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On the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Influence

The OSI's intent to disinform Received responses that were less than warm. The Pentagon now says it doesn't need An office just to lie and to mislead. There is, though, one false fact they're not eschewing: The notion that the brass know what they're doing.

Calvin Trillin

February 28, 2002

The OSI’s intent to disinform Received responses that were less than warm. The Pentagon now says it doesn’t need An office just to lie and to mislead. There is, though, one false fact they’re not eschewing: The notion that the brass know what they’re doing.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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