CIA MONEY TO REUTHERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600460005-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 9, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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,C. ~- oney fo iRIOUMers
worked up over alleged dis- could
. Me Min ME bursal of Central Intelligence Agency funds' to wish.
Walter and Victor Reuther of the United Auto
Workers, and to agents of the AFL-CIO, covers
no legitimate controversy. It seems no reason to
point a finger of bony indignation at the CIA.
While It's true the Reuthers have strong
socialistic tendencies, there Is' no evidence
the agency monies weren't used precisely for
the purpose the CIA intended-to counter
Communist unionization and Red labor sub-
se
.
version abroad.This seems nothing else but It becomes a little tiresome to watch a steady
sound intelligence work in the ideological war. i drum-fire directed at CIA, which cannot defend
The secrecy surroundirlig such itself, for doing what it is supposed to do.
operations may If it h
as made mistakes, and like every other
surprise some, but, no one should be so naive government agency it has, it should not be
to believe it could have been done any other smeared out of hand for Its fund. distribution
way. The furor sounds as if the recent reve- to obtain essential information it Is supposed
lations are being used to discredit CIA-4whirh to
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be exactly what pro-Communist elements
Reports that United States intelligence used
and profited from subsidies to various organi.
zations should shock no one. On the contrary,
knowledge of Communist undercover operations
in other lands is imperative to Washington
information and policy.
Only if such funds were misused would there
be onus, and a close watch is maintained on
CIA activities by the State Department, a com-
mitee of Congress and the White House It
lf
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