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'''Bernard Sidney Redmont''' obtained an M.S. form the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1939 and was awarded the school’s highest honor, '''[[Pulitzer]] Traveling Fellowship'''. Redmont has a reading and speaking knowledge of German and Latin.  Redmont served as ''[[CBS News]]'' Moscow and Paris Bureau Chief during the [[Vietnam War]] and is referred to in the FBI [[Silvermaster group]] file as a "known [[KGB|Soviet agent]]." <ref>FBI Silvermaster file [http://education-research.org/PDFs/Silvermaster062.pdf Vol. 62, pgs. 1 - 31] late July 1946.  Volume consists entirely of report on activities and contacts of Bernard Redmont in Latin America; Redmont is described as “known Soviet agent” pg. 13; heavily redacted.  See also  Bentley deposition; “Underground Soviet Espionage Organization (NKVD) in Agencies of the United States Government,” serial 573, and FBI Washington Field Office report, 21 April 1947, serial 2349.</ref>

'''Bernard Sidney Redmont''' obtained an M.S. form the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1939 and was awarded the school’s highest honor, '''[[Pulitzer]] Traveling Fellowship'''. Redmont has a reading and speaking knowledge of German and Latin.  Redmont was a [[propagandist]] and [[KGB]] agent during [[World War II]] who worked as [[CBS News]] [[Moscow]] and Paris Bureau Chief during the [[Vietnam War]].  Redmont is extensivley cited in the [[FBI]] [[Silvermaster group]] file as a "known [[KGB|Soviet agent]]." <ref>FBI Silvermaster file [http://education-research.org/PDFs/Silvermaster062.pdf Vol. 62, pgs. 1 - 31] late July 1946.  Volume consists entirely of report on activities and contacts of Bernard Redmont in Latin America; Redmont is described as “known Soviet agent” pg. 13; heavily redacted.  See also  Bentley deposition; “Underground Soviet Espionage Organization (NKVD) in Agencies of the United States Government,” serial 573, and FBI Washington Field Office report, 21 April 1947, serial 2349.</ref>

 

Redmont was an employee of the [[Rockefeller Commission]] and was the head of the Foreign News Bureau of the Office of the [[Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs]] (CIAA).

Redmont was an employee of the [[Rockefeller Commission]] and was the head of the Foreign News Bureau of the Office of the [[Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs]] (CIAA).

Redmont was identified by [[Elizabeth Bentley]] as one of her contacts  who supplied her with information from he gathered while employed in the CIAA for transmission to the [[Soviet Union]].<ref>Bentley deposition [http://foia.fbi.gov/silversm/silversm3a.pdf pgs. 278-284]</ref> Redmont also is identified in the ''Gorsky Memo''  as codename MON.  The ''Gorsky Memo'' is a December 1948 memo written by [[Anatoly Gorsky]], a senior official of the '''Committee of Information''' ([[KGB|'''KI''']]), the agency then supervising Soviet foreign intelligence and was discovered in KGB Archives in Moscow.<ref>Alexander Vassiliev, [http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page44.html#_ftnref65 Notes on A. Gorsky’s Report to Savchenko S.R.,] KGB file 43173 vol. 2 (v) pp. 46-55, 23 December 1949.</ref> Code name "MON" also occurs in the [[Venona]] transcripts as a Soviet source but was never identified by Arlington Hall cryptographers, and is compatible with identification from Soviet Archives of "MON" as Redmont.

Redmont was identified by [[Elizabeth Bentley]] as one of her contacts  who supplied her with information from he gathered while employed in the CIAA for transmission to the [[Soviet Union]].<ref>Bentley deposition [http://foia.fbi.gov/silversm/silversm3a.pdf pgs. 278-284]</ref> Redmont also is identified in the ''Gorsky Memo''  as codename MON.  The ''Gorsky Memo'' is a December 1948 memo written by [[Anatoly Gorsky]], a senior official of the '''Committee of Information''' ([[KGB|'''KI''']]), the agency then supervising Soviet foreign intelligence and was discovered in KGB Archives in Moscow.<ref>Alexander Vassiliev, [http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page44.html#_ftnref65 Notes on A. Gorsky’s Report to Savchenko S.R.,] KGB file 43173 vol. 2 (v) pp. 46-55, 23 December 1949.</ref> Code name "MON" also occurs in the [[Venona]] transcripts as a Soviet source but was never identified by Arlington Hall cryptographers, and is compatible with identification from Soviet Archives of "MON" as Redmont.

Redmont became ''[[CBS News]]'' Moscow and Paris bureau chief and also worked for Westinghouse Broadcasting Corporation/Group W and other media outlets. In 1961 Redmont served as President of the Anglo-American Press Association. In 1968 Redmont covered the [[Vietnam War|Paris peace negotiations]] and was granted an interview by North Vietnamese negotiator '''Mai Van Bo'''.<ref>[http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/johnsonlb/vi/13682.htm Bernard Redmont interview with Mai Van Bo, Hanoi's representative in Paris peace negotiations]</ref> In 1973 Redmont covered the [[Yom Kippur War]]. Later he became Dean Emeritus of Boston University College of Communication. <ref>[http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/Articles/Professors%20of%20Denial.htm Professors of Denial: Ignoring the truth about American Communists]</ref> Redmont authored of ''Risks Worth Taking: The Odyssey of a Foreign Correspondent''.  

Redmont became ''[[CBS News]]'' Moscow and Paris bureau chief and also worked for Westinghouse Broadcasting Corporation/Group W and other media outlets. In 1961 Redmont served as President of the Anglo-American Press Association. In 1968 Redmont covered the [[Vietnam War|Paris peace negotiations]] and was granted an interview by North Vietnamese negotiator '''Mai Van Bo'''.<ref>[http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/johnsonlb/vi/13682.htm Bernard Redmont interview with Mai Van Bo, Hanoi's representative in Paris peace negotiations]</ref> In 1973 Redmont covered the [[Yom Kippur War]]. Later he became Dean Emeritus of Boston University College of Communication. <ref>[http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/Articles/Professors%20of%20Denial.htm Professors of Denial: Ignoring the truth about American Communists]</ref> Redmont authored of ''Risks Worth Taking: The Odyssey of a Foreign Correspondent''.  

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