Who Paid the Piper?
by Frances Stonor Saunders · first published 1905
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"In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders presents for the first time the shocking evidence that the CIA infiltrated every niche of the cultural sphere during the postwar years. In a book that draws together recently declassified documents and exclusive interviews, the author narrates the extraordinary story of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West became instruments of the American government. The CIA's front organizations and the philanthropic foundations that channeled its money also organized conferences, founded magazines,
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…Tooth[0] is an interesting novel. It's about how the (British) MI5 involves itself with artists to promote anti-communism in the 70's. The novel opens itself up to to discovering Francis Stonor Saunders' "Who Paid the Piper"[1] which is a book about how the CIA used literature as a cultural weapon against the Soviet Union, also very interesting. Ian McEwen can take us to all sorts of strange places. I'm not a big reader…
on “Ian McEwan and the Mess of Living” ↗Ian McEwan's "Sweet Tooth" [0] was partly inspired by the CIA's secret funding of Encounter magazine [1]. He also makes reference to to Frances Stonor Saunders' [2] book "Who Paid the Piper?: CIA and the Cultural Cold War" [3] which is about CIA funded cultural manipulation (on my bookshelf, but only dipped into it a bit). Fascinating stuff. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Tooth_(novel)…
on “During Cold War, CIA used ‘Doctor Zhivago’ as a tool to undermine Soviet Union” ↗…a remove of two or three degrees from the artists and art exhibitions—sometimes even more—so that they could not be linked to any furtive governmental bankrolling." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Paid_the_Piper%3F
on “The Debt That Apple Owes to the CIA” ↗Inspired by other posts here, the interesting discovery for me was "Who Paid the Piper?" http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/1862073279/ From the comments: "the financing by the US government of a secret cultural propaganda programme under the cover of `philantropic' foundations"…
on “During Cold War, CIA used ‘Doctor Zhivago’ as a tool to undermine Soviet Union” ↗And art (esp. abstract expressionism): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Paid_the_Piper%253F
on “The Grapes of Wrath was banned in the USSR because showed poor people had cars” ↗