MacDiarmid was Soviet secret agent (or so MI5 reckoned)

The Scotsman | September 5, 2005| | Copyright

HUGH MacDiarmid, Scotland's greatest 20th century poet, was the subject of covert surveillance by MI5, who considered the author of A Drunk Man Looks At The Thistle to be a potential threat to the security of the British nation.

Declassified files from MI5 and Special Branch, released to the National Archives in Kew, reveal that there was a debate among the authorities over whether MacDiarmid, who died in 1978, should be arrested.

The files, which cover the years 1932 to 1943, tell how MacDiarmid, whose real name was Christopher Murray Grieve, was closely monitored by the security services ...

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