Al Kamen reports:
Jones, who served as the United States ambassador to Kazakhstan from 1995 to 1997 and during the Bush administration served as Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia, is now an executive vice president at APCO Worldwide, a public relations firm headquartered in Washington. Interestingly, she was caught up in a bizarre bit of undercover reporting by Ken Silverstein of Harper’s magazine. Silverstein posed as a shady “consultant” working for a fictional company that was supposed to be engaged by the government of Turkmenistan to improve that country’s image in the United States. Turkmenistan, of course, has an atrocious human rights record, and Silverstein made the source of his funding sound as corrupt as possible:
