Operation Solo: The Fbi's Man in the Kremlin
by John Barron

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Throughout the book, Barron stresses that Operation SOLO had been a very secret FBI operation, and very few people in the FBI, let alone others outside the FBI, such as CIA operatives knew about the project. This secrecy was what enabled Operation SOLO to continue for decades undiscovered. But with so few people aware of its existence, it's hard now to develop an objective measure of how important Childs' information really was. A few weeks ago, I asked a former CIA operative, who had been a Soviet specialist very high up in the Agency during the Cold War, about Operation SOLO- -was he aware of it? How significant was it? The CIA operative told me that he had never heard of Operation SOLO, and doubted that it amounted to much at all since it was connected with FBI. Such a reaction is just what one would expect, given Barron's description of the secrecy of the project. But it still leaves me with the nagging question, just how significant were Childs' efforts after all? Is there any way to get an answer to this beyond taking Barron's word?

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