PENTAGON RENOUNCES DISINFORMATION
The Defense Department adamantly rejected media reports that its new
Office of Strategic Influence would consider planting false news stories
in foreign media outlets.
"The Department of Defense does not now and has no plans to conduct any
disinformation campaigns or to promulgate false or inaccurate or
misleading information to domestic or foreign audiences," said Defense
Secretary Rumsfeld at a February 21 press briefing. "Any suggestion to
the contrary would not be correct."
"Under no circumstance will that Office [of Strategic Influence] or its
contractors, for that matter, knowingly or deliberately disseminate
false information to the American or to foreign publics," Rumsfeld said.
See:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2002/02/dod022102.html
See also "New Defense Office Won't Mislead, Officials Say" by Vernon
Loeb and Dana Milbank in the February 21 Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42427-2002Feb20.html
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