Comrade Ogilvy (1984)

Comrade Ogilvy is an imaginary character in the novel 1984. He is created by main character Winston Smith, an employee of the Ministry of Truth, to replace Comrade Withers, a prominent Inner Party member who was made an unperson, in a newspaper article.

Comrade Ogilvy supposedly lived a patriotic and virtuous life, from denouncing his uncle to the Thought Police at eleven, to designing a hand grenade that killed 31 prisoners of war in its first trial run, to jumping from his helicopter into the Indian Ocean to avoid capture and interrogation.

Comrade Ogilvy displays how easy it is for a member of The Party to be pulled from thin air, and how determined The Party is to keep unpersons from the media.