Beat the Devil.

The article focuses on Ignazio Silone, who turned out to be an informer at a considerably greater level of infamy than that of George Orwell, who passed along to the British secret police names of people he suspected of being Communists or fellow travelers. Like Orwell, Silone has been hailed down years as a moral saint, a man who fought Fascism first as a Communist organizer, then as someone who quit the Communist movement long before the great purges of late thirties, writing the enormously influential anti-Fascist novels "Fontamara" and "Bread and Wine." The truly repugnant details of Silone's years as an informer for Fascist prime minister of Italy Benito Mussolini's secret police began to surface in 1996, when a young historian and biographer of Silone, Darlo Biocca, aired documents he had discovered separately.