6 Mar 2011

PR firm with Peter Mandelson link hired to whitewash Libyan regime


A PUBLIC relations firm set up by a close friend of former British business secretary Peter Mandelson was hired by Muammar Gaddafi to whitewash his tyrannical regime and win acceptance for Libya in the West.

Brown Lloyd James promoted the dictator as a "fascinating contemporary world figure" and his son Saif as a human rights champion. Lord Mandelson, who also knows Saif, has stayed at the Caribbean holiday home of Peter Brown, one of the company's founding partners.

Work carried out by the PR firm, which has offices in London, New York and Tripoli, included:

Reputational management for Saif, highlighting his role in freeing Western hostages and alleviating poverty in Africa;

Promoting a live video address by Colonel Gaddafi to the London School of Economics last December in which he hailed former British prime minister Tony Blair as a friend;

Advising the Libyan ruler before his inaugural address to the UN, 40 years after he came to power.


Mandelson has defended his links with Libya in the Financial Times




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3 comments:

Unknown said...

Great post! Do you have a link to this story?

Non-democratic countries are doing this more and more, and the public deserves to know.

Thanks!

Daryl

Derek Wall said...

apologies Daryl link is here http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/pr-firm-with-peter-mandelson-link-hired-to-whitewash-libyan-regime/story-e6frg6so-1226016730944

or you can click more here above!

thanks for pointing this out, I thought I had put it in.

Anonymous said...

like this you mean:

According to public records the VIO spent $379,000 on lobbying the US Congress in the years 2004 to 2007. In 2004 it also contracted public relations company Lumina Strategies to improve the image of Hugo Chávez and of the Venezuelan government in the United States, supporting and coordinating the media relations work of the VIO.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela_Information_Office

or is that 'different'?

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