WASHINGTON POST SERIES BARES LOVESTONE AS CIA ARM IN LABOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400550037-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: January 30, 1966
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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Lovestone, ' director of the
AFL-CIO's Department of
International Affairs, as the
CIA's "labor arm," appeared
recent];, in a series of four
long articles in the Wash-
ingtoi1 Post.
The articles that ran daily
starting with the Dec. 30
issue, was the first such full.
blov,-n disclosure in a daily paper
of the work of this shadowy man
who is George Meany's "see-
ret-ry of state" and adviser on
anti-Communist affairs, hitherto,
1,1vcstone's 30-year career as
"Labor's Cold Warrior" - the
tills of the series - was followed
n,o:tly in The Worker and Marx-
ist literature.
Only on rare occasions have
some writers let go bits of in-
formation of this man who made
a profc;sion of hitching the trad"
unions to the kite of the most
rabid coldwarriors. And most
did so to praise his value for
anti-Communist espionage.
Why the Washington Post ran
the series is not clear. We are
told by the staff writer of the
series, Dan Kurzman, that Love.
makes an analysis of his work
and views important.
Put who was at the other
i end of the pipeline that fed the
.material to the Post? Surely it
wasn't, any of Mcany's people.
We can only guess in the light of
the dozens of places where he
has a good word for the policies
and activities of Walter Reuther
and his men in the field of foreign
relations, as he mercilessly ex-
poses the cloak and dagger over.
seas operations under Lovestone
financed by more than $2 million
of AFLCIO money annually.
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f The Post is certainly not a foe,
of U.S. foreign, policy. It is one'
of the country's most influential
papers In support of that policy.
The Kurzman series compiles
much evidence confirming the
continued sharp division in the
AFL-CIO on international affairs
notwithstanding the recent nar.
rowing of the gap between the
Reuther and the Meany-Dubin.
sky-Lovestone group over Viet-
nam policy.
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