Rene sez, "MI5 monitored socialist writer George Orwell for more than two decades, but did not believe he was a mainstream communist, records have revealed."
The Special Branch report said: "This man has advanced communist views and several of his Indian friends say that they have often seen him at communist meetings.
"He dresses in a bohemian fashion both at his office and in his leisure hours."
The MI5 officer rang the inspector in charge of the sergeant who wrote the report, to question what it meant.
From the call it emerged that Orwell – referred to in the documents by his real name Eric Blair – was thought to be an "unorthodox communist" who did not agree fully with Communist Party views.
(Thanks, Rene!
