Newly released and redacted British intelligence files refer to author from early 1940s to long after her break from communist party in 1956
MI5 targeted the Nobel prize-winning author Doris Lessing for 20 years, listening to her phone conversations, opening her mail and closely monitoring her movements, previously top secret files reveal. The files show the extent to which MI5, helped by the Met police special branch, spied on the writer, her friends and associates, long after she abandoned communism, disgusted by the crushing of the Hungarian uprising in 1956.
MI5 was concerned about her continuing fierce opposition to colonialism, the files, released at the National Archives on Friday, make clear.
Her flat is visited by persons of various nationality … It is possible that the flat is being used for immoral purposes
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Her communist sympathies have been fanned almost to the point of fanaticism owing to her upbringing in Rhodesia
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