The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC), originally called APCO, was hatched in 1984 as a subsidiary of the Washington, D.C. law firm Arnold & Porter.
This firm is best known for its years of representing the giant tobacco conglomerate Philip Morris. APCO set up fake “grassroots” organizations around the country to do the bidding of Big Tobacco. APCO is now defunct and was replaced by TASSC. TASSC was established in to Europe using Dr. George Carlo.
All of a sudden, “normal, everyday, in-no-way-employed-by-Philip Morris Americans” were popping up everywhere. And it turned out they were outraged — outraged! — by exactly the things APCO’s clients hated (such as, the government telling tobacco companies what to do).
In particular, they were “furious” that regular people had the right to sue big corporations like Philip Morris.(For details, see the 2000 report “The CALA Files” (PDF) by my friends and colleagues Carl Deal and Joanne Doroshow.)
Right about now you may be wondering: how many Americans get pushed off a cliff by Big Tobacco every year? The answer is 443,000 Americans die every year due to smoking. That’s a big cliff.
With this success under their belts, APCO created “The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition.” TASSC, funded partly by Exxon, had a leading role in a planned campaign by the fossil fuel industry to create doubt about global warming.
The problem for Big Oil speaking out against global warming, according to the campaign’s own leaked documents, was that the public could see the “vested interest” that oil companies had in opposing environmental laws. APCO’s job was to help conceal those oil company interests.
And boy, have they ever succeeded.
source: http://dangerousintersection.org/
See http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=APCO_Worldwide
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