Bernard Redmont

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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.

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).

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.

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.