From: lpb@STRATUS.SWDC.STRATUS.COM (Len Bucuvalas)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Hill & Knowlton: Hired PR for Genocide White Wash
Date: 2 Oct 92 22:15:41 GMT

I'm not the mesage...just the messanger....

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    Hill and Knowlton is one of the world's biggest multinational p.r.
    firms, with offices in Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, Vancouver, Washington,
    and about 60 other locations around the world. It is owned by a massive
    British-based parent company, WPP, which also owns Decima Research, 
    pollsters for the Tories in the 1988 election, and the lobbying firm 
    Public Affairs International, along with two major ad agencies. . . .
    Hill and Knowlton lobbies, in Washington, for nuclear manufacturer
    General Electric. . . .  Hill and Knowlton has many close links with 
    the political elite. Craig Fuller, who was chief executive at H&K until 
    very recently, was George Bush's Chief of Staff when Bush was 
    vice-president.

  Euphemistic balderdash like "public relations firms" belie the lethal nature
  of these tightly organized and well-versed-in-mind-bending-techniques orgs
  that play the emotions of whole societies of people the way Rubenstein plays
  Moonlight Sonata on a Steinway concert grand in Carnegie Hall.  such "p.r."
  corpsesification entities are the very flowering in civilian "camouflage" of
  those military veterans so well-versed in psychological warfare operations,
  or, to the initiated, psywar ops.  after all, if you can make the majority
  of people in a society or culture believe whatever-it-is you want them to--
  parTICulary when promulgation of such belief will enable you to carry out 
  some kind of agenda that enhances yer own wealth, prestige, or influence, 
  then what do you need such crude forms of control like goose-stepping,
  jackbooted stormtroopers for?
							    -- ratitor

from PeaceNet via ACTIV-L:

Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 20:25:35 CDT
From: "(Rich Winkel)" <rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu>
Subject:      PAX: HILL AND KNOWLTON -- SELLING DEATH
To: Multiple recipients of ACTIV-L <ACTIV-L%MIZZOU1.BITNET@pucc.Princeton.EDU>

/** gen.newsletter: 147.0 **/
** Topic: The ACTivist 8#10, October 1992 **
** Written  9:32 pm  Sep 24, 1992 by web:act in cdp:gen.newsletter **

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                     HILL AND KNOWLTON -- SELLING DEATH

                             By Aaron Doyle
                              The ACTivist


    ACT for Disarmament got a strange phone call earlier this year -- one
    we eventually discovered was from Hill and Knowlton, the controversial
    public relations firm who were instrumental in swinging public opinion
    in favour of the Gulf War.
    
    As the New York Times reported, Hill and Knowlton, working for the
    government of Kuwait, spread the false story that Iraqi troops had
    snatched hundreds of Kuwaiti babies from their incubators and left them
    to die. The bogus story was part of a massive Hill and Knowlton p.r.
    campaign that helped lead the the United Nations giving the green
    light for the Gulf War.
    
    On March 9, a woman phoned the ACT Toronto office and, without
    identifying herself, asked for copies of recent press releases from the 
    East Timor Alert Network. When questioned by ACT's Maggie Helwig, the 
    caller said she was "just doing some research."
    
    Finally, after being asked a number of times about her identity, the
    caller admitted that she worked for Hill and Knowlton's Ottawa office,
    though she would only give her first name.
    
    Why the call? It seems that Hill and Knowlton are also hired 'p.r.
    guns' for the government of Indonesia, which has killed at least
    200,000 Timorese people since invading East Timor in 1975.
    
    The call to ACT came shortly after Indonesian foreign minister Ali
    Alatas visited Canada in February. Alatas was on a world tour in an
    attempt to counter bad publicity over last November's massacre of
    unarmed Timorese protestors by Indonesian government troops at the 
    Santa Cruz cemetery.
    
    However, Brian Hemming, general manager of the firm's Toronto office, 
    told The ACTivist that "Hill and Knowlton has worked for the Indonesian 
    economic ministry helping to promote investment opportunities. We've 
    had nothing to do with the human rights issue." No one from the Ottawa 
    office was available for comment.
    
    Hill and Knowlton is one of the world's biggest multinational p.r.
    firms, with offices in Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, Vancouver, Washington,
    and about 60 other locations around the world. It is owned by a massive
    British-based parent company, WPP, which also owns Decima Research, 
    pollsters for the Tories in the 1988 election, and the lobbying firm 
    Public Affairs International, along with two major ad agencies.
    
    After the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, Hill and Knowlton was hired
    by the Kuwaiti government, through the funnel group Citizens for a Free 
    Kuwait, for more than $10 million, to spread tales of Iraqi atrocities 
    and gather public support for a military intervention.
    
    Hemming denied that the dead-babies story was a deliberate hoax, even 
    though the key source was the 15-year-old daughter of the Kuwaiti 
    ambassador to the United States. "To the best of our abilities we tried 
    to confirm it, and our people believed it to be true."
    
    Hill and Knowlton has a lengthy list of other dubious clients.
    
    The firm has done public relations for the government of Turkey,
    another regime with a brutal record of human rights violations,
    including torture and killing of its own citizens and genocidal
    campaigns against the Kurdish minority.
    
    Hill and Knowlton lobbies, in Washington, for nuclear manufacturer
    General Electric (for more on the GE Boycott, see story, this page).
    
    Catholic bishops in the U.S. have hired Hill and Knowlton for
    anti-abortion campaigning.
    
    Other Hill and Knowlton clients have included the forces opposed to
    Ontario's NDP provincial government, such as "Project Economic Growth", 
    a group opposing the reform of labour laws. However, Hemming said that 
    Hill and Knowlton's involvement with Project Economic Growth had run 
    its course.
    
    Hill and Knowlton bailed out on another infamous client, the Church of 
    Scientology, shortly after a Time magazine article revealed their
    connection and called the church "a ruthless global scam." Hemming
    admits that H&K's involvement with Scientology was "a mistake."
    
    Hill and Knowlton has many close links with the political elite. Craig
    Fuller, who was chief executive at H&K until very recently, was George 
    Bush's Chief of Staff when Bush was vice-president.
    
    In Canada, Paul Curley, former vice chairman of H&K, is also former
    national director of the Progressive Conservative party. Rick Anderson, 
    general manager of H&K's Ottawa office, discussed his allegiance to the 
    Reform Party in a recent Financial Post article.
    
    Despite this grim record, Hemmings insists "We would not work for any 
    client who is doing anything illegal, or which is not in the public
    interest."
    
    ** End of text from cdp:gen.newsletter **
    
    
--
   Even if you made an agreement to abolish all nuclear weapons, but you left 
 established power structure in the U.S. and the USSR, they'd go on to research
 mind control or some chemical or biological thing.  My view is, there exists a
 group of people in the world that have a disease.  I call it the "power 
 disease."  They want to rule and control other people.  They are a more 
 important plague than cancer, pneumonia, bubonic plague, tuberculosis, and 
 heart disease put together.  They can only think how to obliterate, control, 
 and use each other.  They use people as nothing more than instruments to cast
 aside when they don't need them any more.
        --Dr. John W. Gofman, from "Nuclear Witnesses, Insiders Speak Out" 1982


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