Hemingway was just another of those lousy writers promoted by the Leftist dominated critics of the 20s and 30s because he was politically reliable. He cut his teeth on collaboration with the Communists during the Spanish Civil War. He was a liar, a charlatan, a latent homosexual, and a poseur. I am not at all surprised he was willing to serve Stalin as a spy, effective or not.
Interesting.
I will have to start reviewing Hemingway all over again from a different point of view.
Eyes opened are better that eyes continued closed.
His best writing was done in the 1920s well before the Spanish Civil War and the existence of the KGB (or NKVD for that matter). If you look at the early critical writing about him it was mostly regarding the new approach to English prose.