Vladimir Aleksandrovich Pozner (Russian: Владимир Александрович Познер; 24 October 1908 – 31 July 1975) was a Russian-Jewish émigré to the United States.
His family fled Soviet Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution, and Vladimir Pozner became a Communist sympathizer while living in Europe.
[2] Vladimir Pozner and his family moved to East Berlin and later to Moscow in the early 1950s.
His sister, Victoria Mercanton, was an in-demand film editor based in France.
[1] Vladimir Pozner's cover name as identified in the Venona project by NSA/FBI analysts was "Platon" or Plato in Russian.