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[[Mongoven, Biscoe & Duchin]] (MBD) was a public relations firm based in Washington D.C. that specialized in gathering intelligence on activist organizations for their scores of business clients, and developing strategies and tactics to protect their clients from activists. It was founded by [[Jack Mongoven]] (an ex-journalist turned GOP operative), [[Alvin Biscoe]], and [[Ron Duchin]], who were formerly principal executives of [[Pagan International]]. Pagan International, in turn, was founded by Mongoven with [[Rafael Pagan]] after the pair made their names by thwarting the late-1970s and 1980s boycott of [[Nestlé]] for its active promotion of infant formula in developing countries. They had been hired by Nestlé to devise and implement a "divide and conquer" strategy to bring down the boycott.<ref name="TC">Stacy M. Carter, [http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/data/11/1/DC2/1 Mongoven, Biscoe & Duchin: destroying tobacco control activism from the inside], ''Tobacco Control'', 2002;11 Issue 2.</ref>
In 2003, MBD was merged into the Washington, DC, intelligence firm Stratfor. [[Bart Mongoven]], Jack's son, is a Vice President of Stratfor.<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/24/AR2011012405821.html Ronald A. Duchin, Army colonel], obituary,''Washington Post'', January 24, 2011.</ref>
==Hacked by Anonymous in 2011==
