Vladimir Aleksandrovich Pozner (; 24 October 1908 – 31 July 1975) was a Russian-Jewish émigré to the United States. During World War II, he spied for Soviet intelligence while he was employed by the US government.Pavel Pozner (12 October 2014) Владимир Познер-старший . Medved magazine
Pozner was born in St. Petersburg. His family fled Soviet Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution, and Vladimir Pozner became a Communist sympathizer while living in Europe. Vladimir Pozner and his family moved to East Berlin and later to Moscow in the early 1950s. There he worked as a senior audio engineer for the Soviet film industry.
His sister, Victoria Mercanton, was an in-demand film editor based in France. He retired in 1968, and in 1969 suffered a heart attack. Pozner died on 31 July 1975 during a flight from Paris to Moscow.
Vladimir Pozner's cover name as identified in the Venona project by NSA/FBI analysts was "Platon" or Plato in Russian. Pozner's son, Vladimir Pozner Jr., born in 1934, worked as a journalist and interpreter in the United States, Soviet Union and later in Russia.
References
Venona Pozner is referenced in the following Venona project decrypts: 1131–1133 KGB New York to Moscow, 13 July 1943 1930 KGB New York to Moscow, 21 November 1943
External links John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, New Haven: Yale University Press, c1999, . p. 233; 2000 (c1999), , with preview via Google books, p. 362. Website of son Vladimir Pozner