The office will set up policies for information operations and warfare that will then be carried out by military specialists to "influence the hearts and minds of the opposition," the official said, adding that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has yet to approve any plans for new information operations.
		The office was quietly set up after September 11 as part of the Bush administration's overall effort to reach Islamic populations around the world.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/US/02/19/gen.strategic.influence (372 words)

	The Simmons Voice - Opinion/Editorial :: Office of Strategic Influence Quickly Extinguished (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Then President George W. Bush spoke up, pledging that his administration would "tell the American people the truth." A day later, a cranky Rumsfeld announced that the Office of Strategic Influence would be closing due to negative commentaries and editorial cartoons about the office's proposed activities.
		What is known is that the office was created in November in an effort to better manage the distribution of military information overseas.
		Congressional aides told the Times that the office had been in the process of discussing the financing of as much as $100 million in activities, and that many of these activities would have been through other agencies, such as the State Department, that have limited budgets for information warfare.
	web.simmons.edu /~voice/op_edpage/40502_o1.html (549 words)

	projo.com \| Providence \| Opinion
		SECRETARY OF DEFENSE Donald Rumsfeld's abrupt abortion of the Office of Strategic Lying (a.k.a.
		the Office of Strategic Influence) -- in response to critics who feared for Washington's stellar reputation for honesty -- deserves to be ranked as one of the great propaganda coups of modern times.
		In all frankness, the only thing more dishonest than an Office of Strategic Influence aimed at deceiving foreigners is the suggestion that the Bush administration, or any other since World War II, likes to tell Americans the truth.
	www.projo.com /report/html/opinion/07156661.htm (1055 words)

	Office of Strategic Services -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		The ancestors of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Edo bakufu, were the Matsudaira, a Sengoku daimyo family from the mountainous region of Mikawa province (in present Aichi prefecture) who had built up their base as daimyo by advancing into the plains of Mikawa.
		The transformation of the office workplace since the late 1800s can be attributed largely to the harnessing of electricity to operate devices and machinery.
		Considers the variety of forces deployed in the Mediterranean, Europe, the Pacific, and the China-Burma-India theater, from commando units and guerrilla operations to the development of the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor of the Central Intelligence Agency.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article?tocId=9373913 (1011 words)

	Office of Strategic Influence - SourceWatch
		The Office of Strategic Influence (OSI) was "established shortly after the Sept.
		On February 26, 2002, Rumsfeld announced that the OSI was closed, telling reporters that "The office has clearly been so damaged that it is pretty clear to me that it could not function effectively,...
		The new office is the brainchild of senior Bush adviser Karen P. Hughes, architect of the administration's efforts to ensure a uniform message on domestic policy."
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Office_of_Strategic_Influence (978 words)

	DefenseLink News Release: RUMSFELD ADDRESSES STRATEGIC INFLUENCE CRITICISM
		Rumsfeld mentioned in his comments the Office of Strategic Influence, created in November 2001 to assist in crafting policy regarding the military aspects of information operations.
		The charter of the office is still under development.
		However, consistent with Defense Department policy, under no circumstances will the office or its contractors knowingly or deliberately disseminate false information to the American or foreign media or publics.
	www.defenselink.mil /Releases/Release.aspx?ReleaseID=3244 (149 words)

	America for Sale: The Office of Strategic Influence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Office of Strategic Influence went from obscurity to infamy to oblivion during a spin cycle that lasted just seven days in late February, 2002.
		Coming to terms with a week of negative coverage after news broke that the Pentagon office might purposely deceive foreign media, a somber defense secretary announced: "It is being closed down." But for Donald Rumsfeld and his colleagues along the Potomac, the inky cloud of bad publicity has a big silver lining.
		The OSI, under Feith's purview, was created in November, 2001 to aid U.S. efforts to influence countries overseas to help or at least support the war against global terrorism.
	www.americaforsale.org /mt/archives/000030.php (410 words)

	Pentagon Terminates Office of Strategic Influence
		Rumsfeld: Well, you know, there have been so many stories about this office, and commentary, some portion of which has contained inaccurate speculation and assertions that the office would -- could become involved in activities that the department has in fact not done, is not doing, and would not condone.
		And that office was serving as the linkage with the White House and the Department of State and the rest of the government on the subject of information.
		And Doug Feith properly decided that he felt that there ought to be an office of the Secretary of Defense, a civilian office, that monitored that activity.
	www.fas.org /sgp/news/2002/02/dod022602.html (867 words)

	InfoTechWarPeace \| 911 InfoInterventions - The Rise and Fall of the Office of Strategic Influence
		In March 2002 the InfoTechWarPeace Project launched this InfoIntervention on the rise and fall of the Office of Strategic Influence, one of the Pentagon's more blatant attempts to manage the perceptions of foreign media and policymakers through an infowar campaign of dissimulation and deception.
		Coming to terms with a week of negative coverage after news broke that the Pentagon office might purposely deceive foreign media, a somber defense secretary announced: "It is being closed down." But for Donald Rumsfeld and his colleagues along the Potomac, the inky cloud of bad publicity has a big silver lining..." 2.28.02 Read
		The Pentagon's Office of Strategic Influence was created in November to oversee military propaganda and other information- related operations, which could have blurred the line between public relations and covert actions..." 2.25.02 Read
	www.watsoninstitute.org /infopeace/911/index.cfm?id=9 (799 words)

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