TOKEN AID HIDES MASS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2000
• Sequence Number: 175
• Publication Date: December 14, 1968
• Content Type: NSPR

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TOEKN AID hIDES MASS SUBVIRSTON
Daily World Saturday, December .14, 196
05~ du
By GEORGE if1:.ORRIS
(Last of'_3.articlcs)
Since the 1557 exposure of the way the CIA used a network of dummy foundations to
channel funds for the numerous labor, student, research and cultural organizations front-
ing for it around the globe, the emphasis has shifted to an assortment of inconsequential.
"aid" projects financed by the U.S. Agency for International Aid as covers for intelligence
The financing is open and
on the record for such pur-
poses, but the actual extent
of the aid is just a shade
above nothing.
I vinl;__Brown, executive head
of the African American Labor
Center, claims 'he iiow ?lias 34.
pr jccts in,16 African countries.
He boasts of a Kenya Tailoring,'I
Institute to teach Kenyans how to
sew, vocational training in Addis
Ababa for several dozen in build- I
ing trades crafts, a medical clinic,
in Ghana, and similar undertak-
ings. , They are frequently pub;
licized in the AFL-CIO press t
give an impression that they have
a great. impact on the economic
and'sociaf acveiopment of"Africa.
Strictly for show
In substance, thc:,c projects are
of the small-potatoes variety, like
those in Latin America which the
American Institute for Free Labor
Development (AIFLD) publicizes
in multi-colored pamphlets. They
are strictly for show in the finan-
cial books, an excuse to place
agents and make contacts..
Why then should the U.S. gov-
ernment give AIFLD more than $5
million annually and AALC about.
$2 million annually . (and who
knows how much more)? Why put
such vast amounts of money under
the supervision of an Irving
Brown? Does Brown possess a
special talent for organizing in-
dustrial, technical, social and ed-
ucational projects?
An article in the May 20, 1967, ~'.
Saturday Evening Post by Thomas
Braden, who was spcciat"assisc
ant'to'CIA chief Allan W. Dulles
in 1950-54, threw some light on
where Brown's and Jay Love-
stone's talents lie. Braden who
c Iled hisyart cle; "I'm Glad the
CIA is 'immoral,' " boasted that
he originated the idea of secretly
financi
l
b
t
d
t
d
th
ng
a
or s
u
en
an
o
er
, organizations for CIA services and,
defended the idea at the moment
when-the country was shocked by .
Still has receipt, ~~
Braden said he still has the ycl+ iI
taken from CIA vaults in 1947 be-
cause "he needed it to pay off the
strongarm squads in-Mediterran-
ean ports," that Brown hired
against left-led French and Italian
dock workers.
Similarly Braden described
how, because the militant left-
labor unions in Europe were a
led
major obstacle to the CIA, the
CIA turned to Meany and Love-
Cemmunist union.~'dyen they ran an. I
ant Irving Brown. With funds.,
from Dubinsky's union, they or-'
gantzed~Force Ouvriere, a non-" ,.I
"stepped Lovestonc and his assist-.
operations."
"Into the crisis," he wrote,
stone who, Braden said, "had an ?
enormous grasp of foreign intelli 'q
out of money they appealed to the : ;
CIA. Thus began the secret sub
sidy of free trade unions which
The men whom the AFL-CIO