Strategic Communication Laboratories

Strategic Communication Laboratories

Quoting Abraham Lincoln, the opening page of SCL's website clearly states its objective: "Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed. He who molds public opinion is greater than he who enacts laws." ^[1]

The company pledges strict confidentiality, saying that "absolutely no information concerning any of our past projects will be made available under any circumstances".^[2] However, Oakes has admitted working in South Africa, but refused to talk about any other cliets.

Board of Directors

• The Rt Hon Sir Geoffrey Pattie Chairman
• Nigel Oakes Chief Executive Officer
• Alex Oakes Director
• Alexander Nix Director
• Roger Gabb Director
• Julian Wheatland Director
• Rear Admiral John G Tolhurst CB FRAeS Advisory Board
• The Rt. Hon. Sir James Mitchell Advisory Board
• John Bottomley FCIS Company Secretary
• Ian Tunnicliffe Director of Information Operations
• Dr Andrew Stewart Advisory Board
• Lord Birdwood Advisory Board
• Lord Ivar MountbattenAdvisory Board
• Professor Phil Taylor BA PhD – Behavioural Dynamics Institute Advisory Board
• Gavin McNicoll Advisory Board

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Address

33 St James's Square London SW1Y 4JS United Kingdom

Tel : 020 7930 3500 Fax : 0870 428 0844 Email : opcentre@scl.cc ^[4]

Notes on the building

According to their website, the current address Strategic Communications Laboratories claims to be based out of (as seen above) houses 18 separate companies. Some of these include Anglo & International Corporate Finance Ltd, Kobe Steel Europe Ltd, and Scotland & Associates to name a few, however SCL is not listed as one. ^[5]

The Website

http://www.whois.net describes Strategic Communication Laboratories website as being registered as follows:

Domain Name: SCL.CC

Registrar: REGISTER.COM, INC.

Whois Server: whois.register.com

Referral URL: http://www.register.com

Name Server: DNS19.REGISTER.COM

Name Server: DNS20.REGISTER.COM

Status: CLIENT-XFER-PROHIBITED Updated Date: 10-aug-2006

Creation Date: 16-sep-2004

Expiration Date: 16-sep-2015 ^[6]

Formed in 1993 SCL claims that 'The demand for the agency grew out of the failure and frustration many clients experienced when trying to apply traditional marketing techniques to non-commercial issues, such as resolution of wars and civil strife, strike aversion, international crises and riot control.' ^[7]

Dr Andrew Stewart Advisory Board

Partners

Strategic Communication Laboratories have two partners Advanced Strategic Initiatives, Inc. and VT.

notes

1. ^http://www.scl.cc/contactscl.php
2. ^http://www.scl.cc/home.php
3. ^http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/addressfinder;jsessionid=MNZPRLEAXSAPSFB2IGFENZQUHRAYWQ2K?catId=400145&pageId=pcaf_a_ma_results&_requestid=106779&gear=postcode
4. ^ www.whois.net, accessed 14/02/07
5. ^http://www.scl.cc/article.php?id=2
6. ^http://www.scl.cc/staff.php
7. ^Sunday Times (06/08/2000) http://www.lexisnexis.com/uk/business/results/docview/docview.do?risb=21_T1139394225&format=GNBFI&sort=BOOLEAN&startDocNo=1&resultsUrlKey=29_T1139394227&cisb=22_T1139394226&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&csi=10939&docNo=12