About Cedric Belfrage
Cedric Henning Belfrage was an English film critic, journalist, writer and political activist. He is best remembered as a co-founder of the radical US weekly National Guardian. Later Belfrage was referenced as a Soviet agent in the US intelligence Venona project, although it appears he had been working for British Security Co-ordination as a double agent. While still a Cambridge student, Belfrage began a writing career as a film critic, with a first article in Kinematograph Weekly in 1924. In 1948, Belfrage co-founded, together with James Aronson and John T. Belfrage returned to the US for the first time in 1973, touring around the country with to promote his new book, The American Inquisition.
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