CIA & AFL-CIO: THE BIGGER STORY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400550009-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: February 18, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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1.1110 AFL-CIO's chief foreign-policy operatives are revealed tc
have been subsidized partners in CIA's games, and If the CIA I.,
Vor the.. AhIXIO's top ofixelMdont, the explosion over CIr1 even shown to have taken a hand in Internal union conflicts here
ng shortly yin Miami and there will undoubtedly bu press inquir?I what has blunder;
' egun,'to i happn to CIA, and many get caught.
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CantStature will asic embarrassing questions.
The questions, however, will persist and they will be espe-
eially awkward because too many men, of labor privately know
loo much about the facts. Bland denials may become, increasingly
Hazardous in the face of the Congressional curiosity that the stu-?:
dent story has already stimulated. ?
Such an investigation, it can be flatly stated, would reveal
that various International and Latin-American operations of the.
AFL-CIO have been heavily subsidized through CIA conduits.
It would also disclose at least one sensational case of quiet
CIA intervention in- an election in an AFL-CIO union. When the-
"CIA man" won, the union's staff and budget rose and its inter=
national activity suddenly increased in Latin America and the
Middle East.
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11'hatever trip, extent of CIA's financial support, for T,ov
stone's many maneuvers, the uncontestable fart is that hr has
continued to receive a blank check from AFL-CIO leadership.
Not until long afterward did it become known that one o
Lovestone's "institutes" actively helped to train Brazilian union.
fists here to participate in the military coup against Goulart'
13razi-lian regime (only to discover two years later that an allege
leftist but constitutional government had been replaced by a
oppresive tyranny of the right).
And finally an inquiry would show innumerable instances. in
which AFL-CIO agents collaborated with CIA's cloak-and-dagger:,,
men in an infinite variety of coups and undercover intrigues.
The i;ry figure In the AFL-CIO's underground ties to' CL
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is Jay Lovestone, sometimes known as George Meany's.personal ;
secretary of state. Lovestone, a Communist leader in the 1920.s,
has become in modern times'a highflying hawk whose views are-
often indistinguishable from Barry Goldwater's. Last June he
told an interviewer that he favored a "more forceful" position on
Vietnam than President Johnson's and he proclaimed "superior.
military strength and no appeasement" as his slogan.
Lovestone and Victor Reuther have frequently clashed, and;.
'last May Reuther first aired the charge of Lovestone's? relations .
Ivith CIA. He also observed that "the tragedy- of AFL-CIO activi-"'
ties in the field of foreign affairs is that they area vest-pocket
operation by Jay Lovestone."
Lovestcmc, a 66-year-old, high-spirited veteran of'many public
and c1.1 ir.etine wars, has always blandly, denied' any close ties
to CIA. iiut few sophlsticated laborites have doubted the intimacy.'
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