Brian D. Litman
| Brian D. Litman | |
|---|---|
| Born | 9 May 1954 Kansas City, Missouri; United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Missouri School of Journalism at University of Missouri |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur, Executive, Inventor |
| Known for | MP3 Technology, Media Development in Russia, Founding Chairman of Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Cable Committee, Release of KGB Archives on Lee Harvey Oswald |
| Notable work | System and method for advertisement sponsored content distribution (United States US6988277 B2 Patent Issued February 6, 2001) |
Brian D. Litman (born May 9, 1954) is an American media, entertainment and technology entrepreneur and inventor.
In the seventies, Litman worked as a journalist, radio producer/broadcaster and record company executive. By the eighties, Litman took an interest in the emergent cable and satellite television industries, working in both cable television (CATV) operations and satellite television network programming. At the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, he was the founding chairman of the cable and satellite committee and also served on the Emmy Awards Committee.
At the beginning of the nineties, Litman was living in Moscow, Russia serving as a business consultant to state-controlled media companies before and after the Collapse of the Soviet Union. His mandate was to help major television, newspaper and magazine operations transform themselves from state-subsidy towards commercial self-sufficiency.
As an American engaged with politically sensitive media organizations under the direct control of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Litman immediately appeared on the radar of Soviet intelligence - who considered him a potential intelligence operative working under non-official cover.
Aware he was under surveillance, Litman, during the chaos following the 1991 August Coup and subsequent Soviet collapse, transformed himself from espionage target to business associate of his surveillants.
In 1992, Litman negotiated a strategic relationship with the Soviet KGB and its successor - the Russian SVR. He became the executive producer in a broad joint-venture with the global intelligence organization for the development of historical content concerning espionage and the Cold War for books, film, television and the lecture circuit. In 1993, Litman shepherded the release of highly classified materials from KGB regarding the assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald. The materials, revealed in a book Litman packaged, showed Oswald's disturbed and violent personality while living as a defector in the Soviet Union.
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