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Frances Stonor Saunders obituary

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Frances Stonor Saunders obituary

Author and documentary-maker best known for her 1999 book about CIA-funded cultural espionage Who Paid the Piper? The 1999 book Who Paid the Piper?, Frances Stonor Saunders’s exposé of CIA-funded cultural espionage during the cold war, “single-handedly established a new branch of sub-history”, according to the novelist Ian McEwan.

Translated into 17 languages, the book established Frances, then in her early 30s, as one of the most exciting nonfiction writers of her generation.

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