John Rendon

To peddle the invasion, Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell and company recruited public relations gurus into top-level jobs at the Pentagon and the .... As part of this CIA project, Rendon created and named the Iraqi National Congress and tapped his friend Ahmed Chalabi, the shady financier, to head the ...

One day after Iraq invaded Kuwait, the Wexler Group, headed by Craig Fuller, was acquired by Hill & Knowlton, the most powerful public relations lobbying firm in Washington, .... The Rendon Group was headed by John Rendon, a former Democratic National Committee director turned self-described “information warrior.

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The war on Iraq won't be remembered for how it was waged so much as for how it was sold. It was a propaganda war, a war of perception management, where loaded phrases, such as “weapons of mass destruction” and “rogue state” were hurled like precision weapons at the target audience: us.

In 2001, the Rendon Group, headed by John Rendon, was secretly granted a $16 million contract to target Iraq with propaganda. Rendon, who had been hired by the CIA to help create conditions to removal Saddam Hussein from power, is a leader in “perception management”. Two months later, in ...

Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi, who played a key role in pushing for the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, has died at the age of 71. Chalabi was the former head of the Iraqi National Congress, a CIA-funded Iraqi exile group that helped drum up pre-war claims that Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of ...

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Alex Chadwick speaks with investigative journalist James Bamford, who in a new article for Rolling Stone magazine uncovers a larger Pentagon effort to sway public opinion in Iraq. Bamford's article, "The Man Who Sold the War," focuses on John Rendon, who Bamford alleges was behind the marketing of ...

In it, investigative journalist James Bamford looks at the role of one of the most powerful public relations firms in Washington D.C in setting the stage for the Iraq 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.

Now Congress is investigating the widespread use of public relations agencies and the buying of pundits to push the government's agenda. ... In Afghanistan, founder John Rendon joined a 9:30 conference call every morning with top-level Pentagon officials to set the day's war message. Rendon ...

The company, which has offices in Boston and Washington DC, is run by four senior staff: Rick Rendon, his brother John Rendon, his sister-in-law Sandra Libby and David Perkins, who formerly worked for the .... But as in most public relations efforts the surface message is not necessarily the ultimate purpose of a campaign.

The company, which has offices in Boston and Washington DC, is run by four senior staff: Rick Rendon, his brother John Rendon, his sister-in-law Sandra Libby and David Perkins, who .... But as in most public relations efforts the surface message is not necessarily the ultimate purpose of a campaign.