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During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy's most cherished possession-but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the CIA-whether they knew it or not. Called ""the most comprehensive account yet of the [CIA's] activities between 1947 and 1967"" by the New York Times, the book presents shocking evidence of the CIA's undercover program o

In 1999, Frances Stonor Saunders published Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War (London: Granta [American title: The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters]). The book received much attention from the media & from academics, & triggered a renewed assessment of this important aspect of Cold War history. Lucas interviewed Saunders about the methods of the CIA, the role of the intellectuals in the political & cultural battles of the Cold War, the question of their autonomy, the need for financial support of cultural activities, & the debate about the principles of intellectuals. Adapted from the source document.