CIA-LABOR TIEUP IS OPENLY CHARGED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200880011-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 3, 1999
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: August 14, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 1999/09/17 : C6A-1 1 001, 000200880
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.
::ERE will be more daggers -~ an
.~ cloaks flying around a closed
room in Chicago's Hotel Ambasd
sador East come Aug. 22. If the "in-
telligence community" of labor's high
command is as well-icr"formed as it
usui:..ly it, the word is that the Reuther.
hers nian to give the Central In
diligence Agency another going over.:
Their position is that the CIA is activo
in the labor affairs of the world-and
probably :side American unions, too.'
The i?others, Walter and Vic-
tor, disapprove. And at leas-,
Victor has openly charged that
,
his International Affairs di. Reuther's statements to the Senate'
bor, management and Govern:
rector, lay Lovestone, wort: Foreign Relations Committee chair. ment. Meany is president,, J.i
closely with the CIA. ,man prompted Mr. Fulbright to sug-- Peter Grace, of the famed steamship'
it will all come to a loud and angry,gest publicly that the CIA intervenes line, is chairman of the board. But the
;owdown during the AFL-CIO Execuin U. S. union elections. active executive is a battling Irish
tive Council, (high command) session.;. The Senator freely discussed the.., man, Joe Beirne, head of the Com-,
No matter which side wins, the CIA, matter. with me: , ,munications Workers of America. He'
which undoubtedly has a unit of labor: "This is one of the questions :is AIFLD secretary-treasury.
specialists doing what comes naturally, which had been in my mind," It is the opinion of many observers,
in a world rapidly going labor, will '.said the gentlk__ian from Arkan .'`:,who have been out in the field, includ
lose. Certainly some\of its classified', sas. "I have had si.iggestions that ing this columnist, that AIFLD has'
activities will be made public. , they (the' CIA) had taken a verydone mighty constructive work. It edu-
For some weeks now, Victor Reu?, strong part.jn labor union organ. .:;caies some 20,000 workers and labor"
ther's people have had a small task ization in the Dominican Iiepub?? 'l; officials throughout Latin America. It;
force here digging up what they can . 'lie. I believe . they have worked r :~I builds worker-owned housing in the,
to bolster his charges that Meany and,, hand in glove with Meany's crowd slum areas of big, cities such as Mexico!
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went to?Scn. Fulbright with reports of ttons of AIFLD had been used by CIA llnk sosncwhere, why should c i 'aid
alleged Meany-Loyeston . a . nca a ie,:ts, especially irr. Panay,:a.,; to ' one'scountry b~ considered by any.
lions inside labor had- followed by a" " ? What has :angered Meany, Beirne'
NGER inside the Meany 'camp month the flare-up-over Victor Reu-1 and Lovcstone most has been the of-'
over the original and recent ther's open. attack, not only on Meany,? feet on the AFL-CIO's international
charges by Victor Reuther has'and Lovestone, but upon the American, work. It' would be'-hampered in its
been compounded by reports that the Institute for Free Labor Development.. bolstering of free unions abroad.
weaving the material into one docu interference in American unions, ands clinic centers in such impov.. -
ment which could be published easily. I tried to get that answer from the crished areas as 'Carpina, in Bra-
Insiders believe that this will be pub former (CIA) Director Raborn., zil's rural northeast, which I vis-
lished as a pamphlet just before the' Bnt he would not reply." - - Ited last year. i;t provides disaster
'Council meeting. This matter of alleged. CIA opera aid. ,It builds playgrounds.
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They have a skilled and prolific writer aow whether there has been any ' `` It has put up social and welfare