Briton spied on Orwell in Spain
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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/RollingNightSky on 2024-04-19 03:44:58.

Original Title: TIL that George Orwell was spied on by a Soviet secret agent named Hugh O’Donnell, code-name O’Brien. In a coincidence, (book spoiler) Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four to have a spy named O’Brien betray the main character, without knowing about the Soviet spy codenamed “O’Brien.”