Burson-Marsteller is working to buff the image of the Iraqi National Congress, said Riva Levinson, managing director of BKSH & Assocs., B-M's lobbying wing. "Our contract is with the Iraqi National Congress Support Foundation," she said.

INC head Ahmed Chalibi, a banker whose family fled Iraq in 1958, faces opposition from various political groups in Iraq. They consider him a pawn of the U.S.

The Pentagon flew Chalibi and 700 "free Iraqi forces" into the country this month. He unexpectedly marched into Baghdad with 100 fighters on April 16, strengthening his position in a swifly developing race for power among disparate Iraqi factions," according to the Washington Times.

The Rendon Group worked closely with the INC during the `90s to drum up opposition to Hussein.