Hemingway was a KGB agent?
A new book claims that Nobel Prize-winning American novelist Ernest Hemingway agreed to serve as a spy for the Soviet intelligence agency KGB in the 1940s.
“Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America” was co-authored by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev. It is based on notes that Vassiliev, a former KGB officer, made when he was given access in the 1990s to Stalin-era intelligence archives in Moscow, Newsmax reports.
Hemingway’s KGB file reveals that he was recruited in 1941, given the code name Argo, and “repeatedly expressed his desire and willingness to help us” when he met Soviet agents in Cuba and London in the 1940s. But the file says he failed to “give us any political information,” and contacts with the KGB has ceased by the end of the decade.
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