Tobacco Industry
Shysters, Spin Doctors, Lawyer-lobbyists & Stink-tankers

Adlkofer
Franz		Controller of research at the German Verband [the German Tobacco Institute/TIRC] He was a disinformation expert, but he maintained closer relationships with German health authorities than the US companies liked.
Auchter
Thorn		Florida Republican; Reagan's head of OSHA; lobbyist partner of Jim Tozzi and George Carlo in MBS, HES, Federal Focus, IRP, and other fake policy institutes.
Balter
Nancy		 at Georgetown University, Washington DC. She worked closely with an associate Sorrel Schwartz (Professor of Pharmacology) in running the US Whitecoats organisation IAPAG, which recruited and supplied scientific witnesses, letter-writers, etc. for the tobacco industry.
Bennett
James		George Mason University Professor of Economics, who worked on the side for the tobacco industry through the Capital Research Center.
Bible
Geoff		President, CEO and spin-chief at PM: He was No.3 in the troika which ran the company in the 1990s (under Hamish Maxwell, then Bill Murray). Bible was the top strategist for the tobacco industry for many years, and had a close personal friendship with Rupert Murdoch and Bill Murray. He also mentored Andrew Whist and Bryan Simpson, and designed the Boca Raton Action Plan. He now works for Murdoch's News Ltd.
Borelli
Tom		Biochemist; Head of Science & Technology Affairs (science disinformation) at PM. He was central to most of the domestic Philip Morris scams. He later joined Steve Milloy in a fund-management venture.
Bring
Murray		An Arnold & Porter legal partner who advised Philip Morris at the Boardroom level, He became a member of the Board, then joined the company and became VP of the company's External Affairs.
Carlo
George		Science-for-sale entrepreneur who worked for Dow-Chemicals, Philip Morris, and a range of chemical/pharmaceutical companies, before taking on the task of deflecting criticism about the lack of mobile-phone health research for the CTIA. Later became a vigorous cellphone critic when he discovered that sham 'protection devices' generated even more revenues. He ran WTR and the Health & Environmental Services Group.
Coors
Joseph		The head of the family which owns Coors Breweries. His [also right-wing] brother complained that Joseph "was to the right of Genghis Khan", which says something. Joseph Coors joined forces with Richard Mellon Scaife in funding socially disruptive 'anti-liberal' organisations. He was the power behind Colorado University, the Cato Institute, Heritage Foundation and many others organisations. Other members of the Coors family were also involved in far-right-wing Republican politics, think-tanks, etc.
Cullman
Hugh		Nephew of Joseph Cullman III who was CEO and Chairman of the Philip Morris Group in the 1970s. Hugh had an oversight role of the PM International operations, but he was pushed out of the top job by the son of the British tobacco executive, Hamish Maxwell.
Cullman
Joseph III		The legendary Chairman and CEO of Phillip Morris.He was the head of the Cullman family which controlled Philip Morris until the 1980s and turned it into the leading cigarette company both in the US and worldwide. He was Jewish and a marketing specialist, which broke with the old-South traditions of the industry.
He became the driving force behind inter-company co-operative agreements to work against anti-smoking forces, and he personally planned and controlled the deliberate scientific misinformation project to counter the Auerbach beagle study.
DuPuis
Bob		 Head of PM's R&D in Richmond who, back in 1954, attacked VP George Weissman for saying there was nothing harmful in tobacco.
Francis
Phil		Australian PR operator brought to New York by Andrew Whist to help run disinformation campaigns.
Fuller
Craig		Top Reagan Republican aide and campaign manager bought in to Philip Morris (by way of PR firm Buston-Marsteller) to run the domestic political operations. A Republican revolving door operator. Was Senior VP for PM's Corporate Affairs.
Gaisch
Helmut		 Head of the FTR division of PM International, based in Switzerland. One of the top spin-doctors in the Whitecoat/science areas.
Goldsmith
Cliff		 Took over PM briefly from Joe Cullman. CEO and President for a while. Became Chairman of the Tobacco Institute.
Gonzalez
Aurora		Manager of PR for the Latin American Region of Philip Morris International in New York.
Gori
Gio		NCI Research bureaucrat who promoted the idea that a safe cigarette could be developed -- then prematurely announced that it had -- and was fired. He then went to work for the tobacco industry through a number of different organisations, including the Frazer Institute.
Griscom
Tom		Journalist/Editor; Reagan aide, who became VP External Affairs and the head the RJ Reynolds disinformation operations.
Hammond
Cuyler		Research head at the American Cancer Society who co-authored a number of studies showing the link between smoking and lung-cancer, coronary heart disease.
Han
Vic		 PM disinformation operator who worked as the head of the team under Ellen Merlo (herself under Steve Parrish)
Hirayama
Takeshi		Japanese cancer epidemiologist who put the tobacco industry in a tail spin by showing through a massive study of non-smoking housewives, that passive-smoking had a substantial effect on their health.
Huber
Gary		Medical researcher in the pay of the combined tobacco industry. He operated out of Harvard (Beth Israel Hospital), then Kentucky University, then at the Texas University Medical Center.
Huber
Peter		Lawyer who worked through the Manhattan Institute (later American Spectator magazine) for any unfettered free-enterprise, corporate-promoting cause. He is said to have invented the term 'junk-science'.
Kraus
Margery		 Nominally the 'founder' of APCO, Philip Morris's privately controlled PR firm which was originally an Arnold & Porter's legal/PR operations. Later she headed an IPO.
Layard
Max		Science-for-sale operator. He worked for the tobacco industry, often in partnership with Maurice LeVois.
Lee
Peter N		A UK Statistician who worked as an independent advisor to the British tobacco industry (TAC), proving them with points of vulnerability to attack research the industry wanted to label as 'junk'.
Leslie
George		A toxicologist from a pharmaceutical firm, who set up as a consultant and scientific recruiter to the UK tobacco industry. He co-founded the ARIA 'Whitecoats laundry' group and worked for Philip Morris on its scientific witness program in Europe and Asia.
LeVois
Maurice		Science-for-sale operator (tobacco, chemical and other industries). He worked with George Carlo, and later Max Layard (c 1990) [Environmental Health Resources]
Linehan
Kathleen		 (Buffy) Washington in-house political lobbyist and spin-meister for Philip Morris.
Maxwell
Hamish		CEO and Chairman at PM. No 1 in the troika who ran the company in the 1990s, and top strategist for the tobacco industry. He was English.
Meese
Ed		Attorney-General in the Reagan Administration, and long-term powerbroker (some would say 'manipulator' or 'Svengali') behind Reagan. Ran or influenced many of Scaife/Coors legal institutes.
Merlo
Ellen		(Czarina) A marketing manager who rose to head the disinformation operations of Philip Morris USA, under Steve Parrish. She relished the wheelings and dealings.
Milloy
Steve		Backroom lobbyist for APCO and other industry policy institutes, who became prominent running TASSC ('junk-science') organisation and web-site for Phillip Morris and other poisoning and polluting companies.
Munro
Ian		Close associate of George Carlo. Canadian science-for-sale entrepreneur who also worked for the cellphone industry in the sham WTR operation. [CanTox]
Murray
RW (Bill)		CEO and spin-chief at PM: No.3 in the troika which ran the company in the 1990s. Top strategists for the tobacco industry.
Olson
Walter		Manhattan Institute 'researcher' who worked with Peter Huber to promote the tort-reform cause through labelling anti-tobacco/corporate science as "junk".
Osdene
Tom		London-born Philip Morris R&D executive who became one of the industry's top science-manipulation experts. He organised/corrupted conferences, recruited industry Whitecoats; and established the infamous CIAR. He also provided a liaison service between UK and US tobacco scientist (genuine and other).
Parrish
Steve		 Lawyer from Shook Hardy & Bacon, bought in to run the PM USA (domestic company's) disinformation and political influence programs in 1990. He became the industry spokesman during the Master Settlement Agreement negotiations.
Perry
Roger		Professor of Engineering and Environmental sciences at Imperial College (Uni of London). He conducted a major air-quality survey for the UK tobacco industry; prepared a very dubious report; then set up a major conference (heavily loaded with tobacco scientists) at the college to promote his findings. He was a cofounder of the ARIA group and worked as a scientific recruiter for Philip Morris in Europe and Asia (paid via a Swiss bank account)
Pershagen
Goran		Epidemiologist at the Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. He also worked with the WHO's IARC, while serving the tobacco industry surreptitiously.
Peterson
Jack		A trusted "industry outsider', who worked as an industrial hygienist (air-quality testing in buildings). He supported other tobacco-funded testing organisations in maintaining that second-hand smoke was only a minor factor in office air pollution.
Petersson
Carl-Gustav		Ran a couple of air-quality testing operations in Europe, some of them in association with Gray Robertson of HBI
Pottorff
Mary		(Mopsy) In-house spin controller in Philip Morris's Corporate Affairs division
Quinn
Jack		A democrat lawyer with Arnold & Porter who was involved in setting up many of Philip Morris's dirty-tricks campaigns (ATRA and TASSC). He became Al Gore's chief-of-staff, then counsel to President Clinton. Later he joined Ed Gillespie in a 'bipartisan' lobbyshop which had direct connections into the top administrators of both political parties.
Remes
David		 He was a lawyer associate of John Rupp at Covington & Burling, who worked extensively on the tobacco industry's "WhiteCoats" projects.
Resnik
Frank		In charge of PM's Tobacco Technology group; disinformation organiser on Smoking & Health issues.
Robertson
Gray		An expert in indoor air-quality and 'sick building syndrome' who was employed by the tobacco industry (via his firms ACVA and HBI) to promote the idea that second-hand smoke wasn't a real problem in the workplace or in general public smoking.
Robinson
Bernie		A second-level Philip Morris executive who looked after the European, African, Middle Eastern and some Asian operations. He also worked in the USA at various times (particularly Texas).
Rodriguez
Cesar		Director for the Latin American Region of PMI, Corporate Affairs, in the New York (Rye Brook) office. His main associate appears to be Aurora Gonzalez.
Roe
Francis		 A UK scientist who cast his lot with the tobacco industry at an early stage and provided them with a range of consulting services over the years. He became a key "WhiteCoat" recruiter, and helped run the ARIA and EGIL operations in Europe.
Rupp
John		Lawyer handling tobacco account at Covington & Burling. He ran many of the US and global scientific disinformation campaigns - especially the recruitment of scientists and academics under various 'WhiteCoats' projects. He was at the center of most of the tobacco industry's main conspiracies.
Rylander
Ragnar		Professor at both the Stockholm Karolinska Institute, and at Geneva University, Switzerland. He was one of the earliest and most productive tobacco scientists the industry ever owned. He was instrumental in setting up numerous (loaded) scientific conferences and he consulted to Philip Morris over its secretly-controlled INBIFO research organisation in Germany. He also worked with Linda Koo (Asian Whitecoat in Hong Kong) and visited her regularly;
Scaife
Richard Mellon		Pittsburgh billionaire who controlled a number of family foundations, and used these to channel hundreds of millions of dollars into far-right-wing 'libertarian' think-tanks, legal institutes and policy institutes. He was the main funder of the anti-Clinton Arkansas Project, and he controlled the American Spectator magazine via a foundation.
Schwartz
Sorrel		Professor of Pharmacology at Georgetown University, Washington DC. who headed the CEHHT division of the Medical School. He and his associate Nancy Balter also ran the US Whitecoats organisation IAPAG, which recruited and supplied scientific witnesses, letter-writers, etc. for the tobacco industry.
Seckler
Jeff		A whistle-blower on the fake air-testing operations of HBI and ACVA.
Seitz
Fred		Atomic physicist who squandered his considerable scientific reputation through alliance with the gung-ho right wing of the Republican party. President of Rockefeller University; he constantly begged money from the tobacco industry for research, and became a long-term adviser to RJ Reynolds. At the George C Marshall Institute, he led the climate denier chorus. The tobacco industry thought he was senile, but continued to use him because he supported their cause ... and they, his.
Seltzer
Carl		Harvard physical anthropologist, who was transformed through clever PR (by Philip Morris and Harvard's Fred Stare) into a "world famous heart specialist." He toured the world saying smoking was safe -- and proving it though many fake research projects published in 'peer reviewed journals'.
Stare
Frederick		Professor of Nutrition at Harvard University, who joined forces with Elizabeth Whelan to create the (anti-smoking) ACSH think-tank while secretly laundering payments from the tobacco industry to Harvard scientists/academics.
Staunton
Donna		Australian lawyer who headed both the Tobacco Institute of Australia, and PM Australia's disinformation operations.
Staunton-Mayne
Donna		Australian lawyer (ex Clayton Utz) who headed both the Tobacco Institute of Australia, and PM Australia's disinformation operations.
Tozzi
Jim		ex-Reagan OMB aide; Tozzi and Thorn Auchter ran the MBS lobbyshop, Federal Focus, and a half-dozen other pseudo-policy institutes. Worked extensively for tobacco and other poisoning and polluting industries.
Walk
Roger (aka Reudiger-Alex) 		PM (International and USA) disinformation manager
Wall
Chuck		 Lawyer with SH&B who joined PM International in 1990 to run their main anti-litigation operations. Close associate of Steve Parrish.
Weinberg
Myron		A professional recruitment operator for 'friendly scientists'. He worked for the tobacco, chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Ran his own business, and the Washington Technology Group. Operated in the US, Europe and Asia.
Weissman
George		 Chairman and CEO of PM in 1978-80 period. His roots were in PR and journalism, and he focussed on dirty-tricks and pseudo-science. He followed Cullman, and preceded Maxwell.
Wells
Kendrick		B&W's General Counsel who was a key member of the lawyer's cadre which ran tobacco research.
Westcott
David		UK Imperial Tobacco's Director of R&D - later he worked as a consultant for Tom Osdene of Philip Morris.
Westlin
Arne		Swedish occupational hygienist; member of both ARIA and EGIL tobacco-laundry groups.
Wexler
Anne		Secretary of Commerce and aide to Jimmy Carter; Close friend of the Clintons; she ran of Democratic lobbyshop which joined with Republican Robert Walker and others. She specialised in international friendship organisations and bilateral trade.
Weyrich Paul & Diana Goldwater/Reagan Republicans who joined forces with the far-right, religious-conservatives, and pro-segregationists. They ran dozens of neo-con operations, including NET (television network). Involved in any nefarious Republican activity going.
Whelan
Elizabeth		 Student/partner with Fred Stare at Harvard in running support for food processing, chemicals and pharmaceutical industries. Was fervently anti-smoking - which gave her credibility. Ran the ACSH 'scientific grassroots' operation.
Whist
Andrew		Top spin-executive (Vice President, Corporate Affairs) at Philip Morris International (ex Australia). Operated globally.
Witorsch
Phillip		 (Brother of Ray/Rafael) Pulmonary surgeon. Founder with Sorrel Schwartz of the IAPAG/CEHHT tobacco scientific support group, and a professional witness around the world for the tobacco industry. He now runs the International Center for Toxicology and Medicine, Rockville
Witorsch
Ray (Rafael)		Professor of Physiology at the Medical College of Virginia. He follows in his older brother's footsteps; he is a peripatetic witness and junketeer for the global tobacco industry.
Wynder
Ernest		Genuine anti-smoking researcher at SKI, who took over the AHF and then found he had to maintain the flow of money from the tobacco industry in order to continue his research. He sometimes crossed the line between criticising and supporting the tobacco industry. They saw him as a gullible old fool in later years.