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I remember a link posted a couple of weeks ago about Huxley's connection with the secret services, so I guess you are referring to that?

1984 and Animal Farm were based on hard facts about life in the Soviet Union and made communists very upset at the time (and still do). Even publishing them wasn't that easy as nobody in GB wanted to agitate the communists and USSR.