Editing Rendon Group (section)

===OSI===
The [[Office of Strategic Influence]], or OSI, was a department created by the United States Department of Defense on October 30, 2001.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://articles.cnn.com/2002-02-19/us/gen.strategic.influence_1_commando-solo-broadcasts-office-of-strategic-influence?_s=PM:US |title=New Pentagon office to spearhead information war - CNN |accessdate=2012-05-15 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415095238/http://articles.cnn.com/2002-02-19/us/gen.strategic.influence_1_commando-solo-broadcasts-office-of-strategic-influence?_s=PM:US |archivedate=2012-04-15 }}</ref>
According to a DOD IG Report, The Rendon Group never had any connection to OSI aside from a 60-day deployment.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dodig.mil/IGInformation/IGInformationReleases/Report%20No%20%2007-INTEL-06%20-%20The%20Rendon%20Group.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-03-19 |archive-date=2015-09-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923223646/http://www.dodig.mil/IGInformation/IGInformationReleases/Report%20No%20%2007-INTEL-06%20-%20The%20Rendon%20Group.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>  In February 2002, OSI provided a government contracting technical representative to assist in managing a work order given to The Rendon Group that was funded by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence for the Joint Information Operation Task Force. This Task Order funded a 60-day deployment of two media advisors to Indonesia to support the embassy's public diplomacy and opinion research. Later, DOD  publicly disbanded the OSI following a backlash when Pentagon officials said the new office would engage in "black" disinformation campaigns, of which The Rendon Group was not a part.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/international/19PENT.html?pagewanted=print |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |first1=James |last1=Dao |first2=Eric |last2=Schmitt |accessdate=May 22, 2010 |title=A NATION CHALLENGED: HEARTS AND MINDS; PENTAGON READIES EFFORTS TO SWAY SENTIMENT ABROAD |date=February 19, 2002 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110513235805/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/international/19PENT.html?pagewanted=print |archivedate=May 13, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/international/21INFO.html?pagewanted=print |title=New Agency Will Not Lie, Top Pentagon Officials Say| newspaper=The New York Times | first=James | last=Dao|date=21 February 2002 }}</ref>