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	Otto Reich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Otto Juan Reich (born October 16, 1945), a Cuban-American, is former senior official in the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.
		Reich is a highly controversial figure because of his fervent anti-Castro ideology and his questionable activities in support of the Reagan administration's Central American policies.
		Reich was born in Cuba to a Cuban mother and an Austrian-Jewish father, Walter Reich, whose parents died in the Holocaust and who had fled to Cuba in 1938.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Otto_Reich (1131 words)

	Friends of terrorism \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		Otto Reich is a rightwing Cuban American whose key policy objective is the overthrow of Fidel Castro's regime and whose support base is the Cuban-American community in Florida.
		Otto Reich came to prominence during the Reagan administration when he was appointed head of the office of public diplomacy within the state department.
		Reich also served as US ambassador to Venezuela and was alleged to have used his influence to try and get a US visa for a convicted terrorist, Orlando Bosch, jailed in Venezuela in 1976 for the bombing of a Cubana airliner with 73 people on board.
	www.guardian.co.uk /bush/story/0,7369,646883,00.html (1144 words)

	They Otto Be Ashamed
		Reich was appointed by President Bush as assistant secretary of state for western hemispheric affairs.
		Reich, a Cuban-American and a strident anti-Communist, has irritated Democrats including former Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.), because of Reich's support for the Cuban economic embargo and the Nicaraguan Contra rebels in the 1980s, who fought against the Sandinista government which was later deposed.
		Reich is quoted as saying that the Sandinistas' links to communists and leftist guerillas and its election loss are a defense of his actions: "Some of them (establishment media) may have been embarrassed by the information that we put out which proved what they were saying at the time was incorrect.
	conwebwatch.tripod.com /stories/2003/cnsreich.html (707 words)

	Public Diplomacy and Covert Propaganda: The Otto Reich File
		Reich served in the Reagan administration as assistant administrator of the Agency for International Development (AID) from 1981 to 1983, then as the first director of the State Department’s Office of Public Diplomacy for Latin America and the Caribbean (S/LPD) from 1983 to 1986, and finally as ambassador to Venezuela.
		Reich testified that he “never saw it as a tasking memorandum” and that he was unaware that his contractors were involved in lobbying efforts or ads targeted on specific members of Congress.
		Otto J. Reich (Office of Public Diplomacy) to Col. David Brown, Executive Secretary, Office of the Secretary of Defense, [Request for Detail of Military Officers to Office of Public Diplomacy], September 18, 1985, 2 pp.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB40 (1284 words)

	ZNet \| Latin America \| Latin America's Dilemma: Otto Reich's Propaganda is Reminiscent of the Third Reich
		Reich, along with fellow Reagan administration cohorts, Elliott Abrams and John Negroponte, were discredited for their covert activities and false assertions when the United States intervened in Central America in the 1980's and '90s, but have been re-instated in prominent positions in the second Bush administration.
		Reich's operation violated "a restriction on the State Department's annual appropriations prohibiting the use of federal funds for publicity or propaganda purposes not authorized by Congress." Reich used the covert propaganda to demonize the democratically elected Sandinista government of Nicaragua and establish the Contras as fearless freedom fighters.
		With Otto Reich churning out the hate and fear, it is a safe bet to predict that President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela will be increasingly presented as the devil incarnate and his government as evil, anti-American terrorists.
	www.zmag.org /content/LatinAmerica/Turnipseedlam.cfm (1001 words)

	ZNet Commentary: Otto Reich’s Appointment
		I once debated Otto Reich on a Colorado TV station and afterwards our differences became downright sour, so I can testify to the fact that he was and is a confrontational intransigent, a man who worked hand in glove with fanatics like retired Gen. John Singlaub and Lt. Col.
		Reich subsequently served the public interest by lobbying for the tobacco industry, selling arms to third world countries and serving the cause of the Bacardi (rum) family as a kind of personal emissary for the booze giants.
		Reich stands out as the embodiment of blatant, sword heavy imperialism that cost the lives of more than 100,000 Central Americans in the 1980s, an imperialism that maintains an irrational embargo and travel ban on Cuba and, most dramatically, places narrow domestic interests over the larger international good.
	www.zmag.org /sustainers/content/2002-02/15landau.cfm (1329 words)

	Otto Reich: A Career in Disservice - Council on Hemispheric Affairs
		Reich built a murky relationship with predatory big business interests including Bacardi Rum and Lockheed-Martin, and an array of questionable private Cuban-American militant groups, as both a private lobbyist in the 1990s and later as a candidate to be Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs in President George W. Bushâs State Department.
		Reichâs seeming inability to easily distinguish between the boundaries of public and private funds and his repeated indifference to ethical standards was again exhibited upon his return to government in 2001.
		Reichâs connection to the U.S. intelligence agencies and reputation asone of the Bush administrationâs master conspirators and disinformation specialists leads many to suspect that he played an important role in Jean Bertrand Aristideâs fall from favor in the international media, and in fostering international support for the Haitian rebels.
	www.coha.org /2004/07/13/otto-reich-a-career-in-disservice (3124 words)

	Otto Juan Reich - SourceWatch
		"Between 1983-1986, Reich was selected by the veteran CIA agent and propaganda specialist, Walter Raymond, to run the notorious Office of Public Diplomacy (OPD), a covert psychological and media spinning unit which reported to Colonel Oliver North at the National Security Council.
		In 1996 Reich and Jonathan Miller, his former colleague at the Office of Public Diplomacy, formed RMA International, a corporate public relations and political lobbying company.
		"Reich is also president of the US-Cuba Business Council an organisation established with the support of Bacardi in 1993, and the recipients of $520,000 worth of US government aid for its support for the maintenance of the US embargo on Cuba.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Otto_Reich (634 words)

	BIOGRAPHY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Otto Juan Reich was sworn in as Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs on January 11, 2002.
		From 1989 to 2001, Ambassador Reich was in private practice, advising U.S. and multinational clients on government relations, market access and strategic planning, as a partner in the Brock Group and later as President of his own consulting firm.
		From 1986 to 1989 Ambassador Reich served as Ambassador to Venezuela, for which he received the highest awards of both the State Department and the Republic of Venezuela.
	uruguay.usembassy.gov /bioreicheng.htm (330 words)

	Deroy Murdock on Otto Reich on National Review Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Otto Reich, Bush's nominee for assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, is being held hostage by Sen. Christopher Dodd (D., Conn.) who refuses to hold a confirmation hearing on Reich's candidacy.
		He has hurled at Reich a number of easily refuted ethical charges pertaining to his 1980s service as director of State's Office of Public Diplomacy and as Ambassador to Venezuela.
		With Otto Reich at his side, Bush should walk into the White House press room and remind his loyal opposition that bipartisanship — especially to crush regional terrorists — should be a two-way street, not a Republican alley beside a Democratic freeway.
	www.nationalreview.com /murdock/murdock112901.shtml (694 words)

	REMARKS BY OTTO REICH, A/S FOR WHA AT CSIS
		REICH'S STAFF: Yes, if people are interested -- (inaudible) -- Ambassador Allgeier in the context of the discussions, there was an agreement with Argentina to resolve eight of the issues that had been part of our complaint in the WTO, not that of confidentiality, which should be of interest to Eli Lilly.
		REICH: Well, the U.S. agency, of course, the department that handles the day-to-day relationship with the IMF is the Treasury Department and they are in constant communication.
		REICH: Uh -- that's -- (laughter) -- I think that Brazil realizes, as a -- as a major economic power in the world, that its future is best guaranteed by an expansion, a continuation and expansion of the kind of industrial diversity, for example, that I -- that I was talking about earlier.
	uruguay.usembassy.gov /csisreich.htm (7282 words)

	The Fall of Otto Reich
		OTTO J. REICH got a surprise when he returned from Brazil last month: He was no longer assistant secretary of state for the Western Hemisphere.
		Reich was shaped by his experiences in the Reagan administration and in Cuba as a boy when Fidel Castro's revolution forced his family into exile.
		Reich has frequently criticized him, and when some inept plotters tried to overthrow Chavez in April, the United States - with Reich at the State Department - did not initially denounce the attempt.
	www.commondreams.org /views02/1218-04.htm (609 words)

	Foreign Policy In Focus \| Global Affairs Commentary \| Otto Reich's Dirty Laundry
		Liberal groups with a memory of Iran-contra mobilized to stop the nomination, claiming that Reich had only one current interest in the hemisphere and that is the return to Cuba of capitalism.
		Reich joined WRAP at its inception, associating himself with an operation that connects some of the unsavory elements of the cold war with a new, PR-driven approach to sustaining non-union sweatshop production.
		In any case, Otto Reich shows that he is indeed not merely focused on preserving the Cuba boycott.
	www.fpif.org /commentary/0104reich_body.html (1181 words)

	Otto Reich Associates, LLC - Washington DC
		AMBASSADOR OTTO J. Otto Juan Reich is President of Otto Reich Associates, LLC, of Washington, DC, a consulting firm which provides international government relations, trade and investment advice to US and multinational clients.
		From 1989 to 2001, Ambassador Reich was a private consultant, advising clients on international government relations, market access and strategic planning, first as a partner in the Brock Group and later as President of his own consulting firm.
		In the 1980’s, Reich received three appointments from President Ronald Reagan: From 1986 to 1989 he served as U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela, for which he was awarded the highest commendations of both the State Department and the Republic of Venezuela.
	www.ottoreichassociates.com /bio.htm (481 words)

	'Cold warrior' at heart of Cuba crackdown \| LJWorld.com
		Otto Reich, White House special envoy for the Western Hemisphere, answers questions during a news conference in Panama City, Panama, in this Jan. 21, 2004, file photo.
		Reich is one of several Cuban-Americans appointed to key positions in the Bush administration.
		Reich was in charge of the propaganda effort aimed at winning support for Reagan's policies supporting the Contras in Nicaragua.
	www.ljworld.com /section/citynews/story/162559 (1548 words)

	Update: April 9, 2001- World Policy Institute - Research Project
		Reich would return to the State Department from a position as the president of an Arlington, VA based lobbying firm, RMA International, whose clients include liquor, tobacco and arms firms.
		Reich, the architect of the regressive 1998 Helms-Burton act, has also been rewarded with a $600,000 consulting fee by his client Barcardi-Martini, which can sue its competitors for doing business in Cuba under Helms-Burton.
		Otto Reich, in his capacity as Co-Chair of the Center for Strategic and International Studies Americas Forum, recently released a report outlining Presidential Priorities and Opportunities in the Americas.
	www.worldpolicy.org /projects/arms/updates/ottoreich.htm (681 words)

	AlterNet: Election 2004: The Reich Stuff
		Reich, along with Elliot Abrams and John Negroponte, was one of a trio of Iran/Contra alumni to re-emerge in the Bush Administration as Latin America policy operatives, something reporter Bart Jones pointed out in a January 2003 piece in the National Catholic Reporter.
		From 1981 to 1983, Reich served in the Reagan administration as assistant administrator of the Agency for International Development (AID) and then became the first director of the State Department’s Office of Public Diplomacy for Latin America and the Caribbean, where he served until 1986.
		At the OPD, Reich “manufactured op-eds that were passed off to the U.S. media under the name of Nicaraguan rebel leaders as he berated editors and journalists he deemed too soft on the Sandinistas or too tough on the Reagan administration,” wrote Alec Dubro of Foreign Policy in Focus.
	www.alternet.org /election04/18627 (1358 words)

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		But Reich, 55, also is distrusted by many in Congress who say the office he headed in the State Department in the 1980s covertly generated propaganda to influence Congress and the U.S. public in support of the Reagan administration's anti-communist policies in Nicaragua and the rest of Central America.
		Reich headed the State Department's office of public diplomacy in the mid-1980s, he was accused by Congress of engaging in "prohibited, covert propaganda activities" in his efforts to promote the Reagan administration's policies toward Nicaragua.
		Otto Reich, who headed the Public Diplomacy office when the IBC contracts were awarded, said that despite the finding of procedural violations, the State Department's internal report "clears the department" of allegations that government funds were spent illegally to lobby Congress through IBC.
	www.afrocubaweb.com /ottoreich.htm (5724 words)

	The GULLY \| US \| Bush's Latin America Czar Rides High
		The Office, headed by Reich, was set up by President Reagan to sell the contras to the American public as freedom-fighters, and to counter domestic criticism of U.S. involvement in the Central American civil wars.
		Reich is also said to have personally harassed journalists critical of the administration's Central American policies.
		On the Hill, a chorus of critics maintained that Reich was an anti-Communist ideologue unsuited for a job that required bipartisan finesse.
	www.thegully.com /essays/US/politics/020124_otto_reich.html (1421 words)

	CubaCentral :: Missing in Action: Otto Reich
		Nominated in March 2001, the Cuban-born Reich was always a controversial choice for a region that President Bush boasted would become a high priority for his new administration.
		For his liberal enemies, Reich was a lightning rod for criticism because of his anti-Castro fervor and his role in the bitter ideological battles of the 1980s.
		Reich is one of the most undiplomatic people in charge of diplomacy and he seems to revel in that role.
	www.cubacentral.com /todaysnewsdetail.cfm?ID=20 (1241 words)

	Venezuela-US Relations Will Not be Affected by Otto Reich’s Statements
		Reich declared that Venezuela is undergoing "the worst crisis of Latin America", that "two thirds of Venezuelans reject President Hugo Chavez" and that the opposition managed to collect "up to four million signatures" to request a referendum against the President.
		Otto Reich continues his attacks on President Chavez in spite of actions in the opposite direction by other US government officials.
		Reich is described by many as a right-wing Cuban-American who is obsessed with overthrowing Cuban president Fidel Castro, and is reported to be heavily supported by wealthy Cuban-American elites in south Florida.
	www.venezuelanalysis.com /news.php?newsno=1139 (1320 words)

	Foreign Policy In Focus \| The Republican Rule \| Profiles
		Reich, who is director of the Washington-based Center for a Free Cuba, is politically obsessed with one issue: Cuba.
		Reich was vocal as well during the Elian Gonzales affair, accusing Fidel Castro of "running" U.S. foreign policy and of preventing Elian's father from coming to Florida.
		Reich's only diplomatic posting was as a single-term ambassador to Venezuela from 1986-89, at the height of the Iran-contra scandal.
	www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org /republicanrule/officials_body.html (8442 words)

	Yikes! It’s Otto Reich -- In These Times
		Reich’s nomination bodes ill, first for Latin Americans who must fear his support of the region’s most extreme political forces (he is director of the Center for a Free Cuba in Washington), and second for Americans (particularly journalists) who were the object of Reich’s covert attentions in the ’80s.
		Reich served the Reagan administration from 1983 to 1986 as director of the newly created Office of Public Diplomacy for Latin America and the Caribbean.
		Otto Reich’s nomination is one that all defenders of a free press should oppose.
	www.inthesetimes.com /site/main/article/yikes_its_otto_reich (687 words)

	Democratic Underground Forums - "Stop the Confirmation of Otto Reich"
		They are Otto Reich (who has been nominated officially) and John Negroponte (Negroponte has since been confirmed as US Ambassador to the UN.
		Otto Juan Reich, who was the first director of the State Department's Office of Public Diplomacy (OPD) for Latin America and the Caribbean from 1983 to 1986, has been nominated for the post of Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs.
		Reich was accused by Congress in 1987 of engaging in "prohibited, covert propaganda activities" in his efforts to promote the Reagan administration's policies toward Nicaragua.
	www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID34/55.html (361 words)

	Otto Reich: Propagandist Or Honest Broker? -- 02/04/2002
		Reich admits, "I had to be quite aggressive in countering some of the lack of information, and in some cases, wrong information that some members of the media and some members of Congress had about what was going on in those regions."
		Reich also helped draft the controversial Helms-Burton law, which allows Americans to file lawsuits against any Cubans benefiting from property that was seized by the Castro revolutionaries in 1959.
		Reich has previously served as the assistant administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development and as a special advisor to former Reagan Secretary of State George Shultz, during which time he established and managed the interagency Office of Public Diplomacy for Latin America and the Caribbean.
	www.cnsnews.com /Politics/Archive/200202/POL20020204b.html (1509 words)

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