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	Washington Business Forward - May 2002 - Government, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Rendon Group, a super-secretive firm that specializes in burnishing the image of the United States around the world, was hired in October to track news and views on the United States around the world - and it is still working on that contract.
		A spokeswoman confirms that the Rendon Group continues to work with the Pentagon, and she disputes the criticism of the OSI effort.
		According to news accounts, most of the Rendon Group's work has involved the Pentagon and CIA, beginning in 1989 when it was hired during the invasion of Panama to help with PR for the new U.S.-backed government.
	www.bizforward.com /wdc/issues/2002-05/government (1130 words)

	The Rendon Group - Letter to Editor
		The Rendon Group had a contract directly with the Government of Kuwait, had no association with Citizens for a Free Kuwait and had no association with their activities.
		Rendon does not have access to classified material in his home or via Internet, and his limited access to such material is no different from that of thousands of other DoD contractors who work for the US government.
		Rendon, the menu and the expensive French wine were all of Mr.
	www.rendon.com /letter.php (518 words)

	Meet John Rendon, Bush's general in the propaganda war /James Bamford, Rolling Stone [Candide's Notebooks]
		That is why Rendon was brought in." Acting as the group's senior adviser and aided by truckloads of CIA dollars, Rendon pulled together a wide spectrum of Iraqi dissidents and sponsored a conference in Vienna to organize them into an umbrella organization, which he dubbed the Iraqi National Congress.
		Rendon had flown halfway around the world to join nearly 600 friends and family who were gathered to say farewell to a local son and amateur football champ, Paul Moran.
		The Rendon Group asserts that it had "no role whatsoever in making the case for the Iraq war, here at home or internationally." In fact, the selling of a war in Iraq began with the creation of the Iraqi National Congress more than a decade ago and the installation of Ahmad Chalabi as its head.
	www.pierretristam.com /Bobst/library/wf-202.htm (7412 words)

	Rendon Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rendon shot across the Atlantic on the Concorde, while his subordinates flew on open business-class tickets.
		Rendon and Pentagon officials declined to discuss details of the firm's work, which included monitoring international news media, conducting focus groups and recommending "ways the US military can counter disinformation and improve its own public communications." All of which can be found in public Contracts between The Rendon Group and the Department of Defense.
		Francis Brooke worked in the mid-1990s on the Rendon Group's anti-Iraq campaign in London at a salary of $19,000 a month.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rendon_Group (1403 words)

	The Pentagon's Information Warrior: Rendon to the Rescue - Center for Media and Democracy
		The Rendon Group's contract with the Pentagon was awarded on a no-bid basis, reflecting the government's determination to hire a firm already versed in running overseas propaganda operations.
		Rendon specializes in "assisting corporations, organizations, and governments achieve their policy objectives." Past clients include the CIA, USAID, the government of Kuwait, Monsanto Chemical Company, and the official trade agencies of countries including Bulgaria, Russia, and Uzbekistan.
		In dollar terms, Rendon's Pentagon contract resembles the $100,000 monthly retainer that it received in the early 1990s from the Kuwaiti government as part of a multi-million-dollar PR campaign denouncing Iraq's 1990 invasion and mobilizing public support for Operation Desert Storm.
	www.prwatch.org /prwissues/2001Q4/rendon.html (1527 words)

	Unknown News
		Rendon has, however, played a substantial role in the Pentagon's efforts to track and shape media coverage of the Iraq and Afghan conflicts and the war on terror.
		The Rendon Group's costs were an issue among CIA staff members during the group's earlier work with the CIA and Pentagon.
		The Rendon Group is playing a major behind-the-scenes role at the Democratic National Convention in Boston, arranging first-time/real-time video broadcasts each morning to each of the 56 caucuses, serving as the event's project manager, and coordinating 20 convention-related events, Rick Rendon, co-founder of the firm, told O'Dwyer's.
	www.unknownnews.org /0511151113RendonGroup.html (1199 words)

	"Perception Management" = "Strategic Influence" = Propaganda = The Rendon Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Rendon made considerable headway with the INC, but following the group's failed coup attempt against Saddam in 1996, the CIA lost confidence in Chalabi and cut off his monthly paycheck.
		A key weapon, according to the documents, was Rendon's ‘proprietary state-of-the-art news-wire collection system called “Livewire,” which takes real-time news-wire reports, as they are filed, before they are on the Internet, before CNN can read them on the air and twenty-four hours before they appear in the morning newspapers, and sorts them by keyword.
		The contract called for the Rendon Group to undertake a massive ‘media mapping’ campaign against the news organization, which the Pentagon considered ‘critical to U.S. objectives in the War on Terrorism.’ According to the contract, Rendon would provide a ‘detailed content analysis of the station's daily broadcast.
	homepage.mac.com /ernestfuentes/iblog/C1785030123/E20051126181755 (1388 words)

	Council of Public Relations Firms: Resources: PR in the News: John Redon's Shallow... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Rendon, who cut his teeth as a political consultant, specializes in exploiting the technology of American campaigns--focus groups, voter databases, rapid-response teams.
		Rendon's early campaigns abroad resembled Saul Bellow's Henderson, with direct mail, polling, and the rest of the foreigner's technology dazzling the natives.
		Rendon wasn't exactly the brains of the operation--Chalabi ran the group--but he was the man whispering in Chalabi's ear.
	www.prfirms.org /resources/news/redon051402.asp (3841 words)

	CorpWatch : US: Firm Helps Pentagon Mold News Abroad
		Rendon once received a CIA contract of $20 million to $40 million, according to former employees, to advise the then-London-based Iraqi National Congress and its leader, Ahmad Chalabi.
		Rendon said his firm has not "pushed" news favorable to the United States The firm's main advisory work, he said, "has been helping foreign governments to correct things that are bad or wrong in the news cycle, and amplify those things that are not bad."
		Rendon became involved in shaping the relationship between the U.S. military and local communities in 2001, when it was given a $1.6 million Navy contract to help win over residents of Puerto Rico's Vieques Island.
	www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=12785 (1664 words)

	Meet The Man Who Sold The Iraq War
		By the time he pulls up to the Rendon Group's headquarters near Dupont Circle, he has already racked up a handsome fee for the morning's work: According to federal records, Rendon charges the CIA and the Pentagon $311.26 an hour for his services.
		Rendon is one of the most influential of the private contractors in Washington who are increasingly taking over jobs long reserved for highly trained CIA employees.
		Rendon's job was to work behind the scenes, using a variety of campaign and psychological techniques to put the CIA's choice, Guillermo Endara, into the presidential palace.
	www.rense.com /general68/sold.htm (5723 words)

	AlterNet: MediaCulture: Propaganda, the Pentagon, and the Rendon Group
		Rendon has had a lot of plum assignments since Desert Storm, including a $23 million propaganda campaign in 1991 aimed at undermining Saddam Hussein with smuggled leaflets and radio broadcasts beamed into Iraq.
		No one at the Pentagon, the White House, or The Rendon Group would respond to a reporter’s call asking whether the idea could be resuscitated elsewhere, or whether The Rendon Group’s contract had been canceled or transferred.
		A spokeswoman for The Rendon Group said John Rendon "won’t talk about clients," with whom "confidentiality agreements go on forever." As to allegations of financial irregularities in the INC account, she could say only that, "if anything not proper had occured, the company would not have been able to contract with the government again....
	www.alternet.org /mediaculture/12514 (1890 words)

	Asia Times
		It was one of many disinformation schemes cooked up by the Rendon Group, which has worked for both Democratic and Republican administrations fighting the psy-op war in the Middle East.
		Not that the Rendon Group was the first purveyor of psy-op tactics for promoting US foreign policy in the region.
		After convening a number of focus groups to try to figure out which buttons to press to make the public respond, HandK determined that presentations involving the mistreatment of infants, a tactic drawn straight from W R Hearst's playbook of the Spanish-American War, received the best reaction.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/DK13Ak01.html (1671 words)

	War Propaganda and the Capture of Saddam Hussein
		The choice of the Rendon Group to advise the Pentagon may not be a coincidence given its past work on behalf of the Iraqi opposition.
		In all likelihood, The Rendon Group played a role in mounting the media spin for the Pentagon's "Liberation of Baghdad" disinformation campaign on April 8th, including the pulling down of the statue of Saddam on Fardhus square.
		More generally, the Rendon group is one of the main media companies involved in bidding for the "reconstruction" of Iraq's media and information system including newspapers, TV and Radio.
	globalresearch.ca /articles/CHO312B.html (2946 words)

	John Rendon - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		John Rendon is CEO of Rendon Group (TRG) and a self-described "information warrior." He was formerly Executive Director and National Political Director for the Democratic Party of the United States, Director of Scheduling for President Jimmy Carter, and Analyst for American Political System for BBC World TV.
		Stewart Brand and his Long Now Foundation brought John Rendon to San Francisco for a rare public address on July 14, 2006, promoting him and his CIA and Pentagon-funded work in the war on terror.
		Rendon Group, "Letter to the Editor of Rolling Stone Magazine", November 18, 2005.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=John_Rendon (350 words)

	Media Beat: War Needs Good Public Relations
		At the Rendon Group, a public-relations firm with offices in Boston and Washington, pleasant news arrived the other day with a $397,000 contract to help the Pentagon look good while bombing Afghanistan.
		Rendon proudly notes that it provided "community and media relations counsel to the Monsanto Chemical Company in its effort to clean up several contaminated sites." Overseas, Rendon helped the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation to cope with labor strife and bad press when closing a refinery in Naples, Italy.
		Now, the Rendon Group is facing what is perhaps its most challenging project yet -- spinning for a war in Afghanistan.
	www.fair.org /media-beat/011025.html (893 words)

	Democracy Now! \| The Man Who Sold the Iraq War: John Rendon, Bush's General in the Propaganda War
		The firm is the Rendon Group and it's founder and CEO is John Rendon - the former Executive Director of the Democratic National Committee.
		And how this comes full circle is that the Rendon Group created the I.N.C., put in Chalabi in there, and then now we have December of 2001, right after the September 11 attacks, and while the administration is gearing up to sort of get the public behind the administration in going into war in Iraq.
		Rendon told me that they analyze something like 143 newspapers and a lot of broadcast media around the world and that he prides himself on being able to get to policy makers information on what news organizations all over the world are going to do six hours before they actually do it.
	www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=05/11/21/1516257 (4283 words)

	Citizen Works - The Rendon Group
		Founder John Rendon is a seasoned war propagandist who was in Panama City for the attack on Noriega and in Kuwait for the ousting of Saddam Hussein during the Persian Gulf War.
		The Rendon Group established the Iraqi National Congress as a front group in the early 1990s.
		In 2001, the Rendon Group was hired by the Pentagon to win over the hearts and minds of Arabs and Muslims worldwide.
	www.citizenworks.org /corp/rendon.php (147 words)

	CorpWatch : Information Warriors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Rick Rendon, the man in charge of the party, chatted casually with his clients: the Time Warner executives, including chairman Richard Parsons, who paid him to stage the event in honor of a powerful Congresswoman from California: Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader.
		Rick Rendon's career with the Democratic party dates back at least 24 years to the 1980 New York convention where his job was keeping track of delegates.
		Like the Rendon Group's presence on the web, which features two completely different websites, one domestic and one international, John and Rick appear to work in two distinct orbits, Boston and Washington.
	www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=11486 (2320 words)

	Pat Thurston's Radio Weblog
		That was before I discovered that the Rendon Group had taken a keen interest in my blog, and before I discovered what the Rendon Group was.
		This Group had already made a fortune off government contracts since 1991, when the firm was hired by the CIA to help create the conditions to remove Hussein from power.
		The Rolling Stone claims that in an operation directed by Ahmad Chalabi (the guy the Rendon Group helped install as leader of the INC), al-Haideri was brought to Thailand, and met with the group's spokesman, Zaab Sethna, who was well trained to coach defectors on their stories, and preparing them for polygraph exams.
	radio.weblogs.com /0145903/2006/06/13.html (2855 words)

	On The Media-- HIRED HAND
		According to James Bamford, in an article in the current issue of Rolling Stone Magazine, the Rendon Group is largely responsible for creating and spreading misinformation used by the White House to justify the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
		The Rendon Group brought the people together, created the organization, gave it its name, acted as paymaster for the group, helped install the leader of it, Ahmad Chalabi, and then acted as the senior advisor to the INC throughout much of the 1990s, and was their media advisor during much of this time.
		What the facts show is that Rendon created the INC, put Chalabi in there, advised him during most of the 1990s, and it was the INC who created this pretext for war, basically.
	www.onthemedia.org /transcripts/transcripts_120205_hand.html (906 words)

	Dr. Peter Rost: Am I Crazy Paranoid . . . ?
		Rendon's activities include organizing the Iraqi National Congress, a PR front group designed to foment the overthrow of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
		Early Warning Radar (EWR)The Rendon Group recognizes the value of precise situational awareness as the foundation for attuned message development and focused rapid response.
		Rendon, as they suggest, try to do the EWR thing, so when you come up on the radar as you have, you will get tracked, and you have chosen to do so publicly.
	peterrost.blogspot.com /2006/06/am-i-crazy-paranoid.html (1894 words)

	Hotline On Call: Rendon = The Key?
		From Today's Hotline: A deeper reading of this profile of Rendon leads some to wonder if he is actually the "source of the Nile" on the selling of questionable intel which led to the Iraq War.
		Rendon's office "also worked closely with the" WH "Iraq Group, whose high-level members," including ex-VP CoS Scooter Libby, "were responsible for selling the war to the American public."
		What about the fact that the DNC paid the Rendon Group upwards of 1 million dollars to help with the '04 Convention in Boston.
	hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com /archives/2005/11/rendon_the_key.html (501 words)

	Information Warriors
		Rendon Group wins hearts and minds in business, politics and war.
		A Village Voice article revealed that the Rendon group hired a Harvard graduate student to help them on the project, although some of the productions were ill conceived.
		Rick Rendon refused to comment on the role of Moran or any of the Rendon Group’s work in Iraq.
	gnn.tv /articles/151/Information_Warriors (2422 words)

	War and Piece:
		This story is just waiting to come out, not only about Rendon's role in the renamed successor to the Office of Strategic Influence, but the fact that the propaganda project was not shut down for months after lawmakers demanded it be, but just went underground in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
		Thanks to a mis-sent email by a Rendon Group contractor working on the underground propaganda successor OSI project from the Pentagon basement to "all", there are a lot of people at the Pentagon who know about this.
		And since a lot of the Rendon employees working on this propaganda project were contractors, I was told, they were pretty much all canned on their behind the next day, no benefits.
	www.warandpiece.com /blogdirs/003117.html (523 words)

	Quick Rise for Purveyors of Propaganda in Iraq \| theledger.com
		Lincoln formed a partnership with The Rendon Group, a Washington company with close ties to the Bush administration, and won a $5 million Pentagon contract to help inform Iraqis about the American-led effort to defeat the insurgency and form a new government.
		Although Lincoln Group's work in Iraq is now under scrutiny in two Pentagon investigations, the firm is hunting for more government work.
		Bailey attended a going-away reception at the Virginia condominium of a mid-level government employee on her way to a new job at the American Embassy in Baghdad.
	www.theledger.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060215/ZNYT03/602150405 (4114 words)

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