A new 20-volume edition of George Orwell's works reveals that the writer informed on Charlie Chaplin, George Bernard Shaw, poets C. Day-Lewis and Stephen Spender and novelist J.B. Priestley as "crypto-communists."
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Orwell gave an alphabetical list of 130 names to an arm of the British Foreign Office, shortly before he died of tuberculosis in 1950.- Leah Garchik