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 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.
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- Alexander Vassiliev’s Notes on Anatoly Gorsky’s December 1948 Memo on Compromised American Sources and Networks
- FBI Silvermaster file
