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        1. Research Library

        Who Paid the Piper? CIA and the Cultural Cold War (1999)

        Frances Stonor Saunders

        London: Granta Books 2000

        ISBN 9781862073272

      2. This book details how the United States, and specifically the Central Intelligence Agency, sought to win the hearts and minds of Western Europe after WWII, in particular by organizing and bankrolling pro-West cultural programs from exhibitions to conferences to journals. Important for FW because its chronicles how the US sought to impose a certain understanding of what the ‘West’ and western culture were on Western Europe during the Cold War period.

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