Office of Strategic Influence

CLARKE: Well, actually, the Office of Strategic Influence was a brief-lived idea and organization that started up in the first part of 2002 and ended within a couple of months.

CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2004 2004

ZAHN: In closing, last week on a number of occasions, you took the opportunity to make some very pointed criticisms of this so-called Office of Strategic Influence that was supposed to produce, among other things, disinformation in some countries on the war on terror.

CNN Transcript Feb 25, 2002 2002

The so-called Office of Strategic Influence was created in November of 2001 to assist in fashioning policy regarding the military aspects of information operations.

CNN Transcript Feb 21, 2002 2002

The Rendon Group also took over the responsibility to conduct "military deception" online from the Office of Strategic Influence.

Dr. Peter Rost: How a Public Relations Firm Helped Start the War 2008

The objective of the Office of Strategic Influence was to coerce foreign journalists and plant false information overseas.

Dr. Peter Rost: How a Public Relations Firm Helped Start the War 2008

A new department has been set up inside the Pentagon with the Orwellian title of the Office of Strategic Influence.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Hero: 2007

SecDef Rumsfeld drew a LOT of fire for his proposed Office of Strategic Influence, which was terminated if in name only because the American public was highly skeptical about the reach of such a program.

Firedoglake » More Questions for Gen. Hayden 2006

I take a lot of faith and a lot of confidence from the fact that the incidents we really saw, an aberration, the kinds of people and techniques considered by that Office of Strategic Influence over two years ago, aberration.

CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2004 2004

RODGERS: Given the fact that the Pentagon operates the Office of Strategic Influence and uses information as a legitimate tool of deception, shouldn't the public now be wary of anything coming out of that building after this incident?

CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2004 2004

You remember that Office of Strategic Influence that was established here in the Pentagon?

CNN Transcript Feb 25, 2002 2002