AIDE SAYS LABOR GOT MARSHALL PLAN MONEY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400550005-6
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 9, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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stone said C otnini nists'in the labor move- As the interview ended.,
in Lovestonc gave another rebut-
IRVING BROWN, who was 1-i e. has contributed anti-So- tal to Braden's charges: "if I
then head of the AFL's of viet resolutions to AFL-CIO were' in charge of the CIA,
fire in F?,uropc'at the time, un platforms and is credited with we,wouldp't have all these dis
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-- A high
AFL-CIO official says Ameri-
can labor representatives re-
ceived "generous" amounts of
foreign currencies from Mir
shall Plan sour- cs in the curly.
1950s and helped. spare West-
ern Europe from widespread,
Red-inspired labor strife.
*' lay Lovestone, director of,
the AFL-CIO Department. of
international Affairs and long-
time foreign policy adviser to
Jcderalion PresidenI George
Mcany, made the statements in
-an interview.
Lovestonc said these "'c.pun-;
terpart funds" were obtained
by U.S. labor officials .from
the Paris headquarters of the
Economic Co-operation Ad-
mini,tiation? (I CA) and spent
in France, Italy and West Ger-
many., No one, he said, could
estimate how much money was
received.
HE l)END'.1), however, the
assertion by former Central in-
telligence Agency, executive
/fhomas Braden that the CIA
supplied the former AFL with
millions of dollars for this pur-
pose.
In fact, the peppery Love-
stone said, he told top CIA of-
ficials to "keep their fingers
i out of the pie" in' European
labor affairs and they did so.
The foreign currencies
LL b.
ca s te nave to upset Comnnrnist effort to ges to rotten eggs. Comnurnistgtakeover of French
block unloading of; N[arsnall
,Plan Supplies in Frcnc'h ports, O V E S'T' O N E, a ? quick- itabor-.unions. He said the Com-
rs tnvo vc e uin,;
a:
waterfront 'toughs to 'compete an;:] piercing ..blue eyes, once military.: organization with a
lnis4 gangs -trvin,T headed the Ani~rican Com- strength of 68.000 and French
with C0111m1
funds for such, work, Love-
stone said.. .. .
This money also was used
to ,assist the Force Ouvriers
(lO) - an anti-Commu-'
nist labor group in France -
and similar union organiza-
tions in Italy and Germany, he
added. ?
"Lot me' tell you, counter-
ptart funds were spent gener-
ously;" Lovestone recalled.
"If it hadn't been for the
AFL, then you would have
lost Europe. We did it with
courage - not cash," he said.
"If it -hadn't' been for us,
the Commies would have corn
plcte -control,'of the French
and" Italian 'trade unions and
could have paralyzed t h e i r
economics.
"Economic instability -
that's sauce for the:. Commu-
nist goose - and that leads to
labor issues.
Eyes downcast, he said: "I
never had any dealings with.
Braden.. Nobody in the AFL-
CIO took any money from
Braden," J
l..aler, more spirited, he ad- j
dcd: "I think Braden is all I
wet. He wouldn't know the dif?
ference between a Communist
union, a bona fide union and
?a pregnant mare.
LOVESTONE found solace
in the admission by United Au-
to Workers' president Walter'
P; Reuther that the UAW
transmitted $50,000 from the
CIA to German unionists.
Reuther and his brother,
Victor, long have been, accus-
ing Lovestone of working with
the CIA. . Now, Lovestone
beams: "People in glass houses
political instability - sauce for 1 shouldn't throw stokes."
-~ Y And he noted with a raised
;eyebrow that Reuther and Bra-
'den are both on the board of
directors of the Carnegie
Foundation,___
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