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Alvin Snyder (March 31, 1936 - January 28 2019) was an American journalist and author.
Career & Work with President Nixon[edit]
Snyder started his career at CBS News in New York in 1959 as a news producer and was an editor on a documentary on Edward R. Murrow that won a Grammy award in 1967. He was later recruited by The Nixon White House and appointed Deputy Special Assistant by Richard Nixon to run TV operations in the newly established Office of Communications.[1] Alvin Snyder was featured on David Frost's series by Playhouse Presents
[2] that contains the actual spoken words verbatim from the Nixon White House tapes[3] portrayed by actor Ryan McLuskey in the video reenactment of Richard Nixon's resignation speech[4]
USIA and KAL 007 Role[edit]
Later he became a Director of TV & Film [5] at the US Information Agency in Washington as an aide to Charles Z. Wick. A key contribution for Snyder at the USIA was documented after the downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007. Snyder was credited with producing the video shown to the UN Security Council in 1983 that uncovered more evidence of Russia's role in the downing of the civilian aircraft.
Annenberg and Disinformation Book[edit]
Later as a fellow at the Annenberg Foundation, he published a widely used text on the use of propaganda by the US Government Snyder served as a Senior Fellow for the University of Southern California Center for Public Diplomacy. Snyder wrote the book Snyder, Alvin (1995). Warriors of Disinformation: American Propaganda, Soviet Lies, and the Winning of the Cold War'. ISBN 9781559703895.