Frances Stonor Saunders
 Frances Stonor Saunders     ( 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]
Quotes by Frances Stonor Saunders
| Page | Quote | Date |
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| National Endowment for Democracy | “The NED is the umbilical cord of gold that leads directly back to Washington...And by this I’m not only referring to official U.S. government programmes, but to the vast network of clandestine players that plan and enact its information warfare operations. The cultural Cold War has never gone away, it’s just shifted from target to target.” | January 2022 |
| The Georgetown Set | “In long exchanges, heated by intellectual passion and alcohol, their vision of a new world order began to take shape. Internationalist, abrasive, competitive, these men had an unshakeable belief in their value system, and in their duty to offer it to others. They were the patricians of the modern age, the paladins of democracy, and saw no contradiction in that. This was the elite which ran American foreign policy and shaped legislation at home. Through think-tanks to foundations, directorates to membership of gentlemen's clubs, these mandarins were interlocked by their institutional affiliations and by a shared belief in their own superiority.” |
References
- ↑ In Gabriel Rockhill, Who paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?, page 63
