CIA-LARBOR TIEUP TO OPENLY CHARGED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100110024-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 2, 1998
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: August 14, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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CPYRGW SHINGTON, Aug. 13.
cloaks flying around a closed
room in Chicago's Hotel Ambasd
sador East come Aug. 22. If the "in
`;igence community" of labor's high CPYRGHT
orsmand is as well-informed as it
'asualy it, the word is that tha Reuther
L }nets
p}an to give the Central Tn
1i
`~:clligence Agency another going over?
it position is that the CIA is active'
?. the labor affairs of the world-and
robably inside American unions, too.'
T he brothers, 1W ':ter and Vic-
disapprove. r':... at least
Vctor has openly charged that
s oar's president George Meany ieany's people believe that' Victors IFLD 'is jointly sponsored"by
la-i
nd his International t r~i d' fl }
.?., zs . ut nets statements to the Senate bor, management and Govern.
:actor, Jay Lovestone, worts F eign Relations Committee chair. ment. Meany is president; J.i
closely with the CIA. m n prompted Mr. Fuibright to sug.,,Peter Grace, of the famed steamship'
zt will all come to a loud and angry,g t publicly that t: e CIA intervenes'
ntervenes 'line, is chairman of the board. But the;
i:owdown during the AFL-CIO Execu. . S. union elections. - 'active executive is a battling Irish.:
`ive Council. (high command) session.i, she Senator freely discussed thd,.Iman, Joe Beirne, head of the Corn
No matter which side wins, the CIA,,r tter with me: ,munications Workers of America. He!
16 hich undoubtedly has a unit of labor : "This is one of the questions-,.''is AIFLD secretary-treasury.
pecialists doing what comes naturally, vhich had been nny mind,".'_;`t? It is the opinion of many observers 11
a a world rapidly going labor, will' aid the gentleman from Arkan ;.who have been out in the field, includ.
ose. Certainly some\of its classified'; as. "I have had s?ttggestions that "ing this columnist, that AIFLD has
ctivities will be made public. key (the' CIA) had taken a very.:-l,dond mighty constructive work. It edu-1
For some weeks now, Victor Reu trong part jn labor union organ. Kates some 20,000 workers and labor
her's people have had a small task nation in the Dominican Repub.. 'i officials throughout Latin America. It
orce here digging up what they can . le. I believe. they have worked,',:-,1'
orked - :?:i builds worker-owned Dousing in the-
o bolster his charges that Meany and. and in glove wi, Meany's crowd s=um areas of big, cities such as Mexico'
ovestone virtually are CIA aaants 1 va fl- A rT ("n cr..a v d - _. ___1 +es..
01, 1 t t.
have
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a skilled and prolific writer now whether there has been any
It has put up social and welfare `i
eaving the material into one docu? nterference in American unions. ands clinic centers in such innpov-. - }
I which could be published easily, tried to get t -nswer from the cn ishcci areas as 'Carping, in Bra-
' siders believe that this will be pub..?__ ormer (CI t/yf Itaborn. : nil's rural northeast, which I vis. shed as a pamphlet just before the':. ut he would not reply." 171 Ited last year. It provides disaster
ouncil meeting. . his matter of alleged CIA opera., aid. It builds playgrounds.
ti is ins d e labor had- followed by a, What has .angered Meany, Beirne'
NGER inside the Meany camp,m nth the flare-up-over Victor Reu- ..and Lovestone most has been the of-'
over the original and recent:tls is open attack, not only on Meany~ iect on the AFL-CIO's international
charges by Victor Reuther has' al Lovestone, but upon "'tie. American, work, It would be' hampered in . its
peen compounded by reports that the' In titute for Free Labor 'cve.;~ bolstering of free unions abroad.
odnger Reuther, 54-year-old, Victor, V %euther had asser', ha ^ec Event if there were a rIA-AFL CIO
ent to 'Sen. Fulbright with reports of ti s of'AI.cLD had keen used. o? CIA link somewhere, why shouia sald.
L'cged Mcany Love atone ingelligenco aJ nts, especially y in, i aka is ~ to'one's?country b considered .,,
^tivity;' 1 t ., a - .. :, h,C.:,.', ___ _ a?";/',
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