“Pay attention to two names – US National Endowment for Democracy and Taiwan Democracy Foundation – and think about how the funds are spent, you will understand why in these years some people and some media would tirelessly attack CCP, slam Chinese culture, while promote American-style democracy and glorify wars waged by America on Chinese television, in China cyberspace, on newspapers, magazines, films and books. You may like to know what Tom Joe, a former direct in US Navy Intelligence Centre and current direct at a research centre in Pennsylvania, once revealed:

The operation of buying off China’s influential writers began since 1970s, code named “boiling”, which is one of a series of "soft strike" operations commissioned by Washington. It’s pretty easy to bribe those people, with simple measures like helping them to get their articles to be published on a prestigious overseas magazine, either in their real name or using a pseudonym. The remuneration fees are extremely generous. In the early days it was $2,000 per thousand words, later it increased to $3,500. The payments are normally deposited into their nominated bank accounts through our registered companies in the mainland. During 79 – 88, for instance, at least 120 well-known Chinese writers became our colleborators through bribery, and these people did us a fantastic service during the Tiananmen Incident in 1989. The Chinese writers we've recruited are required to expose China’s dark side and to identify and attack China's weak points, which can also be used as a springboard to facilitate mass protest or open confrontation in China…”

“只要注意一下‘美国民主基金会’和‘台湾民主基金会’这两个组织，你就会明白这些年来为什么总有那么些人和媒体通过讲坛、网络、报刊杂志、影视作品、著书立说等方式反共反华、宣扬美式民主、美化美国对外战争！有一段资料你可以看一下。

汤姆.乔（美国宾西法尼亚洲约翰劳蒂研究中心主任原美国海军情报中心主任）：

拉拢中国名人作家。这是一个早在上个世纪70年代就开始的当时代号计划为“沸”的行动。这是根据华盛顿针对中国采取的一系列软性打击而制定的。

收买中国文人十分容易，例如帮助他们在海外知名刊物上在重要版面发表他们的文章。文章可以是署名的，也可以以化名出现。稿酬是十分可观的。在早期每千字约2000美金，后期上涨到3500美金。这些资金通过我们在大陆的公司输入他们所指定的帐号。

[中国在79－88年之间，至少约有120名当时十分具有名气的中国国籍文人被我们以各种手段收买。这些人的主要作用就是在八九年从事针对中国的破坏行动。我们要求他们针对中国的弱点进行打击，重点在揭露中国的黑暗面。这也是帮助产生群体性事件的基础。目前这种做法依旧在五角大楼那里实施与执行！] …”