Overview of the John Barron papers
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Overview of the John Barron papers
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Title: John Barron papers
Dates: 1927-1996.
Collection Number: 98020
Creator: Barron, John, 1930-
Collection Size:
2 manuscript boxes
(0.8 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, reports, notes, speeches and writings, and photographs, relating to Morris Childs, Federal Bureau of Investigation
informant within the Communist Party of the United States; Federal Bureau of Investigation surveillance of the Communist Party;
and the relationship between the Communist Party of the United States and the Soviet communist party and government. Includes
some papers of Morris Childs. Used as research material for the book by John Barron, Operation Solo: The FBI's Man in the
Kremlin
(Washington, D.C., 1996). Also available on microfilm (2 reels).
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
English
Collection is open for research.
Access to sound recordings, video recordings, or motion picture material requires at least two weeks advance notice. Please
contact the Hoover Institution Archives for further information.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
[Identification of item], John Barron papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1998.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at
http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes
listed in this finding aid.
American journalist and author.
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence, reports, notes, speeches and writings, and photographs, relating to Morris Childs, Federal Bureau of Investigation
informant within the Communist Party of the United States; Federal Bureau of Investigation surveillance of the Communist Party;
and the relationship between the Communist Party of the United States and the Soviet communist party and government. Includes
some papers of Morris Childs. Used as research material for the book by John Barron, Operation Solo: The FBI's Man in the
Kremlin
(Washington, D.C., 1996). Also available on microfilm (2 reels).
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Communism United States.
Communist Party of the United States of America.
Internal security United States.
Kommunisticheskaia partiia Sovetskogo Soiuza.
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Childs, Morris, 1902-1991.