According to declassified documents quoted in The Guardian, the FBI had a 2,000-page file on Charlie Chaplin and reached out across the pond for help spying on him. In 1952, J. Edgar Hoover contacted the UK's MI5 security agency because he was concerned that Chaplin was a Communist sympathizer; meanwhile, the Brits wondered if the actor was actually - quelle horreur! - French.
Was Charlie Chaplin a Frenchman? MI5 files reveal he may have been born near Paris... or even in Russia!
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102325/Was-Charlie-Chaplin-Frenchman-MI5-files-reveal-born-near-Paris--Russia.html#ixzz1mmqlRzQe
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