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MI5 spied on Charlie Chaplin after FBI asked for help to banish him from US | UK news | guardian.co.uk

"Chaplin has given funds to communist front organisations … He has been involved in paternity and abortion cases," an MI5 liaison officer in Washington warned in October 1952.MI5 noted that a decade earlier Chaplin had told the Los Angeles branch of the National Council of American Soviet Friendship: "There is a great deal of good in communism. We can use the good and segregate the bad."

via MI5 spied on Charlie Chaplin after FBI asked for help to banish him from US | UK news | guardian.co.uk.