'''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. | '''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. |