APCO Worldwide organization
also: APCO, A-P-C-O
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Marjorie Kraus founded
APCO Worldwide host_asserted
“And it was founded by Marjorie, M-A-R-G-E-R-Y Kraus, K-R-A-U-S. And she remains the executive chairman of the organization. So it has a whole laundry list of some very interesting people to include CIA people that are among their population…”
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APCO Worldwide front_for
Arnold & Porter host_asserted
“both current and past. And it was a wholly owned subsidiary of a law firm called Arnold and Porter, one of Washington's largest law firms. And it was, that's where Arnold and Porter is where AP Co. stands. That's where it came from. So it,…”
▶ More on the Mumbai terror event and Tata @ 7:21
APCO Worldwide member_of
WPP plc host_asserted
“is also part of a bigger conglomerate called GREY, G-R-E-Y, Global Group. And there's all kinds of mixing between, but GREY is found in North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asian Pacific, and Latin America. So all of the hotbeds for …”
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Mentions (18)
▶ 5:21
He becomes ambassador to India in 09. So we're going to, oh, and the very last thing that I found really interesting is that he had spent a lot of time on this organization called APCO. Hold on a second. Let me bring it up. Yeah, APCO, A-P-…
▶ 5:55
and basically it was named after and basically ran by a law firm, but it was a PR entity. So we have a Sullivan Cromwell type law firm and a PR like Hill and Knowlton all in one with this one. It's APCO Worldwide.…
▶ 6:24
Wikipedia page says it was an independent global public affairs, PR, and strategic communication firm. So it's in 35 different locations all over the world. It has hundreds of people. It's the fifth largest independently owned PR firm. And …
▶ 6:52
And it was founded by Marjorie, M-A-R-G-E-R-Y Kraus, K-R-A-U-S. And she remains the executive chairman of the organization. So it has a whole laundry list of some very interesting people to include CIA people that are among their population…
▶ 7:21
both current and past. And it was a wholly owned subsidiary of a law firm called Arnold and Porter, one of Washington's largest law firms. And it was, that's where Arnold and Porter is where AP Co. stands. That's where it came from. So it,…
▶ 7:52
is also part of a bigger conglomerate called GREY, G-R-E-Y, Global Group. And there's all kinds of mixing between, but GREY is found in North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asian Pacific, and Latin America. So all of the hotbeds for …
▶ 8:24
It also has a very large presence in Chicago, weirdly enough, and Dubai. So here's some of their notable work. APCO handled the crisis for Merck, and it was part of Kazakhstan's president's team to help him through a four-year-long dispute.…
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with his former son-in-law. WorldCom hired them when they got in trouble for not reporting their financial statements correctly. They've done quite a bit of work in India, and it says that they were hired by GUJARAT, Global Investment Summi…
▶ 9:25
Prime Minister Modi as part of a rebranding of a pro-Indian initiative. So, very interesting. What I found extremely interesting is that they are also involved in the narrative push to make global warming a good thing. They were also part o…
▶ 9:57
hired by Philip Morris back in 1992 when their secondhand smoke was deemed a carcinogen. And they basically were paying studies to say otherwise. So they definitely have some very interesting business practices. In 2010, the Malaysian,…
▶ 10:28
Malaysian opposition leader alleged that Malaysian parliament called One Malaysia concept had mirrored a concept that APCO had helped with called One Israel. And that they basically were like a parallel type system. And then weirdly enough,…
▶ 10:59
And they were also involved in a 2010 Hewlett Packard incident where APCO was involved in the recommendation to fire Mark Hurd, H-U-R-D, their CEO. And they basically wrote a mock news story that implicated Hurd in some nefarious stuff.…
▶ 11:28
HP would negatively be affected by bad press of its CEO being involved in an inappropriate relationship with Jody Fisher. So they basically got him fired over that. They were also involved in a targeted initiative where UK had financial int…
▶ 12:27
because they have a U.S. subsidiary too and are involved in sourcing a whole lot of military equipment. This seems very odd that we're relying on a foreign government to source, but whatever. So I just wanted to put all of that in perspecti…
▶ 12:56
And we already talked about the LBIT system and the fact that they're intimately involved in the U.S. So we're going to go on. There was an article, which I can't get access to from the archives because it's like frozen up, that talks about…
▶ 13:28
program in the bigger PR program. All right. So let's go back to these people that are involved in this. So here, we're going to start a story about the, there's a guy by the name of Vladimir G-U-S-I-N-S-K-Y.…
▶ 14:58
And so this Juwinski guy is part of that whole thing. And I found it very interesting that he partnered with APCO, which has ties to CIA, and owned by that law firm, Arnold and Porter. And the name of the joint organization that they set up…
▶ 17:30
had been arrested one, two, three, four, five, six, seven times on multiple significant felony counts. And he had gone in and out of India, in and out of Pakistan, all over. And generally speaking, when we find those, they do so under the a…