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'''Joseph Milton Bernstein''' recruited his fellow Communist [[T.A. Bisson]] who had stopped working at the [[Board of Economic Warfare]] (BEW) and began working in the [[Institute of Pacific Relations]] (IPR) and in the editorial offices of Bernstein's periodical ''[[Amerasia]]''.  Bisson passed to Bernstein copies of four documents: (a) his own report for BEW with his views on working out a plan for shipment of American troops to China; (b) a report by the Chinese embassy in Washington to its government in China; (c) a brief BEW report of April 1943 on a general evaluation of the forces of the sides on the [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Soviet-German front]]; and (d) a report by the American consul in Vladivostok.

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'''Joseph Milton Bernstein''' recruited his fellow Communist [[T.A. Bisson]] who had stopped working at the [[Board of Economic Warfare]] (BEW) and began working in the [[Institute of Pacific Relations]] (IPR) and in the editorial offices of Bernstein’s periodical ''[[Amerasia]]''.  Bisson passed to Bernstein copies of four documents: (a) his own report for BEW with his views on working out a plan for shipment of American troops to China; (b) a report by the Chinese embassy in Washington to its government in China; (c) a brief BEW report of April 1943 on a general evaluation of the forces of the sides on the [[Eastern Front (World War II)| Soviet-German front]]; and (d) a report by the American consul in Vladivostok.

Bernstein functioned as the contact between Soviet Military Intelligence ([[GRU]]) and [[Philip Keeney]] of the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS) and his wife, [[Mary Jane Keeney]] of the [[Board of Economic Warfare]] and later the [[United Nations]].

Bernstein functioned as the contact between Soviet Military Intelligence ([[GRU]]) and [[Philip Keeney]] of the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS) and his wife, [[Mary Jane Keeney]] of the [[Board of Economic Warfare]] and later the [[United Nations]].

Bernsteins code with the GRU and in the [[Venona project]] is "MARQUIS".

Bernsteins code with the GRU and in the [[Venona project]] is "MARQUIS".

=== Source ===

== Sources ==

John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America,'' Yale University Press, 1999.

John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America,'' Yale University Press, 1999.

==External links==

==External links==

*[http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=455 McCarthyism: Waging the Cold War in America], by M. Stanton Evans, ''Human Events'', 05/30/1997. Updated 05/08/2003.

*[http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=455 McCarthyism: Waging the Cold War in America], by M. Stanton Evans, ''Human Events'', 05/30/1997. Updated 05/08/2003.

 

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