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FBI β€’ 2011

SOLO Part 19

Operation SOLO was a long-running FBI program to infiltrate the Communist Party of the United States and gather intelligence about its relationship to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, China, and other communist nations. It officially began in 1958 and ended in 1977, although Morris and Jack Childs, two of the principal agents in the operation, had been involved with the Bureau for several years prior. The files range from March 1958 to April 1966...
Declassified
Foreign Counterintelligence

Timeline

Created
Jul 25, 2011
Released
Jul 25, 2011
Publication
Jul 25, 2011
Case number
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Metadata

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Case #

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Document Type

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Collection

SOLO

Release Decision

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Original Classification

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Pages

42 pages

File Size

β€” PDF document, 1,689 kB (1,730,327 bytes)