In his last days Orwell was visited in hospital by a selection of friends who were all involved in a covert CIA project: CCF, the Congress for Cultural Freedom. Its aim was to provide a counterweight to Marxist intellectual and cultural supremacy in Europe. The project, in which the IRD (Information Research Department) also played a part, would lead to the setting up of Encounter magazine and the CIA’s acquisition of the film rights to Orwell’s "Animal Farm."
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