Is the Pentagon Subcontracting out its shuttered Office of Strategic Influence"?

"Early last year Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld disbanded the Pentagon's Office of Strategic Influence after it became known that the office was considering plans to provide false news items to unwitting foreign journalists to influence policymakers and public sentiment abroad. But a couple of months ago, the Pentagon quietly awarded a $300,000 contract to SAIC, a major defense consultant, to study how the Defense Department could design an 'effective strategic influence campaign to combat global terror, according to an internal Pentagon document. Sound familiar?"

--asks the New York Times's Eric Schmitt, here (reg. req).

Posted by Laura at December 4, 2003 11:05 PM