Posted on 08/22/2025 11:59:18 AM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
Myanmar’s rebranded State Security and Peace Commission (SSPC) has announced elections for December 28, in a flurry of domestic dictatorial reformation. But they also want to deceive world opinion too, with the early-August announcement of a US$3 million contract with Washington DC-based public relations firm DCI Group.
The filing under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) claims the contract is to “provide public affairs services to Client (SSPC) with respect to rebuilding relations between the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and the United States, with a focus on trade, natural resources, and humanitarian relief.”
The contract will run through the Ministry of Information, whose current minister is former General Maung Maung Ohn, who once commanded the military’s Directorate of Public Relations and Psychological Warfare. This evinced much indignation from a range of anti-military revolutionary groups. But this wasn’t the first time military regimes from Myanmar have appealed to US PR firms.
The notorious Washington PR spin doctor Edward von Kloberg, who lobbied for Idi Amin and Saddam Hussein, briefly worked for the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) after the 1988 coup. Jefferson Waterman International (JWI) was the next DC PR firm to work with a military regime, although its FARA document from March 1997 claims the main contact was a Myanmar company called Myanmar Resources Development Ltd, a front for the SLORC.
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Burmese Days?
Democrats always make money by causing and subsidizing the problem and then prolonging to infinity any claimed attempt to address it.
Democrats are inherently evil in their approach to life.
USAID money baby!
They never encountered one that they didn’t like.
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