Before the big book agents and materials Buffeting Hemingway was “KGB spies”
In 1954, the American writer Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961 years) representative of their “Old Man and the Sea,” won the Nobel Prize for literature in one fell swoop. Little-known is that he has had his KGB spy in the former Soviet Union. The mid-90’s last century, the former KGB officer Alexander Vasiliev intelligence agencies are allowed to enter the Soviet archives. He surprised to discover that even in Hemingway’s famous 42-year-old in 1941 when he was recruited as a KGB spy, and he spent a few months time, these secret documents will be copied down.
Vasiliyev after resettlement in the United Kingdom, with two American historian John Hans and share their secretscopy of the notes, they co-authored a new book, “Spy: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in the United States” in the first times the exposure period of Hemingway’s “dark past.” The book in May 2009 published by Yale University Press recently issued in the United Kingdom.
On Hemingway’s “dark past”, the book quoted the former Soviet Union’s secret intelligence documents: “The January 8, 1941, a” death knell for whom Ming “(Annotation: Hemingway published in 1940 in the Spanish Civil War for the background of the novel anti-fascism) was sent to Moscow. National Security Office (formerly the KGB) to Hemingway’s code-named “Argo.” in 1941 ‘Argo’ in the left to be absorbed before the Chinese came … … in China did not get in touch with him. ”
The book mentioned that by the end of 1941, “Center” in New York wrote a letter to the “Maxim” need “as he (Hemingway) to look for exit opportunities for the country we are interested.” 1943-1945 years, Hemingway and the Soviet intelligence agents have been contacted several times. The purpose of these meetings is to “study the people, to see whether he is capable of work for us.” However, “As we were recalled home, and ‘Argo’ no further contact can be maintained.” “Argo” transmission has never been “any political intelligence.”
In 1950 the KGB had sent information about the news of Hemingway and his political leanings. Get back is: “It is said that he seemed to support the Trotskyites, and attacked the Soviet Union in the article.” Hemingway’s relationship with the KGB to whether this is the end, is not known. Vasiliyev book did not give the answer, because the notebook is only credited to the early 50th century
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