June 1937.]]
'''Thomas Arthur Bisson''' was an [[Asia ]] specialist working in the [[World War II ]] [[Board of Economic Warfare]] (BEW) and later the [[Institute of Pacific Relations]] (IPR). He was an [[American ]] citizen who as a [[Soviet ]] spy reported to the [[New York ]] [[GRU]] (Soviet Military Intelligence) in 1943. Bisson was a founding editorial board member of ''[[Amerasia]]'' and ''China Today''.
Bisson supplied the GRU in 1943 through [[Joseph Bernstein]] confidential BEW reports including a joint British-American evaluation of the military situation on the [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Soviet-German front]], as well as reports on American strength in the [[China Burma India Theater of World War II|China theatre]] of operations, a report by the Chinese embassy in Washington D.C. on trade between Chinese nationals in Japan and Chinese mainland industrialists, a report by an American consul on conditions in Vladivostok, a report on [[Chiang Kai-shek]]'s war with the [[CCP]], and internal United States government discussions regarding direct contact with [[Maoist]] forces to arrange establishment of air bases in territories fallen under their control. <ref>''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America,'' John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Yale University Press, 1999. </ref>
When, on June 15 1943, [[Owen Lattimore]] instructed [[Joseph Barnes]]<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,791284,00.html ''Tongue-Tied''], [[Time magazine]], Feb. 07, 1944.</ref> to replace the non-Communist Chinese of the [[Office of War Information]] (OWI) with Communists, OWI did so. On July 14 Bisson, in the [[Institute of Pacific Relations]] publication, ''Far Eastern Survey'', referred to Moaist forces as the "democratic China." The disinformation was widely repeated among journalists and academics. In July and August 1943, the Chinese Communist forces -- in the midst of the war -- joined with the [[Japanese ]] armies to inflict a serious defeat on the [[Kuomintang]] troops allied with the United States. <ref>[http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/yaltabet.html ''The Yalta Betrayal''], Felix Wittmer, Claxton Printers, 1953, pg. 36.</ref>
In a transmission from Soviet Military Intelligence (GRU) in New York to Moscow, a Venona decryption reads: