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. Columbia University is a private university in New York City. ... Journalism is a discipline of collecting, verifying, analyzing and presenting information gathered regarding current events, including trends, issues and people. ... Pulitzer may refer to: Joseph Pulitzer, a U.S. newspaper publisher and journalist Roxanne Pulitzer, society diva Pulitzer Prize, an annual U.S. journalism award Pulitzer, Inc. ...

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). Rockefeller Commission can refer to either of two commissions in the US Congress, although it is not the proper name of either: The 1972 Presidents Commission on Population Growth and the American Future, headed by John D. Rockefeller 3rd. ... The Office of Inter-American Affairs. ...

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. Redmont also appears in the Gorsky Memo, a December 1948 memo written by Anatoly Gorsky. Gorsky was a senior official of the Committee of Information (KI), the agency then supervising Soviet foreign intelligence. Code name "Mon" occurs in the Venona transcripts as an unidentified Soviet source and one compatible with identification of "Mon" as Redmont. Elizabeth Terrill Bentley (1905-1963) A graduate of Vassar, Bentley was studying in Italy at the University of Florence when she first became interested in fascism. ... The Committee for State Security, or KGB, (Russian: Комите́т Госуда́рственной Безопа́сности; Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti  listen?), was the name of the main Soviet Security Agency and intelligence agency, as well as the main secret police agency from March 13, 1954 to November 6, 1991. ... The VENONA project was a long-running and highly secret collaboration between the United States intelligence agencies and the United Kingdoms MI5 that involved the cryptanalysis of Soviet messages. ...

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 Paris peace negotiations and was granted an interview by North Vietnamese negogiator Mai Van Bo. In 1973 Redmont covered the Yom Kippur War. Later he became Dean Emeritus of Boston University College of Communication. Redmont authored of Risks Worth Taking: The Odyssey of a Foreign Correspondent. A CBS News Special Report ident card CBS News is the news division of CBS. Its current president is Andrew Heyward. ... Group W was a subdivision of Westinghouse Electric Corporation. ... The Vietnam War was fought from 1957 to 1975 between Soviet and Chinese-supported Vietnamese nationalist and Communist forces and an array of Western and pro-Western forces, most notably the United States. ... The Yom Kippur War (Hebrew: Milchemet Yom HaKipurim (מלחמת יום הכיפורים), also known as the October War, the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, and the Ramadan War), was fought from October 6 (the day of Yom Kippur) to October 24, 1973, between Israel and a coalition of Egypt and Syria. ... A professor is a senior teacher and researcher, usually in a college or university. ... Boston University is a non-sectarian private university located in Boston, Massachusetts. ...

Sources

• Alexander Vassiliev’s Notes on Anatoly Gorsky’s December 1948 Memo on Compromised American Sources and Networks
• Professors of Denial: Ignoring the truth about American Communists
• FBI Silvermaster file

External link

• Bernard Redmont interview with Mai Van Bo, Hanoi's representative in Paris peace negotiations