About Seymour Freidin
Lived 1917 – 1991 (aged 73–74). Seymour Freidin was a newspaper editor.
Seymour Kenneth Freidin (27 April 1917 – 12 April 1991) was an American journalist and author.
Freidin was born in New York City.
In August 1973, Friedin was revealed to be one of the correspondents hired by Nixon political operative Murray Chotiner to spy on the 1972 United States presidential election campaign of Democrat George McGovern under the code name "Chapman's Friend." Friedin served as "Chapman's Friend" until 7 September 1972 when he was replaced in the role by Lucianne Goldberg. Friedin and Goldberg were each paid $1000 a week for their work as undercover operatives.
He married Lillian Stiva Berger in 1950; the couple had two sons, Joshua and Nicholas, two grandsons and two granddaughters. He died aged 73 in a retirement home in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1991 after a stroke.
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American journalist
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Seymour Freidin was born on 27 April 1917.
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Seymour Freidin died in 1991.
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