The Cuba Lobby [1]
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton [2] on
"The Citizens for Liberty in Cuba is using Washington, D.C.-based Griesinger Assocs. to 'promote policies to aid in bringing democracy' to the island," reports O'Dwyer's PR Online. The CLC's former director is Otto Reich [3], a leading figure in the Iran/Contra scandal whose Office of Public Diplomacy [4] ran the Reagan administration's covert disinformation campaign [5] related to the war in Central America in the 1980s. Reich was recently sworn in as the Bush administration's assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs. According to Washington Representatives 2001 [6], Reich is president of the Washington-based "strategic planning firm" RMA International, Inc. Working for RMA, Reich lobbied for Bacardi-Martini, Lockheed Martin, Marriott, Mobil Latin America & Caribbean, and Telegate. BATMark, British American Tobacco China, and Kellogg Brown and Root are also listed as RMA clients.