Career
During World World War II he spied for Soviet intelligence while being employed by the United States Government. The Pozner family fled Soviet Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution, and Vladimir Pozner became a Communist sympathizer while living in Europe. In 1943 he headed the Russian Section of the film department of the United States. War Department.
Pozner was a frequent contact of Louise Bransten.
Vladimir Pozner’s cover name as identified in the project by National Security Agency/Federal Bureau of Investigation analysts is «Platon» («Plato»). Vladimir Pozner and his family moved to East Berlin and later to Moscow in the early 1950s.
Pozner’s son, Vladimir Vladimirovich Pozner, spoke internationally on behalf of Soviet agencies, and, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, came to be treated in the United States., under the name Vladimir Posner (having Anglicized the surname), as an independent journalist. Pozner is referenced in the following project decrypts:
1131-1133 Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) New York to Moscow, 13 July 1943
1930 Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) New York to Moscow, 21 November 1943.