A joint report by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the Sunday Times has revealed that Lord Tim Bell’s PR firm Bell Pottinger was hired by the US military to run a “covert” propoganda operation in Iraq.
At the peak of the Iraq war, the London based consultancy was hired by the US department of defense to orchestrate a mammoth $540m campaign, in what is believed to be one of the most-costly PR contracts in history.
Operating under the agency’s now dissolved ‘conflict resolution’ arm between 2007 and 2011, the bulk of the operation included “scripting soap operas, providing footage Read full story ›
Source: The Drum
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