[lbo-talk] Re: RSF on Press Freedom

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 10/8/06, John Mage <jmage at panix.com> wrote:
> RSF is on the US government payroll, and is a thoroughly spookified setup.
>
> "Thierry Meyssan, president of the Paris daily, Red Voltaire, published
> an article in which he claimed Menard had negotiated a contract with
> Otto Reich and the Center for a Free Cuba (CFC) in 2001. Reich was a
> trustee of the center, which receives the bulk of its funding from the
> U.S. Agency for International Development. The contract, according to
> Meyssan, was signed in 2002 around the time Reich was appointed Special
> Envoy to the Western Hemisphere for the Secretary of State. The initial
> payment for RSF's services was approximately 24,970 euros in 2002
> ($25,000), which went up to 59,201 euros in 2003 ($50,000).
>
> Lucie Morillon, RSF's Washington representative, confirmed in an
> interview on April 29 that they are indeed receiving payments from the
> Center for a Free Cuba, and that the contract with Reich requires them
> to inform Europeans about the repression against journalists in Cuba and
> to support the families of journalists in prison. Morillon also said
> they received $50,000 from the CFC in 2004 and that this amount was
> consistent from year to year."
>
> <http://www.counterpunch.org/barahona05172005.html>
>
> john mage

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