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Sam Wanamaker 'monitored by MI5'

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Distinguished American actor and producer Sam Wanamaker was watched by MI5 for several years for his alleged communist sympathies, it has emerged. Files released by the National Archives show Mr Wanamaker would have been interned had the UK been attacked in the mid-1950s. Correspondent Michael Buchanan has been looking at the files.

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