Changing of a Single Letter

May 7, 2003 Topic: Security Tags: BusinessIran-Contra Affair

Changing of a Single Letter

One of Winston Smith's tasks as an employee of the Ministry of Truth in Orwell's 1984 was making the appropriate changes to the news reports when " Oceania " changed its current foe.

 

Nikolas K. Gvosdev is editor of In the National Interest.