VIDEO: Gadhafi paid millions to U.S. firms to polish his global image
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11-Apr-2011 (one comment)


CNN) -- Just a few years before becoming embroiled in fighting a rebellion, Moammar Gadhafi was spending millions of dollars a year to wage a PR campaign to burnish his global image as a statesman and a reformer, confidential documents show.

The mercurial leader hired The Monitor Group, a Boston-based consulting firm, to execute a public relations strategy that included paying think-tank analysts and former government officials to take a free trip to Libya for lectures, discussions and even personal meetings with Gadhafi starting in 2006.

According to a 2007 memo from Monitor to Gadhafi's intelligence chief, the campaign was to "enhance international understanding and appreciation of Libya... emphasize the emergence of the new Libya... [and] introduce Muammar Qadhafi as a thinker and intellectual."

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by Darius Kadivar on Mon Apr 11, 2011 12:26 AM PDT

Advertising companies Making Millions in uplifting the Libyan tyrant's image. Sending academics from Harvard and other respected universities to write positive reviews on the regime.


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