'George Orwell, the author who coined the phrase "Big Brother Is Watching You", was himself the subject of intense surveillance by the secret services, documents released on Tuesday disclose.
'The creator of Nineteen Eighty-Four, which envisages a day when every person's movements are scrutinised by a totalitarian state, was closely monitored amid concerns that he was a prominent member of the communist movement.
'Every aspect of his life came under the microscope during the 1930s and 40s. The scrutiny even extended to his wife Eileen, who had to be vetted before she was allowed to take up a post with the Ministry of Food.' (Telegraph article).
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