FBI Files on Operation Solo

This is an incomplete set of documents from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation file on "Operation Solo"-- the agency's use of Morris and Jack Childs as high-level informants working within Communist Party USA. The file number is 100-HQ-428091. For more information about Operation Solo, see the National Security Archive's summary of these files by historian Tim Weiner: http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB375/ These documents were downloaded directly from the FBI's web site here: http://vault.fbi.gov/solo . The file names have been changed to create a sequence based on serial (ie document) number, since pdf file names on the FBI web site do not always correlate to file's section number. The collection is incomplete, and encompasses serials 1-1988, 3076-3154, 3188-6032, and 6171-7144, along with an assortment of enclosures behind files (EBFs), from 1958-68. Within that sequence, some serials or parts of serials have been withheld in their entirety either because they remain classified or because the FBI sent them to another government agency to declassify. For FBI files on Morris Childs and other CPUSA members, which can be read differently in light of the release of Operation Solo files, see the CPUSA series in the Ernie Lazar collection of FBI files here: http://archive.org/details/ernie1241_cpusa