TY - BOOK AU - Saunders, Frances Stonor. TI - Who paid the piper?: the CIA and the cultural Cold War SN - 9781862073272 U1 - 327.14SAU PY - 1999/// CY - London PB - Granta Books KW - United States. Central Intelligence Agency--Influence N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [476]-480) and index N2 - During the Cold War, writers and artists were faced with a huge challenge. In the Soviet world, they were expected to turn out works that glorified militancy, struggle and relentless optimism. In the West, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy's most cherished possession. But such freedom could carry a cost. This book documents the extraordinary energy of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were instruments - whether they knew it or not, whether they liked it or not - of America's secret service ER -