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Matt Kennard
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This is very sad news. She was just 60

Her book Who Paid the Piper? on the CIA's covert manipulation of our culture is one of most important history/politics books of my lifetime

I met her a few years ago and she said was considering doing a sequel

I also interviewed her for a story about the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in 2022

“The NED is the umbilical cord of gold that leads directly back to Washington,” she told me. “And by this I’m not only referring to official US government programmes, but to the vast network of clandestine players that plan and enact its information warfare operations”

She added: “The cultural Cold War has never gone away, it’s just shifted from target to target"

Edward Said reviewed her book on CIA for LRB in 1999. Read here: https://
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v21/