Marking the Sparrow's Fall - John Barron, Cold Warrior

John J. Miller, in today's National Review Online:

"Despite this accomplishment [revealing the Chappaquiddick scandal], Barron was best known for reporting on one of his first loves: espionage. His most important work for Reader’s Digest involved exposing the evils of Communism in general and the schemes of the KGB in particular. His first book, KGB: The Secret Work of Soviet Agents, prompted the Soviet spy bureau to issue at least 370 damage assessments and other reports. Moscow was so rattled by his journalism, in fact, that it sponsored a smear campaign against him."

Now that's a reporter. When you make the Soviet Union consider you a threat...

R.I.P.