| Birth Date: | 24 October 1908 |
| Birth Place: | Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Death Date: | 31 July 1975 (aged 66) |
| Death Place: | Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Occupation: | Audio engineer, spy |
| Relatives: | Vladimir Pozner Jr. (son) Vladimir Pozner (writer) (cousin) Victoria Mercanton (younger sister) |
| Alma Mater: | University of Paris |
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Pozner (Russian: Владимир Александрович Познер; 24 October 1908 – 31 July 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.[1]
Pozner was born in St. Petersburg. 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. There he worked as a senior audio engineer for the Soviet film industry.
His sister, Victoria Mercanton, was an in-demand film editor based in France. He retired in 1968, and in 1969 suffered a heart attack. Pozner died on 31 July 1975 during a flight from Paris to Moscow.[1]
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 Pozner Jr., born in 1934, worked as a journalist and interpreter in the United States, Soviet Union and later in Russia.
Pozner is referenced in the following Venona project decrypts: