John Rendon
John Walter Rendon Jr. is 'a leader in the strategic field known as "perception management," manipulating information -- and, by extension, the news media -- to achieve the desired result.' He is the former executive director of the Democratic National Committee. In September 2001, the Pentagon had secretly awarded Rendon a $16 million contract to target Iraq and other adversaries with propaganda. According to James Bamford:
- His firm, the Rendon Group, has made millions off government contracts since 1991, when it was hired by the CIA to help "create the conditions for the removal of Hussein from power." Working under this extraordinary transfer of secret authority, Rendon assembled a group of anti-Saddam militants, personally gave them their name -- the Iraqi National Congress -- and served as their media guru and "senior adviser" as they set out to engineer an uprising against Saddam...
- According to federal records, Rendon charges the CIA and the Pentagon $311.26 an hour for his services.
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- James Bamford, The Man Who Sold The War, Rolling Stone, November 17, 2005
