Ever since the revelation that the radical author George Orwell had provided names of possible communists to British intelligence, liberal revisionists have claimed he was a crypto-racist and a British spy. Any honest examination of the available documents shows that not only is this untrue, Orwell was the subject of surveillance and investigation by British intelligence for over a decade.
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SpyCulture.com is written and produced by Tom Secker.
Tom is a British-based journalist, author, and podcaster. His specialities include the security services, Hollywood, propaganda, censorship and the history of terrorism. Tom’s writing and research has appeared in The Mirror, The Express, RT, Salon, Newsweek, The Atlantic, The Independent, Harpers, Insurge Intelligence, Shadowproof, TechDirt and elsewhere.
Tom lives on the Lancashire coast and is a proud Northerner. His favourite spy is Eddie Chapman a.k.a. Agent Zigzag. He may or may not sleep with a gun under his pillow.
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