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*[[Otto Reich]] was head of the now-defunct [[Office for Public Diplomacy]] (OPD), which the House Committee on Foreign Affairs censured for "prohibited, covert propaganda activities" (Washington Post, 10/11/87). [http://www.fair.org/extra/0109/iran-contra.html]
== Instances of covert propaganda ==
*[[Otto Reich]] was head of the now-defunct [[Office for Public Diplomacy]] (OPD), which the House Committee on Foreign Affairs censured for "prohibited, covert propaganda activities" (Washington Post, 10/11/87). [http://www.fair.org/extra/0109/iran-contra.html]
*[[Medicare Prescription Drug Bill Vote Scandal, 2003]]
*In January 2004 the [[Government Accountability Office|GAO]] scolded the Bush administration a second time for distributing [[VNR]]s, this time produced by the [[Office of National Drug Control Policy]] concerning the dangers of marijuana. They featured former reporter [[Mike Morris]], and were aired, at least in part, on 300 news shows. The GAO called it "illegal government propaganda". [http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/11/1446234]
*[[Armstrong Williams]] and [[Ketchum]]
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