On 6 Sep 2002 at 20:53, Archibald Scatflinger wrote:
>
> Meltdown at the Pentagon: OSI Leaked from Within
> On February 19, 2002, news reports began running hot and fast that the
> Pentagon had created formally an agency through which to "influence
> opinion" abroad; the Office of Strategic Influence (OSI), as it was to
> be called, would be run by retired Brigadier General Simon "Pete"
> Worden--an eccentric character, with heavy ties to former Reagan
> Cabinet member Frank Carlucci's Carlyle Group, given to answering his
> staff in fluent Russian and a master of practical jokes (hence, some
> say, OSI's acronymic similarity to the fictional "Office of Special
> Intelligence" in the 70's TV series, The Six Million-Dollar Man).
> Associate Press reporter
> http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=13
>
Old news, and when it came to light, the uproar caused it to be closed
before it even got going good.
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