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Hemingway revealed as failed KGB spy

Notes from Stalin-era intelligence archives show 'agent Argo' as a willing recruit in 1941

Up till now, this has been a notably cheerful year for admirers of Ernest Hemingway – a surprisingly diverse set of people who range from Michael Palin to Elmore Leonard. Almost every month has brought good news: a planned Hemingway biopic; a new, improved version of his memoir, A Moveable Feast; the… » Full Story on The Guardian

McCarthy was right. And as usual, the Liberals were wrong, and worse-- enabled Soviet infiltration of our government. Here's yet more proof. Look up the Venona Files. KGB docs released after the fall of the Berlin Wall. McCarthy was 100% spot on. Yet sadly he's still vilified by the American leftwing as a dangerous witch hunter. Well no wonder-- he was hunting THEM.

posted Jul 9, 2009 |
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Hemingway was a drunk. A decent novelist, but just a drunk in the end.

posted Jul 10, 2009 |
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Just wait until the day it comes out that enemy combatant Obama is an Al Qaeda spy/infiltrator. Boy will you sheep have some apologizing to do to the rest of America.

posted Jul 10, 2009 |
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Well, maybe kids will no longer have to suffer reading Old Man and the Sea. As an author he ranks right up there with the jounalist/hack C. Dickens, and why say in one short sentence when you can say it in 2 that take up half the page J..F Cooper.

posted Jul 10, 2009 |
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But, the history books still tell students McCarthy was a right wingnut and completely evil - and preach all the good about the Commies.

posted Jul 10, 2009 |
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I remember reading "A Moveable Feast". Something about taking a dump in a hole in the floor, catching pigeons for supper, and trying to write a book in some french version of the Waffle House. Who would ever think he was a failed Commie Rat. LA VIE BOHEME!!!! ;{

posted Jul 10, 2009 |
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I should have known...that beard looks just like Karl Marx's!

posted Jul 10, 2009 |
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Ben

I have a hard time buying this one. Hemingway's personality and this portrayal of him as a communist just don't match up.
I have no doubt he was approached. And now they say, "Yeah. He was one of us but he never did anything for us." rings a little strange too.

posted Jul 10, 2009 |
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A man who lived and loved a rich, full life, until it overwhelmed him; Hemingway's gift was putting the human experience into words.
Short, beautifully written prose, in his inimitable style.

The above comments were written by people whose appreciation of literature ends with taking a dump while reading "Field and Stream."

posted Jul 10, 2009 |
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I saw this article earlier, I just didn't believe it!!!

posted Jul 10, 2009 |
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Damn, I still he's the best of his era. Drunk or not, the very best.

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