Researchers have been requesting these documents for years, and with good reason. Even more SOLO debriefings and associated memos – upwards of 45 volumes and thousands of pages – emerged in January 2012.
The FBI's first debriefings of Morris Childs were declassified in August 2011 in time for inclusion in the book Enemies. The operation, codenamed SOLO, that the FBI built on his work (and that of his brother, Jack) posed great risks and the promise of greater rewards. He was the first and perhaps the only American spy to penetrate the Soviet Union and Communist China at the highest levels during the Cold War, including having face-to-face conversations with Nikita Khrushchev, Mao Zedong and others in a red-ribbon cast of Communist leaders. "SOLO" BY TIM WEINERįBI Director J, Edgar Hoover's most valued secret agent was a naturalized citizen of Russian/Ukrainian/Jewish origins named Morris Childs. Highlights from the massive SOLO files (which total more than 6,941 pages in 45 volumes declassified in August 2011 and January 2012) appear on the National Security Archive's Web site today at together with an overview by Tim Weiner and a new search function, powered by the Archive's partnership with DocumentCloud, that enables full-text search of the entire SOLO file (instead of the 45 separate PDF searches required by the FBI's Vault publication at ).įor more on Enemies, see last night's broadcast of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, featuring Tim Weiner, and the reviews by The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, and The Washington Post. Edgar Hoover starting in 1958 about face-to-face meetings with top Soviet and Chinese Communist leaders including Mao and Khrushchev, while couriering Soviet funds for the American Communist Party, according to newly declassified FBI files cited in the new book by Tim Weiner, Enemies: A History of the FBI (New York: Random House, 2012). Washington, D.C., Ap– The "FBI's most valued secret agents of the Cold War," brothers Morris and Jack Childs, together codenamed SOLO, reported back to J. Tim Weiner on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, April 9, 2012.
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