- John Barron (journalist)
John Barron (1930,
Wichita Falls ,Texas –February 24 ,2005 ) was an American journalist who exposedCommunist activities.Barron, son of a
Methodist minister, graduated from theUniversity of Missouri and studied Russian at theUnited States Naval Postgraduate School inMonterey, California .In 1965 Barron joined the Washington bureau of "
Reader's Digest ". There he wrote more than 100 stories on a wide variety of subjects—notably a 1980 story concerning unanswered questions surrounding the drowning death ofMary Jo Kopechne at Chappaquiddick, which involvedTed Kennedy .Books
*"KGB: The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents". New York: Reader's Digest Press, 1974. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1974. [pb] New York: Bantam Books, 1974.
*"Murder of a Gentle Land" with Anthony Paul
*"MiG Pilot: the Final Escape of Lt. Belenko", New York: Reader's Digest Press, 1980, ISBN 0-380-53868-7. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980. [pb] New York: Avon Books, 1981.
*"KGB Today: The Hidden Hand". New York: Reader's Digest Press, 1983. New York: Berkley Books, 1985.
*"Breaking the Ring: The Bizarre Case of the Walker Family Spy Ring". Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
*"Operation SOLO: The FBI's Man in the Kremlin", Washington, DC: Regnery, 1996, ISBN 0-89526-429-3Quotations
Matt Schudel in The Washington Post:
Susan Sontag in 1982:
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