Friday, 17 February 2012
Charlie Chaplin-a Communist?
Charlie Chaplin has hit the news today, years after his death due to the release of MI5 and FBI documents. It turns out that during the 'red scare' in the US in the 1950s Chaplin was investigated by the FBI to see if he had ever been a member of a communist party. The result was that he hadn't but did have left wing sympathies. What baffled the FBI and MI5 at the time, however, was not Chaplin's politics but his mysterious birth. Neither agency could find a birth certificate for Chaplin! Very bizarre. For more on this see the BBC website http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17072165
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The FBI was insanely paranoid. Had Chaplin ever been a member of a communist party? What were his political goals? Who did he consort with?
Of course he had left wing sympathies - every thinking person in the world did, after the right wing horrors of the Spanish Civil War and WW2.
I think you're absolutely right! I would love to have a look through some secret FBI files and read about some of their paranoia! I would be interested to read documents held by the secret services on ways they tried to assassinate Castro! Explosive cigars lol
Excellent read, I just passed this onto a friend who was doing a little research on that. And he actually bought me lunch because I found it for him smile So let me rephrase that: Thank you for lunch! “We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God’s.”
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