Most of Chaitin's ideas on
AIT were already known and published by
Andrey Kolmogorov (Soviet mathematician) (Андре́й Колмого́ров) whose groundbreaking work in information theory was in Russian and, at the time, not widely published outside the U.S.S.R.
Even work that was published outside of the U.S.S.R. underwent censorship which obscured some of the meaning of the work.