Hollinger International Inc. [3], a newspaper publisher caught up in a widening financial scandal, is looking into an investment the company made to a venture capital fund with links to neoconservative defense adviser Richard Perle [4] and Henry Kissinger [5], both directors of the company. The investigation is part of a wider probe at the company which has already resulted in the resignation of several senior executives, including Canadian-born press baron Conrad Black [6] as Hollinger International's CEO. However, Black remains chairman and controlling shareholder of the Chicago-based company, which publishes the Chicago Sun-Times, The Daily Telegraph in London and The Jerusalem Post. Hollinger International is also reviewing its annual contribution of some $200,000 to The National Interest, a conservative quarterly magazine that also has links to Perle and Kissinger. According to PR Week [7], Hollinger has hired Bell Pottinger Communications in the UK and Kekst and Company in New York to handle the public relations fallout from the scandal.