[CPEO-MEF] The Navy and the Vieques vote

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Firm Hired by Navy to Sway Vieques Vote

By JOHN J. LUMPKIN
The Associated Press/Washington Post
July 22, 2005

WASHINGTON -- The Navy hired a communications firm for $1.6 million in 
2001 in an apparent attempt to influence the outcome of a vote on 
whether part of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques would continue to 
serve as a bombing range, according to documents obtained by a watchdog 
group.

Judicial Watch obtained the material under the Freedom of Information 
Act and provided them to The Associated Press.

According to the documents, the Navy's Fleet and Industrial Supply 
Center in Norfolk, Va., initially contracted with the Rendon Group of 
Washington for advice on "dissemination of accurate information" 
regarding the referendum of Vieques residents on whether to keep part of 
the island as a training range.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/22/AR2005072201571.html?sub=AR

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