Vladimir Aleksandrovich Pozner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Pozner

Date of Birth: 24-Oct-1908

Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg

Date of Death: 31-Jul-1975

Profession: audio engineer, army scout

Nationality: United States, Lithuania, France

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Pozner (Russian: ?????´??? ??????´??????? ??´????), (1908—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.Born in St.
Petersburg, the Pozner 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. 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 Vladimirovich Pozner, spoke internationally on behalf of Soviet agencies and, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, came to be treated in the US under the name Vladimir Posner (having anglicized his surname), as an independent journalist.