I love the contrast between the CNN and BBC stories about it:
New Pentagon office to spearhead information warThe Pentagon has established a new Office of Strategic Influence to market America's war on terrorism outside the United States, a Defense Department official said Tuesday.
The office will set up policies for information operations and warfare that will then be carried out by military specialists to "influence the hearts and minds of the opposition," the official said, adding that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has yet to approve any plans for new information operations.
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Although "information deception" -- deliberately spreading false or misleading information -- is a part of information warfare policy and doctrine, the Pentagon has no specific plans to undertake deceptive operations using the international news media, the official said.
He noted that deliberate misinformation could undermine U.S. credibility abroad. However, any deception effort is likely to be covert, he said.
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/02/19/gen.strategic.influence/ Pentagon plans propaganda warThe Pentagon is toying with the idea of black propaganda.
As part of George Bush's war on terrorism, the military is thinking of planting propaganda and misleading stories in the international media.
A new department has been set up inside the Pentagon with the Orwellian title of the Office of Strategic Influence.
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The Pentagon is forbidden from spreading black propaganda in the American media, but there is nothing to stop an American newspaper picking up a story carried abroad.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1830500.stm On edit: reading the article more fully, I see that they dumped that name in favour of "Office of Global Communications".