CIA'S LABOR FRONT IN AFRICA TOKEN AID HIDES MASS SUBVERSION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: December 14, 1968
• Content Type: NSPR

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14 December 19b
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C,I 'YRGHT By GEORGE MORRIS
i' .(Last of 3-articles)
Since the 1967 exposure of the way-the CIA used a network of dummy foundations t, i
channel funds for the numerous labor, student, research and cultural organizations front
hasis has shifted to an assortment of inconsequentiaio
the em
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ing for it aroun
"aid" projects financed by the U.S. Agency for International Aid as covers for intelli gen e.
The financing is open and-'--';p-i950-54, threw some light on ''the business a'quarter century a
on the record for such pur- where Brown's and Jay Love- longer.
A naive suggestion
Braden who
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poses, but the actual extent stone
An editorial in the Nov. 11 iss
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of the aid is just a shade; ca
CIA is `immoral,' " boasted that'; of the Nation magazine, commen -1
above nothing. he originated the idea of secretly , ing on the Los Angeles Times Oc
seco - -
;-01 the nu7udil Hlllul lu"11 u"-',..organizations for CIA services and,,-~ .-'?
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Center, claims he now has 34 defended the idea at the moment .? that U.S. money'uscd by AALC f r .
projects in 16 African countries.1 when the country was shocked by anti-Communist purposes S
He boasts of a Kenya Tailoring the CIA disclosures. "elements in the indigenous labor
Institute to teach Kenyans how to ' movement at one another s `
" and asks:
in Addis: Still has receipt throat
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Ababa for several dozen in build-, Braden said he still has the yel- .,Is it too much to expect t t
low faded on which Brown
paper the new administration taki g
a medical clinic
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in Ghana, and similar undertak-. gave him a receipt for $15,000 over in January will, as part o a
ings. They are frequently pub.'. taken from CIA vaults in 1947 be -'general overhaul of the State ~*-
licized in the AFL-CIO press to- cause "he needed it to pay off the artment, re-examine the role of
give an impression that they have' strongarm squads in Mediterran- ! AFL-CIO in relation to Ameri n
a great impact on the economic j can ports," that Brown hired policy -??- or, to put it more diir A-
and social development of Africa.., against left-led French and Italian lye the role of Jay Lovesto e?
Strictly for show dock workers. The record of Lovestone s a-
In substance, these projects are, Similarly Braden described '" bor diplomacy throughout the c ld
of the small-potatoes variety, like how, because the militant left- war years forces the conclusion'.
those in Latin America which the led labor unions in Europe were a ~., that his influence s h o u 1 4 be'{
n Institute for Free Labor!- major obstacle to the CIA, the severed now, before his misc a-?
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Development (AIFLD) publicizes,'- CIA turned to Meany and Love- vous intrigues involve American in multi-colored pamphlets. They :ai stone who, Braden said, "had an.,, olic for Africa in the same :f-.
iculties that have attended his,
are strictly for show in the finan- enormous grasp of foreign intelli- policy
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earlier efforts in Euraiie,
cial books, an excuse to place gence operations.
agents and make contacts. "Into the crisis," be wrote, -Latin America."
Why then should the U.S. gov-; "stepped Lovestone and his assist- .!' The suggestion appears na ve.
ive AIFLD more than $5 'ant Irving Brown. With funds.,., We have shown in exposures si cc
ernment
g
million annually and AALC about from Dubinsky's union, tt!ey or- y61 and in Thursday's article hat
$2 million annually (and who ganized Force Ouvriere, a non- it was Nixon who as vice-presi ent
knows how much more)? Why put . Communist union. When they ran I, 'had a big part in setting the S. 'such vast amounts of money under out of money they appealed to the course in Africa along lines hat;
the supervision of an Irving CIA. Thus began the secret sub-,1+ require the services of a L ve-
Brown? Does Brown possess a Sidy of free trade unions which :, stone and a Brown.
special talent for. organizing in- Soonn spread to Italy." Demos' record
dustrial, technical, social and ed- 1 , The men?whom- the. AFL-CIO _z!`> And the Democr is have de
ucational projects? ?O-esents to the public as promot-. even more effective use of pot tic
An article in the May 20, 1967, sr ers of welfare, technical and cul- C ally allied men like Meany; Du-
Saturday Evening Post by Thomas' aural projects are simply intelli I binsky, Lovestone, Brown, the
Braden, who was special: assist.. c nee o1rator who have been ink late ' George M. Harrison and
1; -g ;, , , .., _..,.it-
James Suffridge, to name lea ers
ant to CIA -chief Allan, Wx:I?ultes..J
e( - most intimately involved wit the
"Labor front" of the CIA.
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