MI5 verdict on Doris Lessing

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

 Attractive, dangerous and ruthless: MI5's verdict on 'Comrade' Doris Lessing in newly declassified files from the 1950s

Doris Lessing, who was one of the most admired and respected novelists of the 20th century, may also have been a communist spy, according to...