A blast from the past

You can make this stuff up! I know that Abramoff was president of the College Republicans in the 80's and that he was in Hollywood making movies before he "came back" to politics as a lobbyist but this report from South Africa's Mail & Guardian sheds a little light on what Jack was doing in his lost years. It reads more like Tom Clancy or Jack's dumb movie.

Sample:

For several years after its launch in 1985, Abramoff (47) was the Washington face of Pacman, code name for the International Freedom Foundation (IFF). In 1995, the New Nation reported former security policeman Paul Erasmus as describing the IFF as a stratcom-military intelligence (MI) project designed to sway world opinion against the anti- apartheid movement.

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The IFF was ostensibly founded as a conservative think-tank, but was in reality part of an elaborate South African military intelligence operation, code-named Operation Babushka. Established to combat sanctions and undermine the African National Congress...

Nice work for a nice guy, eh...?