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Monday, July 14, 2003

End of Secrecy Orwell's list of 'crypto-communists' to be released

The government has agreed to strip the final shred of secrecy from the leftwing author George Orwell's famous 54-year-old list of "crypto-communists" and put it in the public domain.
The Foreign Office is expected shortly to disgorge its copy of the document - until now held back as too sensitive. The public record office in Kew hopes to make the file openly available this summer.

· Timothy Garton Ash [Guardian of His Story]