VIC REUTHER AGAIN TIES CIA, LABOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000100820009-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 17, 2014
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: January 26, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

' Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/01/17:
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r" ., Early ' last year, 'Reuther,!
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?? ? Ident Walter P. Reuther, indi...!
'Again* Ties -tatted that the government was;
. i using the AFL-CIO, as a??. front;
' . CIA Labor ' in a number of areas. ? .:
1 The charges led to one of',
1 ...--- 9 . 't two serious . disputes between..
: Victor Reuther, 'director' of , the ? UAW and the AFL-CIO,:
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-1, the UAW's international affairs over foreign policy. The UAW
I has since ? announced that ?
; department:- s a i 'd yesterday I will go its own way on iinpor-
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? that he will stand behind state-' tant policy decisions..
.ments that he made indicating : . Reuther also said that a
' that the AFL-CIO is involved h "clear, clean military victory.,
with the Central Intelligence in the historic sense' cannot.:
' Agency (CIA) in foreign af-1 be accomplished by either side:,
fairs. . ' ? , tin Vietnam. ? ? . c
: Reuther was here yesteriliy t '? He said that the war could
i for speeches at 'Wayne State only be ended by. a '!political'
; University and\ the Way ife f settlement" . through ,politicallc
1,?County 'AFL-CIO's first of a (conferences at the bargainingi.
0 series of labor forums: He dis- I table. t
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. cussed the UAW's involvement ' Reuther Said the situation lift.
in foreign affairs. ? Vietnam is "not without hope"
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, He denied he had ever 'said and said that the current un-
. that the CIA was involved in rest in China could have a pro-
operations of the American In, nounced affect on ?the position'i
stitute for Free Labor Devel- that Hanoi takes in 'the future.:
, opment (AIFLD). ? Reuther, acoording to press t
'At no time did I make any releases", was, scheduled to dis-f,
statements concerning a con-; cuss the UAW's current dispute.'
'nection between the CIA and, witli. the AFL-CIO on foreign I
'the AIFLD," Reuther said. , ? ..?poliey . and other .matters, but
!. However,, he said' he wouldl'announced . upon.:'his arrival,
I'"stand on 'the statements ? I , that. his .subject ? actually con- 1
fm ad e" Concerning.. CIA .in-,! cerned'labor and. its rOle'-.in
i?vOlvement: in AFL-CIO foreigl foreign relationsr,?',.' ???'. '
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/01/17:
CIA-RDP73-00475R000100820009-8
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