Frances Stonor Saunders
| Frances Stonor Saunders link IMDB (Journalist, historian) | |
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| Born | 14 April 1966 |
| Alma mater | St Anne's College Oxford |
| Parents | Donald Robin Slomnicki Saunders, Julia Camoys Stonor |
| Exposed | Congress for Cultural Freedom |
| Interests | CIA, cold war |
Her 1999 book Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War helped further expose how the Central Intelligence Agency used the Congress for Cultural Freedom to buy large parts of the Western intelligentsia during the Cold War. | |
Frances Stonor Saunders is a British journalist and historian. Her 1999 book Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War helped further expose how the Central Intelligence Agency used the Congress for Cultural Freedom to buy large parts of the Western intelligentsia during the Cold War.
Almost scrapped
The US edition was almost scrapped because Free Press, which had published many of the authors critically analyzed by Saunders, tried to force her to add a disclaimer reversing the book's fundamental argument. She was asked to write that the CIA "was on the side of the angels", and that "America's was a good cause". When she refused, Free Press dumped the project and sent her a bill for $15,000. Fortunately, New Press picked up the project and hired a lawyer to obtain the rights and save the book. [1]
References
- ↑ In Gabriel Rockhill, Who paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?, page 63
