Vladimir Aleksandrovich Pozner (russian: Владимир Александрович Познер; 24 October 1908 – 31 July 1975) was a

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émigré to the United States. During World War II he spied for Soviet intelligence while he was employed by the US government.Pavel Pozner (12 October 2014
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''Medved magazine'' Pozner was born in St. Petersburg. His family fled Soviet Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution, and Vladimir Pozner became a

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sympathizer while living in Europe. Vladimir Pozner and his family moved to

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and later to Moscow in the early 1950s. There he worked as a senior audio engineer for the Soviet film industry. His sister,

Victoria Mercanton Victoria Mercanton, or Victoria Spiri-Mercanton (1911–2007), was a French film editor and director, born Victoria Aleksandr Pozner (russian: Виктория Александровна Познер) on January 25, 1911, in Saint Petersburg, Russ ...

, was an in-demand film editor based in France. He retired in 1968, and in 1969 suffered a heart attack. Pozner died on 31 July 1975 during a flight from Paris to Moscow. Vladimir Pozner's cover name as identified in the Venona project by NSA/FBI analysts was "Platon" or Plato in Russian. Pozner's son,

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, born in 1934, worked as a journalist and interpreter in the United States, Soviet Union and later in Russia.

References

Venona

Pozner is referenced in the following Venona project decrypts: * 1131–1133 KGB New York to Moscow, 13 July 194

* 1930 KGB New York to Moscow, 21 November 194

External links

* John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'', New Haven: Yale University Press, c1999, . p. 233; 2000 (c1999), , wit
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Website of son Vladimir Pozner
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pozner, Vladimir 1908 births 1975 deaths American emigrants to the Soviet Union American people of Russian-Jewish descent Russian Jews Soviet spies against the United States Venona project World War II spies for the Soviet Union