Arthur Ransome was a very well-known author of children's books, best known for his series beginning with Swallows and Amazons. He was also a spy for British intelligence and a close enough friend to the Bolshevik leadership that he married Leon Trotsky's secretary. These security service files show how for years he was spied on as a suspected Communist sympathiser, even while he was providing information to British military intelligence.(Read more...)
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