Alvin Snyder

Alvin Snyder (March 31, 1936 – January 28, 2019) at the United States Information Agency.

Early life Snyder was born on March 31, 1936, in Trenton, New Jersey.

Career 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.

Alvin Snyder was featured on David Frost's series Playhouse Presents. "Nixon's the One," a reenactment using verbatim dialogue from the Nixon White House tapes, featured actor Ryan McLuskey as Snyder opposite Harry Shearer's Nixon during the President's resignation address.

USIA and KAL 007 role Later he became a Director of TV and Film

Snyder is also well known for writing the book Warriors of Disinformation: American Propaganda, Soviet Lies, and the Winning of the Cold War (1995). In his 1995 memoir, he wrote that "the U.S. government ran a full-service public relations organization, the largest in the world, about the size of the twenty biggest U.S. commercial PR firms combined. Its full-time professional staff of more than 10,000 spread out among some 150 countries, burnished America‘s image and trashed the Soviet Union 2,500 hours a week with a tower of babble more than 70 languages, to the tune of over $2 billion per year", and "the biggest branch of this propaganda machine" was the USIA.

Later life Snyder died at the age of 82 in McLean, Virginia.

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