 Richard Gott, who in 1994 had resigned as literary editor of "The Guardian" after admitting that he had accepted travel expenses from the KGB in an unrelated case, referred to Orwell's list as only a "small surprise".The journalist and activist Norman Ian MacKenzie, who was on the list, noted "Tubercular people often could get very strange towards the end.I'm an Orwell man, I agreed with him on the Soviet Union, but he went partly ga-ga I think.