"On the eve of the Democratic National Convention [3] ... well-dressed politicians, corporate executives and their friends watched [fireworks] from a private party at a waterfront restaurant. ... Rick Rendon [was] the man in charge of the party," writes Pratap Chatterjee. Rick and brother John [4], senior staff for the secretive Rendon Group [5] PR firm, present "two entirely different faces to the world while working out of the same corporation: Spin doctoring for the Colombian military's counter insurgency [6]; encouraging citizens of Massachusetts to pay their taxes and recycle ... doing public relations for Jean Bertrand Aristide [7] when he was being re-installed by the Clinton [8] administration and for the citizen groups advocating the overthrow of Noreiga as the U.S. military invaded."