Benito Reverente

Dr. Benito R. Reverente Jr. was a medical doctor and lecturer at the University of the Philippines, and a President of the Asian Association of Occupational Health (AAOH) between 1982 and 1985 (which came under the control of the tobacco companies). He worked for the Philippine Refining Co. (Unilever)

He also sat on the World Health Organisation's Occupational Health Panel, which gave him considerable status in the eyes of his Asian peers -- and added considerably to his value as a Whitecoat recruit (covert scientific supporter of the tobacco industry) in the eyes of his Philip Morris paymasters.

Reverente's was identified as a likely candidate by the Asian ETS Consulting project (also called Asian Whitecoats. This team of recruiters  was run primarily by John Rupp a lawyer-lobbyist-strategist with the tobacco industry's main legal firm, Covington & Burling, and by three British Whitecoats through their consulting front called ARIA ( Professor Roger Perry, George Leslie ("GL" in the documents) and Francis J. C. Roe)

In mid 1989 they were "confident that he will join them" along with a number of other new recruits, and the report comments that:
 * ''Prof He does not know, however, the ultimate source of these funds;"

This was specifically not said about Wong and Reverente who were both being recruited at the same time. He was eventually formally recruited as a covert consultant in October 1989  and he in turn, helped them enlist others such as Professor Lina Somera at the College of Public Health at the same university.
 * "Dr. Reverente is our most senior consultant to date.  He is clinically qualified and, more importantly, has more connections throughout Asia and the rest of the world than anyone else we saw.   His English is, not surprisingly, excellent and he has a serious though warm personality.   Excepting the fact that he is from the Philippines -- and not, for example, Japan, -- Dr.   Reverente has all the earmarks of a team leader for Asia. "

He was to be paid his normal consulting fee, which turned out to be $600 per day (in April 1989), and his friend Lina Somera got the same amount.

Reverente attended the infamous McGill Conference in November 1989, which had been run as a closed and controlled symposium for their own scientists and new recruits by Philip Morris at the McGill University in Montreal, Canada. This conference was both a junket, and a training ground for those new to the Whitecoats program. It enabled them to get their names into print in the proceedings of the conference, published and distributed by PM's fake NGO, the Institute for International Health & Development. This gave them some legitimacy in the science of Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) in the eyes of the media.

He also attended and gave a paper at the Lisbon Conference where Philip Morris focussed more on problems of the Asian climate, when it was apparent that their new Asia recruits needed further training and better ETS credentials.