MEANY DENIES CIA HAS SPIES IN LABOR UNIT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500220037-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 7, 2010
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: August 23, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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AUG 2 3 1966
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I' '1 ~ i Y uJ), Reuther also contended that the
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The AIFLD, a unit of-the AFL-,
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By JACI{ MALLON and the federal government.
Staff Correspondent of TILE NEWS Formed in 1962, it trains Latin
Chicago, Aug. 22-AFL-CIO American trade unionists and;
"resident George Meany vigor- promote better-housing and social
usty denied today charges that programs.
}77.7771 . the Central In-; "I'm no agent of the U.S. gov
t e 1.1 i g e n es ornment. No one is going to make
Agency had in- me into some cloak and dagger
filtrated" into character," Joseph Bierne secre-
the labor organ- tary treasurer of th AIFi,D, said
Nation's pro- after yesterdays e x e c u t i v e
gram in Latin session.
America. Demands Condemnation
Blasting crit- ' Bierne, also president of the.
ics who have Communications Workers of
charged that America, insisted in the closed
the American meeting that the 29-man execu:
"formenting revolutions" and act- dent of the UAW, said, 'He's my'
as "training school for company brothee and I'm not going to sit :
unions," the executive council of here without defending him."
'the AFL-CIO meeting here passed Although be said he supported!
a resolution condemning "the the basic. goal of the AIFLD, the,
'campaign of vilification con- UAW president objected to the
ducted against the AIFLD." Presence of businessmen on the
At the May Convention of the board of the. international labor.
United Auto Workers in Cali- organization..
foria, Victor Reuther, head of the AYPT The resollutiond supporting the
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Institute for tive council condemn the accusa-
George Free Labor Do- tions of Victor Reuther.
Meany velopment was Victor's brother, Walter, presi='
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Lgence agency Jacob Potofsky, president of the:
was working through unionists Amalgamated Clothing Workers"
trained by the AIFLD. ;Union,. abstained. ,'.? ... ;, ~,
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11' Panama to protect U.S. interests.! Walter n on an
Reuther voting against it.,
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UAW's international department an con emmng Its de-
charged that CIA agents had tractors was passed by a 23 - 2
been manipulating unions in vote dent , with Joseph Curran, presi
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