Reply #61: PR firm took $1.2M from Gadhafi’s Libya [View All]

By Kevin Bogardus - 07/18/11 04:51 PM ET


An international public relations firm worked to boost the regime of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi while employed by an oil executive with business interests in the country, new documents show.


Brown Lloyd James (BLJ) filed a dozen and half contracts and semi-annual reports with the Justice Department last week to document their work for a slew of foreign clients — such as the governments of Qatar and Morocco — that were previously unreported.

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“At the direction of our client, Hassan Tatanki, we assisted the Libyan government in its efforts to reach out to the international political community through the United Nations and to the U.S. political and university community,” the firm says in records filed with Justice. “The scope of our work included assisting Mr. Tatanaki help the Libyan government deepen its ties to the U.S. and international political communities by assisting President Gadhafi with certain public events, and by promoting student exchange programs and university research programs with Libya.”

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Brown Lloyd James set up interviews between reporters and Gadhafi and helped distribute and edit op-eds written by the Libyan dictator. Executives at the firm also provided strategic advice to senior Libyan government officials and organized meetings with civic and non-governmental groups, according to Justice records.

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