I don't know if you got to the bit where Sayle mentions Jackson Pollock and Encounter magazine and their part in the CIA-funded and supported cultural campaign during the Cold War 'to nudge the intelligentsia of Western Europe away from its lingering fascination with Marxism and Communism to a view more accommodating to the "American way".'

The quote is from The Cultural Cold War by Frances Stonor Saunders. It shows how the CIA supported publications, international conferences, prize-giving etc.

The poet Stephen Spender appears to have been taken in when editor of Encounter Magazine.

As we know, the CIA continues its pernicious influence today, long after the so-called Cold War is officially over.