‘ It’s often apparent from the files that the things these writers actually wrote went unread by those investigating them’

Guardian:

Cecil Day-Lewis (…) was positively disappointed that the “guardians of Cheltenham” didn’t seem to consider him the threat to the established order that he considered himself.

In fact, tasked by MI5 to look into him because he’d sent a fiver to the CPGB, the local police were able to establish nothing more subversive than that he “seldom wears a hat…”