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Home » Tobacco and Health » Media and Tobacco » Exposé Journalist Conned Colleagues For 35 Years as Spy for Tobacco Org Exposé Journalist Conned Colleagues For 35 Years as Spy for Tobacco Org in Tobacco Shopping Supplies Directory |
He spied on newsmen and newswomen, too. This industrial espionage took place during the height of the cigarette wars, starting in the early 60s. The PR man cum journalist is Leonard S. Zahn, of Great Neck, N.Y., a Long Island suburb of New York City. Starting in 1955, and continuing until the mid90s, Zahn represented the Council for Tobacco Research CTR, an industry front group. The CTR has been dissolved, pursuant to an agreement last year with New York State, the states attorney general says. However, CTR was still answering its phone last month. In a key earlier trial, Cipollone v. Liggett et al., in which damaging tobacco documents first began to flood into public view, U.S. District Judge H. Lee Sarokin said of CTR: The creation of this entity, and the work [it] performed was nothing but a hoax created for public relations purposes, with no intention of seeking the truth or publishing it.
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