Suicide Bombers

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat May 11 12:49:34 PDT 2002


Peter K. wrote:


> >Or Frances Stonor Saunders' The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the
>>World of Arts and Letters:
>>
>>>But Orwell himself was not entirely innocent of such Cold War
>>>manipulations. He had, after all, handed over a list of suspected
>>>fellow travellers to the Information Research Department in 1949, a
>>>list which exposed thirty-five people as fellow
>
>Like the Dennis Miller attribution (which anyone familiar with Miller
>could have instantly known was not him),

Why not? It sounded like an arrogant prick trying to be "funny," which fits him perfectly.


> this should probably be fact checked.
>As I understand it, Orwell was writing publicly about these fellow travellers.

Fact check what? That Saunders got her facts straight? That I scanned it from her book? Just what are you taking exception to here?

Doug



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