RendonGroup

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The Rendon Group (TRG) is a Global Strategic Communications Consultancy providing products and services to both public and private sector clients. TRG's expertise includes strategic communications consultation, planning and evaluation; information strategy and operations; public and media relations planning and implementation; crisis management; news collection and analysis; information mapping; survey research; media production; and tactical communications team deployment. Among their clients: Department of Defense, The United Nations, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Air Intelligence Agency (AIA), CIA, Usaid, the Government of Kuwait, Monsanto Chemical Company, and the official trade agencies of countries including Bulgaria, Russia, and Uzbekistan http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2001Q4/rendon.html In the early 1990s Rendon supported 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.

ClandestineRadio.com, a website which monitors underground and anti-government radio stations in countries throughout the world, credits the Rendon Group with "designing and supervising" the Iraqi Broadcasting Corporation (IBC) and Radio Hurriah, which began broadcasting Iraqi opposition propaganda in January 1992 from a US government transmitter in Kuwait. The Wall Street Journal reported on November 8, 2001, that the Army's "4th Psychological Operations (Psyops) group" designed leaflets and radio broadcasts inside Afghanistan "to persuade enemy fighters to quit, and to convince civilians that U.S. bombs raining down on their country will result in a better future for their families." In December 2002, O'Dwyer's PR Daily reported, that the Rendon Group had re-launched their website, "after a seven-month hiatus". Already hired by the Pentagon to a $100K a-month contract following Sept. 11, they started to work in Iraq again, spreading radio propaganda and helping to distribute leaflets. Source: http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2001Q4/rendon.html

Rendon links: http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2001Q4/rendon.html http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?020311fa_FACT Rick Rendon http://www.event-solutions.com/articles/2002-06-RickRendon.html http://www.clandestineradio.com/dossier/iraq/index.html Compare: Rendon Group had TWA800 tape: http://www.ntsb.gov/events/TWA800/agenda.htm Hill & Knowlton http://www.hillandknowlton.com/

The Fake Translations: "...twice a week, for US$3,000 a month, the Iraqi student says, under condition of anonymity, that he took a taxi from his campus apartment to a Boston-area recording studio rented by the Rendon Group, a DC-based public relations firm with close ties to the US government. His job: translate and dub spoofed Saddam Hussein speeches and tongue-in-cheek newscasts for broadcast throughout Iraq...." Source: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/DK13Ak01.html

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