The Nando Times: Pentagon says new office won’t deliberately spread lies
WASHINGTON (February 20, 2002 3:55 p.m. EST) – Pentagon officials on Wednesday denied planning to use a new Office of Strategic Influence to plant erroneous information in the news media to promote U.S. war goals.
“The Pentagon does not issue disinformation to the foreign press or any press,” Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said.
Too bad – I was looking forward to some standard-issue, government-produced fiction; the civilian stuff’s getting too predictable. But it probably would have read like government cheese tastes.