HOW CLOSELY WAS LEFTIST INSTITUTE TIED TO CIA?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700510006-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 11, 2006
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: February 24, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

,Approved For Release 20P ii,1081) : J -RDP75-0014
The current ~h ap confirms that
the CIA from 1961 till last.year
materially helped New York's
Institute for International Labor
Research, 'which had the
?sponsorship'of longtime Socialist
.leader Norman Thomas as its
'chief. recommendation t,) Latin
American leftists. It was
actually run by the Secretary-
his organization was a channel
vehemently denied it 'to me a
`, few years ago. But somebody
How Cosely
G11~s nsirr r
By VIRGINIA PREWETT president-elect, you had to "go
some of Bosch's oldest friends
revelation of the CIA's supp of
of a wide variety of politics ly
active organizations must be
those of people who have
consistently accused the U.S. of
supporting , only reactionary
forces in Latin America.
A' major difference arose at'
heavy gnwoure rwm pro- asbrv;=.
funds or whether be also guorillas, asked Bosch to crack ,.`
received CIA direction. For he . down on sim;ulas, organizations
has played a, key, role in the in his own country. Bosch re
The question of the CIA role
Volman-Bosch axis, while' hand-' !
leftist leadership, actually split
SIIIF TED SUPPORT
After Mr. 'Bosch became '.
Dominican president, the CIA
backed and. Volman-run New
York organization shifted its
economic support from', the,
Costa Rican school. to one
founded and run by Mr. Volman,; '
Volman-Bosch group at this
time moved considerably to the
left of the democratic-leftist
President Jose Figuerea of
~i n t e r n a t affairs of the fused, as he did later, on the
democratic , left in Latin
I_ grounds that the pro-e mTmu-,,".
Ii. America. nfsts had fought Trujillo's dicta- is
Mr.. Volman's relationship torship.
with -former President . Juan Bosch and Volman therm
zatiou channeled 'Funds: CIA packing, out witnout CIA
Indeed, 'when',.` Mr. Bosch with the knowledge, and consent
visited the U.S. y as. Dominican ' of the CIA?
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