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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. | + | '''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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| | 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]]. |
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| | Bernsteins code with the GRU and in the [[Venona project]] is "MARQUIS". | | Bernsteins code with the GRU and in the [[Venona project]] is "MARQUIS". |
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| | 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. |
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| | ==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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| | [[Category:KGB Agents and Sources]] | | [[Category:KGB Agents and Sources]] |
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