This is a link where you can download Orwell's FBI file; he was not investigated
by the FBI and his file began when his US publisher wrote to Hoover asking for
his endorsement, a 'blurb' I guess of sorts, to which Hoover rather touchingly
replies that he doesn't lend his name to commercial ventures and then a longer
report from the House Hearing on Un-American activities in which the
publication details and number of books sold seems oddly torqued for the
venue under which it's occurring. There are pages that are mostly blacked out,
too, many of them, but that too is strange to look at,
http://orwell.ru/a_life/USA/e/e_fbi.htm
best,
Rebecca
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