Extension of Operators from Weak∗^*-closed Subspaces of ℓ1\ell_1

It is proved that every operator from a weak$^*$-closed subspace of $\ell_1$ into a space $C(K)$ of continuous functions on a compact Hausdorff space $K$ can be extended to an operator from $\ell_1$ to $C(K)$