SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: George Orwell handed over to British and American intelligence services in 1949 a list containing 38 names of famous individuals "suspected of sympathizing with communism," among them Charlie Chaplin.

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Translated from Spanish

George Orwell handed over to British and American intelligence services in 1949 a list containing 38 names of famous individuals "suspected of sympathizing with communism," among them Charlie Chaplin.

Orwell had been acting since the mid-1940s as a paranoid informant, jotting down in a notebook all sorts of communist journalists, activists, writers, and artists whom he considered suspect for having "pro-Soviet sympathies" and deserving of boycott for not being Trotskyists like him; he ended up noting down more than 135 communist activists.

In 1949, he finally delivered 38 "suspects of being communists" to Western intelligence services while he was in the hospital, handing them over name by name to Celia Kirwan, a British spy, so that they could be pursued and have their lives destroyed—not only through imprisonments as in the U.S., but also by preventing them from being hired in their jobs.

In addition to Charlie Chaplin, the list included figures such as the writer George Bernard Shaw, the historian E.H. Carr, the biographer Isaac Deutscher, or the actor Michael Redgrave.

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Translated from Spanish

On September 19, 1952, the McCarthyist government of the United States banned the legendary comedian actor Charlie Chaplin from entering the country, condemning him to exile and seeking to try him for "sympathizing with communism."

Charlie Chaplin left New York in those