19-10-2009, 07:35 PM
Hallam Tennyson. The Haunted Mind: An Autobiography (London: Andre Deutsch, 1984), p.150:
Quote:“Christmas Trees were the symbols put on the personal files of those who were considered to be a security risk. There was a Christmas Tree on the file of someone who had been friendly with a nationalist leader in Malaya, and another on the file of someone who had a close relative living in East Germany. These people could not be promoted beyond a certain grade…Christmas Trees were a lethal infection and their possessors were addressed by their bosses as if through a gauze mask.”