Fascinating. From Fenton Communications and moveon.org to CIP and anti-Bush propaganda to Dana Priest whose husband is a leading guru and activist for the Bush-hating left..... no wonder Mary McCarthy felt 'safe' leaking to Dana Priest.
Can we talk about a "vast left-wing conspiracy" yet? :^)
"The life and odyssey of fiftysomething PR guru David Fenton has been one radical adventure after another. In the sixties he dropped out of high school and got a job as a photographer for the Liberation News Service, which favored the Viet Cong in the war against America, becoming a confidant of hippie leader Abbie Hoffman.
In the seventies he would serve as public-relations director of Rolling Stone magazine and organize antinuclear concerts with leftie entertainers such as Jackson Browne.
During the eighties he grew more corporate and at the same time more radical, building offices for Fenton Communications in New York City and Washington while fattening his payroll by performing services for various communist state and "liberation" groups, including the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, the dictatorship of Grenada's Maurice Bishop that President Ronald Reagan sent troops to overthrow in 1983, the El Salvadoran terrorist Farabundo Marti National Liberation group and the conspiratorial Christic Institute, which spread vicious, baseless smears about retired U.S. military heroes.