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ESL / EFL Lesson Activity- Charlie Chaplin

New information that the British government spied silent comedy Charlie Chaplin. America's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) asked Britain’s spy MI5 to look into Chaplin’s background. The USA the English comedian was a communist. This was at the of the Cold War when between America and the Soviet Union were very . The FBI wanted MI5 to help it get Chaplin from or living in the USA.

Charlie Chaplin could not produce his certificate. This made the FBI think he was some of spy. They suggested his name was Israel Thornstein and that he was in France. The Bureau also said Chaplin donations to the American Communist Party. MI5 found evidence that of these things were . Despite this, the USA asked Chaplin to the country in 1953. He lived in Switzerland instead, where he died in 1977 at the of 88.