His foreign languages were Russian, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), French, Spanish, Icelandic, and Indonesian.
Brement entered the Foreign Service in 1956 as staff assistant in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs.
He attended Chinese language training in Taichung in 1958–1960, and was political officer in Hong Kong in 1960–1963.
He later served on the National Security Council as a Soviet adviser to President Jimmy Carter and was a deputy to U.S.
He was fluent in French, Spanish, Hebrew, Russian, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), Icelandic, and Indonesian.