KGB Today: The Hidden Hand
New York: Reader's Digest Press, 1983. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 489, references, index. More
New York: Reader's Digest Press, 1983. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 489, references, index. More
Washington, DC: Regnery Pub. c1996. First Printing. 24 cm, 368, illus., index, slight sticker residue to DJ, minor soiling to bottom edge. More
Washington DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1996. Fourth printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xvi, 368 pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Appendices. Index. Cover has some wear and corner curling. Some yellow highlighting observed. Signed by Dan B. Stillman inside front cover. Stillman was a senior member of the Los Alamos National Laboratory's intelligence analysis organization and author of Inside China's Nuclear Weapons Program. John Daniel Barron (January 26, 1930 – February 24, 2005) was an American journalist and investigative writer. He wrote several books about Soviet espionage via the KGB and other agencies. He graduated from the University of Missouri and studied Russian at the United States Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He served in Berlin as a naval intelligence officer. In 1957, he joined the Washington Star as an investigative reporter. In 1964, he and fellow Star reporter Paul B. Hope were given the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award "for their work on the Baker case." Barron published KGB: The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents. In 1996, Barron published a book detailing the saga of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Operation SOLO, involving the infiltration of the top leadership of the Communist Party, USA by the FBI's secret informant Morris Childs. From 1958 through 1977, Childs traveled to Moscow over 50 times, acting as a courier between the CPUSA and Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Childs helped with the transfer of over $28 million from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to the Communist Party of the US to help fund its activities, with each transaction reported to his FBI handlers. More