John Barron (journalist)

John Daniel Barron ( born January 26, 1930 in Wichita Falls, Texas; † 24 February 2005 in Virginia) was an American journalist who exposed the KGB spy organization of the Communist Soviet Union.

In 1957 he started at the newspaper Washington Star as a reporter. From 1965 worked in the Washington office of Reader 's Digest, and wrote more than 100 stories to a wide variety of topics. He was a senior editor there soon.

His book "KGB ", which appeared in German in 1973, contains not only a detailed description of the activities of Soviet intelligence also the text of the secret KGB textbook and a list of Soviet citizens involved in intelligence jobs abroad.

In 1980 he reported on the outstanding issues surrounding the drowning of 29 -year-old Mary Jo Kopechne at Chappaquiddick secretary, who worked as a campaign worker for Edward Kennedy.

Publications

• KGB. Work and organization of the Soviet secret in East and West, joke -Verlag, Bern and Munich 1973. With a contribution by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
• The heir. Career of a KGB agent. Reader 's Digest in 1981.

• Journalist (United States)
• Americans
• Born in 1930
• Died in 2005
• Man