JAY LOVESTONE BATTLES COMMUNISM AND MYSTIFIES THE LABOR MOVEMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400550002-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: December 17, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Relates Clash
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cratic a n d social
abroad.
'A af-
diemo-
reform
The two sides have often
clashed over their different
philosophies on international
affairs. These clashes are
.6flygnVemenri,
sists of trade unionists, Cath-
olics, anarchists, even mon-
archists, but no Communists.
"Victor would have us in-
clude the Communists and
the Falangists, but we know
better. These latter groups
would form a coalition with
can unionists who have been
schooled in an international
affairs program in Front
Royal, Va. He is vague on
the number of graduates,
variously stating figures of
7,000, 10,000 and 12,000. One
41,u causa we tween the UAW and the na- ment." move- tives is to learn to "answer
tional AFL-CIO, and contrib- Communist arguments and
Critics of Mr. Lovestone
maintain that no area gets At the recent national AFL-
resignation from all but one more attention, advice, money, CIO convention in Miami
of his federation offices. and intelligence agents, than Beach, Fla., it was reported-!
Mr. Lovestone, who de- Latin America. The vehicle by that the federation has spent I
lights in pointing out what lie which Mr. Lovestone operates .$250,000 on AIFLD in the last t
regards as inconsistencies of is the American Institute for two years. Another $50,000
the Reuthers, said: "For all Free L a b o r Development was appropriated. M a n y
the tie .iiouthEls hau to sajt (AIFLD), which fibs as its tunes. this amount, fidwever;
about our operational meth- U.S. Government counterpart comes from AID.
ods, don't forget that it was the Agency f o r International
Victor who accepted CIA Development (AID).
LENDING credence to Mr.
"
money. Lovestone'
s continuing con-
F
agencies intelligence informa-
tion gathered by his world-
wide network of. labor con-
; facts,
The 68-year-old Lovestonc,
' it~1alitt t>t tat- _gtiieidl e.t
the Anl&ican Com m u n i s t
party w'io has turned with a
tinnal affairs department. col
By s1 e.N CLAWSON
DIFFERENCES in ideolo-
gy, lie said, are illustrated
by an underground movement
in which the AFL-CIO cur-
rently is involved in Spain.
Mr. Lovestone said that the
anti-Franco movement c o n-
UNCTIONS of AIFLD are
to train Latin workers in
democratic unionism and to
provide housing, banks, and
other institutions f o r. them.
Mr. Lovestone is partic-
ularly proud of the number
of Central and South Ameri=
eign policy line, t1ed u
rice A r AFor ,ease] iQA P7A , t. _...._4
rer and his brot s ,`` or Mr. Love.,,,,. ,1;,,~,.,- ~ ~~
often discover information of
an intelligence nature 'be-
cause they are closer to the
people.
"These 1,arvard and Yale
graduates that work for our
government can't get infor-
mation because they have no
rapport with the people. They
loot down on the people."
IT HAS been charged that
like many converts, Mr.
Lovest.one approaches his
work with an overzealousness
t h at borders on fanaticism.
Two of his sharpest critics
are the brothers, Walter and
Victor Reuther, of the United
Auto Workers.
While Mr. Lovestone and
his boss, AFL-CIO president,
George M e a n y, admittedly
follow an anti-Communist for-
vengea.;ce on his former ideol-
ogy, emphatically d e n t e s,
howu 'e-", that he acts as
an agent of the Central Intel-
ligence Agency (CIA) or has
everacectited CIA funds.
"'1 am a trade unionist and
an American," he said. "When
our people come up with infor-
mal.ion vital to the national se-
curily, I turn it over to the
proper authorlt ns,"
He added that labor offi-
cials abroad and foreign
trade unionists trained under
the AFL-CIO international af-
fairs department supervision.
tact with these cadres of
Latin unionists is the fact
that they are paid a year's.
salary by AIFLD following
their return home. Mr. Love-
stone said the amount per in-
dividual ranges from $1,000
to $2,000, and the funds are ?
to sustain trainees until they
re-enter their local labor
force.
Mr. Lovestone says he has
few pleasures in life aside
from his work, w h I c h
}
normally occupies about 18
hours a day. He speaks with d
a seemingly Inexhaustible
supply of information about
labor activities in nearly }
every corner of the world,
including Africa. He is pow-
erful in foreign affairs within
the Johnson Administration,
as many disappointed candi-
dates for government jobs
abroad can attest.
His current worry concerns ,
a movement by West German
trade unions toward affilia-
tion with labor organizations
from the Communist bloc.
'Jr. Lovestone believes that
is impossible to coexist
i t h Communists because
they have no desire to co-
exist;
it is just that the Com-
munisth` are becoming less
brutal and more subtle in
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