As the director of worldwide television and film service for the U.S. Information Agency, Alvin A. Snyder was a top official propagandist for the American State during the Cold War. He speaks with authoritative insider knowledge concerning the Reagan regime response to the downing of Korean Airlines Flight 007, with its 269 passengers and crew, by Major Gennady Osipovich, in his Sukhoi-15 fighter. He was directed by State Department officials to prepare a video document for the U.N. Security Council showing that the Soviets engaged in deliberate, pre-meditated aggression against the plane. He later found out how he had been seriously misled and that the ultimate facts of the tragedy did not fit the narrative he was instructed to compile. The ex-Soviet pilot still insists KAL 007 was spying. Snyder later wrote an account of his tenure in propaganda and duplicity, Warriors of Disinformation: How Charles Wick, the USIA, and Videotape Won the Cold War.
How many persons in the Obama administration, the Congress, or the mainstream elite media belligerently sounding off against Putin and Russia concerning the recent Malaysian airliner tragedy have read this book? Show of hands? I thought so.
9:53 pm on July 21, 2014
