DENVER LABOR GROUPS DENY CIA LINKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000400580002-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2014
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 25, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/01/06: CIA-RDP73-00475R000400580002-9
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.1- Two Denver-headquartered labor groups .Friday
-denied reports they had received Central intelligence
,Agency funds to carry on international activities:
By AL NAM:GLA
Rocky Mountain' News Writer
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According to reports from
Washington, the two unions re-
ceived CIA funds to further CIA
and Government interests in
Latin America and the Middle
'East. ?
; Named were the Oil, Chemical
iand Atomic Workers (OCAW),
with a membership of 166,000 in
this country and Canada, and
'the International Federation of
'petroleum and Chemical Work-
's (IFPCW), one of 18 Inter-
national T rad e Secretariats
(ITS) with representation of
nearly 2 million petroleum and
'phemical workers in 153 unions
and federations of unions in 78
countries.
All Ties Denied
Loyd Haskins, IFPCW gen-
- secretary here; categor-
ically and emphatically denied
any ties to the CIA.
rn .a lengthy statement, Has-
kins said, "The 1FPCW has
never knowingly accepted CIA
funds, either .directly or indi-
rectly.- ? , . .
? "It is inconceivable to us
that any funds we have re-
ceived from any sources could
in any-way be connected with
CIA. Our activities in opposi-
tion to the U.S. oil companies
operating around the. world
are Obviously not in accord
with U.S., foreign polt.cy
position." ? :
t The OCAW- statement was
short and.terse. A-union spokes-
man quoted A:- F. .Grospiron,
OCAW international president,
as stating:
"We are receiving or dis-
bursing no funds from any other
source than from the dues. of
our- members."
Change Is Made
The
spokesman said the
OCAW does pay per capita fees
of 2 cents a 'month to . the
IFPCW as . an' affiliate_ in the
same manner, in which local
Denver- AFL-CIO unions pay
affiliation fees to the,-Denver
Area Labor Federation and the
Colorado Labor_ Council.. ? ?
Haskins charged some of thel(LTSCD) and the Midland Fowl-.
accusations against his leder:I.:dation
lion are coming from an ? ITS' ?'This funding has been- ap-,
headquartered in Geneva.'
zerland. with which the IFPCW
proved by. the international gov-
erning bodies of IFPCW and has
has a jurisdictional .dispute. 1generally been'', used.. for trade
. Ile said any funds; outside union -. education .,.- programs,"1
the 2-cent per capita affilin. Haskell said ' ? ',? . ? ? .....,A ?
i.. . . . . , . .
lion fee, coming .from non- k -""-???????!'"'"`"'"'"'''''''''
.affiliated- organizations are re-
ceived "unencumbered with
any restrictions."
Haskins said theIFPCW hasi
received funds from such organ-
izations -as the 'international!
Confederation of . Free ? Trade
Unions (ICFTU), the Organiza-
tion for Economic Cooperation
and :Development (OECD), the
International Labor. Organizi-
tion--United Nations, the Lea
'gue for International Social an
cooperation D.e.V el op in. 6 n
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/01/06: CIA-RDP73-00475R000400580002-9