Who Are Castro's Lobbyists?

According to The Boston Globe:



A Cambridge consulting firm's [The Monitor Group] controversial bid to bolster the image of Moammar Ghadafi and Libya should have been registered with the US government as a lobbying effort, an internal company investigation found [...]

Libya had hired the company, which was cofounded by Harvard professors, in 2006 to produce a strategy for economic reform. Such consulting work does not need to be registered with the federal government.

But at the same time, Libya gave the company $250,000 per month to launch a visitors program aimed at bringing influential "thought leaders" to Tripoli [...]

Internal company memos leaked by a Libyan opposition group in 2009 suggest those visits were mainly aimed at improving Libya's image in the West.

Sound familiar?

Please note that The Monitor Group was only discovered to be working for the Ghadafi regime thanks to documents leaked by Libyan rebels earlier this year.

Otherwise, their work-product would have continued to be (falsely) distributed as intellectual observations by non-partisan academics and "experts."

The Hill elaborates:

As part of its PR campaign, Monitor [Group] also worked to "provide operational support for publication of positive articles on Libya" in several media outlets, such as The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The New York Times.

Sound familiar also?

It makes you wonder about many of the organizations, consultants and "think-tanks" that constantly advocate for unconditionally normalizing relations with the Castro regime and that seek to bolster its image in the U.S.

Despite their clear legislative agenda, not one of them is legally registered to lobby.

As in the case of Libya -- time will surely tell.