Hill &amp; Knowlton was hired in 1990 by Citizens for a Free Kuwait, a group predominantly funded by the Government of Kuwait, to assist its campaign for U.S. intervention in response to the invasion and annexation of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist regime. The firm arranged for a Kuwaiti girl, Nayirah, to testify in October 1990 to the Human Rights Caucus of the United States Congress about events she had allegedly witnessed. She reported seeing Iraqi soldiers kill babies in a Kuwaiti hospital, but it was then learned that she was the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the United States and her story was false. Hill &amp; Knowlton was accused of spreading false information to increase support for the Gulf War, which the company denied. The company received around $10 million for their work for Citizens for a Free Kuwait.