MI5 spied on novelist Doris Lessing for decades, files disclose

Documents released for the first time by the National Archives show how the Nobel Prize-winning writer was put under surveillance and subjected to slurs of "immoral" behaviour by her neighbours

British novelist Doris Lessing in 2007, when she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature Photo: REUTERS

By David Barrett, Home Affairs Correspondent

The Telegraph  21 Aug 2015

Doris Lessing, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, was spied on by the Security Service for more than 20 years because of her Communist politics, newly declassified files have disclosed.

MI5 documents, made public for the first time, show agents kept a close eye on Lessing’s activities from 1943 until 1964 as she played a key role in the Left literary scene in London. 
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