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The C.I.A., worried that the public might be too influenced by Orwell's pox-on-both-their-houses critique of the capitalist humans and Communist pigs, dispatched agents to buy the film rights to "Animal Farm" from his widow to make its message more overtly anti-Communist.

Rewriting the end of "Animal Farm" is just one example of the often absurd lengths to which the C.I.A. went, as recounted in a new book, "The Cultural Cold War: The C.I.A. and the World of Arts and Letters" (The New Press) by Frances Stonor Saunders, a British journalist. Published in Britain last summer, the book will appear here next month.

Traveling first class all the way, the C.I.A. and its counterparts in other Western European nations sponsored art exhibitions, intellectual conferences, concerts and magazines to press their larger anti-Soviet agenda.

She also shows how the C.I.A. bankrolled some of the The C.I.A., worried that the public might be too influenced by Orwell's pox-on-both-their-houses critique of the capitalist humans and Communist pigs, dispatched agents to buy the film rights to "Animal Farm" from his widow to make its message more overtly anti-Communist.

Rewriting the end of Animal Farm is just one example of the often absurd lengths to which the C.I.A. went, as recounted in a new book, The Cultural Cold War: The C.I.A. and the World of Arts and Letters" (The New Press) by Frances Stonor Saunders, a British journalist.

Published in Britain last summer, the book will appear in North America next month. Traveling first class all the way, the C.I.A., and its counterparts in other Western European nations, sponsored art exhibitions, intellectual conferences, concerts and magazines to press their larger anti-Soviet agenda.

She also shows how the C.I.A. bankrolled some of the earliest exhibitions of Abstract Expressionist painting outside of the United States to counter the Socialist Realism being advanced by Moscow.

The Cultural Cold War:

The C.I.A. and the

World of Arts and Letters

(The New Press)

by Frances Stonor Saunders

a British journalist.



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In addition to being short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award upon publication in 2000, Frances Stonor Saunders's The Cultural Cold War was met with the kind of attention reserved for books that directly hit a cultural nerve. Impassioned reviews and features in major publications such as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have consistently praised Saunders's detailed knowledge of the CIA's covert operations. The Cultural Cold War presents for the first time shocking evidence of cultural manipulation during the Cold War. This "impressively detailed" (Kirkus Reviews) book draws together newly declassified documents and exclusive interviews to expose the CIA's astonishing campaign wherein some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom became instruments of the American government. Those involved included George Orwell, Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Gloria Steinem. The result is "a tale of intrigue and betrayal, with scene after scene as thrilling as any in a John Le Carré novel" (The Chronicle of Higher Education).8 pages of black-and-white photographs.

Not all of these people were unwilling instruments; some were quite willing, it appears. Tom Hayden claims in his book Reunion that Gloria Steinem was a CIA agent and recruiter during the early days of SDS. Orwell has been exposd as a snitch who turned over names of suspected leftists to British Intelligence. Schlesenger was and is a Cold War liberal who willingly cooperated with and took part in government plans to advance the cause of capitalism around the world. The CIA has always had a liberal wing, quite willing to make use of people like him, who were in turn quite willing to be used.

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