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Author Saunders, Frances Stonor.

Title The cultural cold war : the CIA and the world of arts and letters / Frances Stonor Saunders
Published New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., 2000

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Description ix, 509 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Exquisite Corpse -- 2. Destiny's Elect -- 3. Marxists at the Waldorf -- 4. Democracy's Deminform -- 5. Crusading's the Idea -- 6. 'Operation Congress' -- 7. Candy -- 8. Cette Fete Americaine -- 9. The Consortium -- 10. The Truth Campaign -- 11. The New Consensus -- 12. Magazine 'X' -- 13. The Holy Willies -- 14. Music and Truth, ma non troppo -- 15. Ransom's Boys -- 16. Yanqui Doodles -- 17. The Guardian Furies -- 18. When Shrimps Learn to Whistle -- 19. Achilles' Heel -- 20. Cultural NATO -- 21. Caesar of Argentina -- 22. Pen Friends -- 23. Literary Bay of Pigs -- 24. View from the Ramparts -- 25. That Sinking Feeling -- 26. A Bad Bargain
Summary "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, ran congresses, mounted exhibitions, arranged concerts, and flew symphony orchestras around the world." "Many of the period's foremost intellectuals and artists appear in the book: Isaiah Berlin, Clement Greenberg, Sidney Hook, Arthur Koestler, Irving Kristol, Robert Lowell, Henry Luce, Andre Malraux, Mary McCarthy, Reinhold Neibuhr, George Orwell, Jackson Pollock, Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Stephen Spender, among others. While many were unwitting participants in the CIA's cultural operation, others were willing collaborators."--BOOK JACKET
Analysis Central Intelligence Agency
Arts
Arts policy
United States
Cold War
Propaganda
Liberty
Overseas item
Notes Originally published: Who paid the piper? London : Granta Books, 1999
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [476]-480) and index
Subject United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- Influence.
Arts, American -- 20th century.
Politics and culture -- United States.
Arts -- Political aspects -- United States.
Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States.
Freedom and art -- Political aspects -- United States.
SUBJECT United States -- Cultural policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100001
LC no. 99086681
ISBN 156584596X
Other Titles Who paid the piper?
Who paid the piper?