Office of Strategic Influence - Revision history

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David: /* Affiliations */

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Claire Robinson: /* Closure */

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Claire Robinson: /* Black propaganda role */

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Black propaganda role

Claire Robinson at 10:49, 10 August 2009

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 The [[Office of Strategic Influence]] was a propaganda unit set up within the US [[Department of Defense]] shortly after the September 11 attacks.<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06EFD71F3FF93AA25751C0A9649C8B63&scp=1&sq=%22office+of+strategic+influence%22&st=nyt  A NATION CHALLENGED: HEARTS AND MINDS; PENTAGON READIES EFFORTS TO SWAY SENTIMENT ABROAD], by James Dao and Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 19 February 2002.</ref>
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 ==Affiliations==
 *[[Rendon Group]]
-See also [[Information Operations Taskforce]]
+See also [[Information Operations Task Force]]
 ==Notes==
 <references/>
 [[Category:US Propaganda]]

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 ==Affiliations==
 *[[Rendon Group]]
 ==Notes==
 <references/>
 [[Category:US Propaganda]]

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 ==Closure==
-[[Donald Rumsfeld]] announced the closure of the office on 26 February 2002:
+[[Donald Rumsfeld]] announced the closure of the Office on 26 February 2002:
 ::Mr. Rumsfeld moved swiftly to quell a controversy that threatened to undermine the entire Defense Department's public credibility. Asked today if the Pentagon's integrity had been compromised, Mr. Rumsfeld said: 'I doubt it. I hope not. If it has, we'll rebuild it.'

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 ==Black propaganda role==
-An article in the New York Times comments on the Office's black propaganda role:
+An article in the New York Times commented on the Office's black propaganda role:
 ::One of the office's proposals calls for planting news items with foreign media organizations through outside concerns that might not have obvious ties to the Pentagon, officials familiar with the proposal said.

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		+	An article in the New York Times comments on the Office's black propaganda role:
	::One of the office's proposals calls for planting news items with foreign media organizations through outside concerns that might not have obvious ties to the Pentagon, officials familiar with the proposal said.		::One of the office's proposals calls for planting news items with foreign media organizations through outside concerns that might not have obvious ties to the Pentagon, officials familiar with the proposal said.

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−	The [[Office of Strategic Influence]] is a propaganda unit set up within the US [[Department of Defense]] shortly after the September 11 attacks.<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06EFD71F3FF93AA25751C0A9649C8B63&scp=1&sq=%22office+of+strategic+influence%22&st=nyt A NATION CHALLENGED: HEARTS AND MINDS; PENTAGON READIES EFFORTS TO SWAY SENTIMENT ABROAD], by James Dao and Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 19 February 2002.</ref>	+	The [[Office of Strategic Influence]] was a propaganda unit set up within the US [[Department of Defense]] shortly after the September 11 attacks.<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06EFD71F3FF93AA25751C0A9649C8B63&scp=1&sq=%22office+of+strategic+influence%22&st=nyt A NATION CHALLENGED: HEARTS AND MINDS; PENTAGON READIES EFFORTS TO SWAY SENTIMENT ABROAD], by James Dao and Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 19 February 2002.</ref>

	The office reported to Under Secretary of Defence for Policy [[Douglas Feith]] and co-ordinated its work with the White House counter-terrorism office run by General [[Wayne A. Downing]], who had previously been in charge of over-seeing the military's covert operations. Among the units assigned to carry out the Office's operations was the Army's [[Psychological Operations Command]].<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06EFD71F3FF93AA25751C0A9649C8B63&scp=1&sq=%22office+of+strategic+influence%22&st=nyt A NATION CHALLENGED: HEARTS AND MINDS; PENTAGON READIES EFFORTS TO SWAY SENTIMENT ABROAD], by James Dao and Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 19 February 2002.</ref>		The office reported to Under Secretary of Defence for Policy [[Douglas Feith]] and co-ordinated its work with the White House counter-terrorism office run by General [[Wayne A. Downing]], who had previously been in charge of over-seeing the military's covert operations. Among the units assigned to carry out the Office's operations was the Army's [[Psychological Operations Command]].<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06EFD71F3FF93AA25751C0A9649C8B63&scp=1&sq=%22office+of+strategic+influence%22&st=nyt A NATION CHALLENGED: HEARTS AND MINDS; PENTAGON READIES EFFORTS TO SWAY SENTIMENT ABROAD], by James Dao and Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 19 February 2002.</ref>

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−	~~Propaganda~~ unit set up within the US [[Department of Defense]] shortly after the September 11 attacks.<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06EFD71F3FF93AA25751C0A9649C8B63&scp=1&sq=%22office+of+strategic+influence%22&st=nyt A NATION CHALLENGED: HEARTS AND MINDS; PENTAGON READIES EFFORTS TO SWAY SENTIMENT ABROAD], by James Dao and Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 19 February 2002.</ref>	+	The [[Office of Strategic Influence]] is a propaganda unit set up within the US [[Department of Defense]] shortly after the September 11 attacks.<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06EFD71F3FF93AA25751C0A9649C8B63&scp=1&sq=%22office+of+strategic+influence%22&st=nyt A NATION CHALLENGED: HEARTS AND MINDS; PENTAGON READIES EFFORTS TO SWAY SENTIMENT ABROAD], by James Dao and Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 19 February 2002.</ref>

	The office reported to Under Secretary of Defence for Policy [[Douglas Feith]] and co-ordinated its work with the White House counter-terrorism office run by General [[Wayne A. Downing]], who had previously been in charge of over-seeing the military's covert operations. Among the units assigned to carry out the Office's operations was the Army's [[Psychological Operations Command]].<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06EFD71F3FF93AA25751C0A9649C8B63&scp=1&sq=%22office+of+strategic+influence%22&st=nyt A NATION CHALLENGED: HEARTS AND MINDS; PENTAGON READIES EFFORTS TO SWAY SENTIMENT ABROAD], by James Dao and Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 19 February 2002.</ref>		The office reported to Under Secretary of Defence for Policy [[Douglas Feith]] and co-ordinated its work with the White House counter-terrorism office run by General [[Wayne A. Downing]], who had previously been in charge of over-seeing the military's covert operations. Among the units assigned to carry out the Office's operations was the Army's [[Psychological Operations Command]].<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06EFD71F3FF93AA25751C0A9649C8B63&scp=1&sq=%22office+of+strategic+influence%22&st=nyt A NATION CHALLENGED: HEARTS AND MINDS; PENTAGON READIES EFFORTS TO SWAY SENTIMENT ABROAD], by James Dao and Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 19 February 2002.</ref>

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 ::That was intended to be done by that office is being done by that office, NOT by that office in other ways.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20021124061953/http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Nov2002/t11212002_t1118sd2.html News Transcript], Department of Defence, 18 November 2002, via the Internet Archive.</ref>
-James Bamford suggests that many of the units operations were shifted to the [[Information Operations Task Force]]. <ref>[http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/8798997/the_man_who_sold_the_war/print The Man Who Sold The War], by James Bamford, ''Rolling Stone'', November 17, 2005</ref
+James Bamford suggests that many of the unit's operations were shifted to the [[Information Operations Task Force]]. <ref>[http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/8798997/the_man_who_sold_the_war/print The Man Who Sold The War], by James Bamford, ''Rolling Stone'', November 17, 2005</ref>
 ==People==

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	The office reported to Under Secretary of Defence for Policy [[Douglas Feith]] and co-ordinated its work with the White House counter-terrorism office run by General [[Wayne A. Downing]], who had previously been in charge of over-seeing the military's covert operations. Among the units assigned to carry out the Office's operations was the Army's [[Psychological Operations Command]].<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06EFD71F3FF93AA25751C0A9649C8B63&scp=1&sq=%22office+of+strategic+influence%22&st=nyt A NATION CHALLENGED: HEARTS AND MINDS; PENTAGON READIES EFFORTS TO SWAY SENTIMENT ABROAD], by James Dao and Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 19 February 2002.</ref>		The office reported to Under Secretary of Defence for Policy [[Douglas Feith]] and co-ordinated its work with the White House counter-terrorism office run by General [[Wayne A. Downing]], who had previously been in charge of over-seeing the military's covert operations. Among the units assigned to carry out the Office's operations was the Army's [[Psychological Operations Command]].<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06EFD71F3FF93AA25751C0A9649C8B63&scp=1&sq=%22office+of+strategic+influence%22&st=nyt A NATION CHALLENGED: HEARTS AND MINDS; PENTAGON READIES EFFORTS TO SWAY SENTIMENT ABROAD], by James Dao and Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 19 February 2002.</ref>
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		+	==Creation==
		+	According to the Department of Defense, the Office of Strategic Influence was created in November 2001.<ref>[http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2002/02/dod022002b.html RUMSFELD ADDRESSES STRATEGIC INFLUENCE CRITICISM], US Department of Defense, 20 February 2002, archived at Federation of American Scientists.</ref>

	==Black propaganda role==		==Black propaganda role==