Moreover, in "The Venona Secrets: The Definitive Exposé of Soviet Espionage in America" (2000), Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel re-published the allegation that the American journalist I. F. Stone was the Soviet secret agent BLIN. As evidence, they cited Stone's statement, in a column (November 11, 1951) that responded to "New York Herald Tribune" reportage about his left wing sympathies, and that he would be unsurprised to read in that newspaper, "that I was smuggled in from Pinsk, in a carton of blintzes". That Stone's use of the word "blintzes" (pancakes) betrayed his knowledge of the word BLIN, his code name as a Soviet secret agent.