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| style="background: #ccf; text-align: center;" | '''This article is part of the'''<br>'''[[Venona project|Venona]]'''<br>'''series.'''
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'''Thomas Arthur Bisson''' was an Asia specialist working in the World War II [[Board of Economic Warfare]] (BEW) and later the [[Institute of Pacific Relations]] (IPR). He was an American citizen who as a Soviet spy reported to the New York [[GRU]] (Soviet Military Intelligence) in 1943. Bisson was a founding editorial board member of ''[[Amerasia]]'' and ''China Today''.
Bisson supplied the GRU in 1943 through [[Joseph Bernstein]] confidential BEW reports including a joint British-American evaluation of the military situation on the [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Soviet-German front]], as well as reports on American strength in the [[China Burma India Theater of World War II|China theatre]] of operations, a report by the Chineses embassy in Washington D.C. on trade between Chinese nationals in Japan and Chinese mainland industrialists, a report by an American consul on conditions in Vladivostok, a report on [[Chiang Kai-shek]]'s war with the [[CCP]], and internal United States government discussions regarding direct contact with [[Maoist]] forces to arrange establishment of air bases in territories fallen under their control.
His code name in GRU intelligence reports and the [[Venona]] files is "Arthur".
==Further reading==
*T.A. Bisson, ''American Policy in the Far East, 1931-1941'', Institute of Pacific Relations
=== Source ===
*John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America,'' Yale University Press
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[[Category:KGB Agents and Sources]]
| style="background: #ccf; text-align: center;" | '''This article is part of the'''<br>'''[[Venona project|Venona]]'''<br>'''series.'''
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| style="text-align: center;"|[[CPUSA]]
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| style="text-align: center;"|[[Board of Economic Warfare]]
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| style="text-align: center;"|[[Institute of Pacific Relations]]
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| style="text-align: center;"|''[[Amerasia]]''
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| style="text-align: center;"|<small>[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:Ushistory&action=edit Edit this box]</small>
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'''Thomas Arthur Bisson''' was an Asia specialist working in the World War II [[Board of Economic Warfare]] (BEW) and later the [[Institute of Pacific Relations]] (IPR). He was an American citizen who as a Soviet spy reported to the New York [[GRU]] (Soviet Military Intelligence) in 1943. Bisson was a founding editorial board member of ''[[Amerasia]]'' and ''China Today''.
Bisson supplied the GRU in 1943 through [[Joseph Bernstein]] confidential BEW reports including a joint British-American evaluation of the military situation on the [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Soviet-German front]], as well as reports on American strength in the [[China Burma India Theater of World War II|China theatre]] of operations, a report by the Chineses embassy in Washington D.C. on trade between Chinese nationals in Japan and Chinese mainland industrialists, a report by an American consul on conditions in Vladivostok, a report on [[Chiang Kai-shek]]'s war with the [[CCP]], and internal United States government discussions regarding direct contact with [[Maoist]] forces to arrange establishment of air bases in territories fallen under their control.
His code name in GRU intelligence reports and the [[Venona]] files is "Arthur".
==Further reading==
*T.A. Bisson, ''American Policy in the Far East, 1931-1941'', Institute of Pacific Relations
=== Source ===
*John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America,'' Yale University Press
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bisson, T.A.}}
[[Category:KGB Agents and Sources]]