> I would suspect that Yevgeny Zamyatin would also have been privy to the plan. Aldous Huxley too.

No, they were not part of any plan if there was ever one. Yevgeny Zamyatin and Aldous Huxley were participants and observers of civil war, revolution, and its subsequent corruption by totalitarians. Their books are a testimony to that and a warning.

Ah yes, a dissident who couldn't get published in his own country was obviously included.

And - to go further still - Orwell, Huxley (and perhaps Zamyatin) fulfil the 'Goldstein' role, IRL.