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Feminist, writer, H.G. Wells’ lover during both his Stalin and Mussolini flirtations, Rebecca West was visited by Britain’s MI5 when they were nosing around British threads of Whittaker Chambers’ espionage charges
Documents on the encounter have just been released by the British National Archives, and the saucy scribbler does not disappoint.
As the London Review of Books blog alerted us, West blew past what the spooks cared about to get to her personal obsessions: