The global PR firm Edelman [3]'s six-month-long contract to help build international support for Thaksin Shinawatra [4], who was ousted in a September 2006 military coup, has been revealed as being worth $300,000. The contract is via Thaksin's law firm, Baker Botts. However, Edelman's success led to its Thai affiliate, Spindler & Associates (S&A), terminating [5] its relationship with the firm. The head of S&A is Julian Spindler, whose wife is Kanjana Spindler, the Deputy Secretary General to the military-installed Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont. The Thai newspaper The Nation reports [6] that Thaksin has also hired the U.S. law firm Barbour Griffith and Rogers [7], to "provide guidance and counsel with regard to Mr Thaksin's interest in Washington, DC, and abroad."