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28 July 1976
DCI,
The Newspaper Guild, affiliated, r
with AFL-CIO, is a "white collar"
union. You will remember it under,
its old name, American Newspaper
Guild, which was founded in 1933 and10;',///
changed its name in 1972. It engages
in all of the usual union activities
including organizing,collective
bargaining,and propaganda. You may
also remember that the Guild recently
emerged as the winner over the
independent Washington Newspaper
Union in the NLRB election to determine
which organization should be the
bargaining agent for Washington Post
employees.
Suggest that no response is
necessary to the Guild's transmittal
of their annual convention resolution.
Andrew T. Falkiewicz
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EWSPAPER
U1LD1125 FIFTEENTH STREET,'N.W., ROOM 635, WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005 202/296-2990
July 21, 1976
George Bush, Director
Central Intelligence Agency
McLean, Virginia
Dear Mr. Bush:
The enclosed resolution concerning CIA use of journalists was passed
unanimously by The Newspaper Guild's recent convention in Washington, D.C.
Since then, the CIA has said that no reporter affiliated with a U.S.
newspaper would be "hired" for any purpose by the agency. Unresolved,
however, is the matter of naming those news executives without whose
co-operation the initial transgressions could not so easily have been
made.
The Newspaper Guild represents 40,000 news and commercial department
employes of newspapers, news services, magazines and related media in
the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.
CAP:h1c
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Enc.
Sincerely,
Charles A. Perlik, Jr.
President
Affiliated with American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, Canadian Labour Congress, International Federation of Journalists
VICE PRESIDENTS AT LARGE
INTERNATIONAL CHAIRPERSON: BARNEY PETERSON, San Francisco-Oakland JOHN J. BREED, Boston JAMES A. McGILL, Gary
LOUIS M. CALVERT, San Jose DAVID M. MULCAHY, New York
HARRY S. CULVER, Wire Service Guild DOROTHY M. GAIN, Cleveland
PRESIDENT; CHARLES A. PERLIK, JR. REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENTS
, EUGENE R. JONES Greater ,Philadelphia Mcrlion 4 Vacant)
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CIA USE OF THE NEWS MEDIA
;
The Central Intelligence Agency's use--and-abuse--of the press may not be the most
heinous of its activities, but it is certainly one of those most subversive of a
free and respected press.
Recent reports of the House and Senate Intelligence committees and the Rockefeller
Commission have verified the CIA's use of U.S. reporters, news executives and news
organizations for clandestine purposes. This practice undermines the integrity of
the press and encourages distrust of all reporters.
The CIA has announced it will not enter into any future paid or contractual
relationships with any accredited news correspondent and will end existing relation-
ships "as soon as feasible." But it has declined to end the use of freelancers and
stringers, despite official requests from organizations such as tha Fund for
Investigative Journalism.
The CIA's use of journalists as informants, if not agents, has resulted in a hue
and cry for the disclosure of those journalists' names. But there has been little
outcry for the names of the news executives largely responsible for these relation-
ships with the CIA, despite revelations that have implicated high officials of such
companies as the New York Times and CBS in cooperative arrangements with the agency.
One source quoted by columnist Nat Hentoff as a person involved in the recruitment
of reporters for the CIA said that, in his experience, "in every case in which we
had a special arrangement with a reporter, management knew about it."
The incongruity of the situation was highlighted by CBS newsman Daniel Schorr, who
said that "to focus on the names of newspersons and employes and not the institu-
tional arrangements (and)...the high executives, still unknown,. who made it
possible" is "a red herring that serves the bosses very well."
,The Convention joins other news organizations in demanding that the CIA halt imme-
diately the use of all journalists, including freelancers and stringers, as informants,
and deplores.the use of press credentials by CIA agents. It recommends that, at the
same time, the Convention demand that the CIA disclose the names of all news organ-
izations and 0.',:ekitiVO:; who bear the responsibility of having cooperated in such an
improper use of newspersons,'as a means of inhibiting any future inclination to
permit misuse of the press.
Adopted by the 43rd Annual Convention
of The Newspaper Guild, in session,
June 28-July 2, 1976, Shoreham Americana
Hotel, Washington, D.C.
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Gene Wilson
Information and Privacy Act
Coordinator
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C. 20505
Dear Mr. Wilson:
ROOM 835, WASHINGTON, D. C. 20005 202/296-2990
March 22, 1978
This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act as amended (5 U.S.C. 552).
I am writing as president of The Newspaper Guild to request a copy of any and all
documents in your files on The Newspaper Guild, including any under its former
name, the American Newspaper Guild.
If you determine that any portions of these documents are exempt from release
under the Act, please inform me what exemption you believe covers the material
you withhold. Since the Act provides that "reasonably segregable" portions of
a file shall be released even if other parts of the file are withheld as exempt,
I am requesting that you provide us promptly with Such portions, whatever else
may be withhtld.
Please notify us of any search fees or reproduction fees you may charge us under
this request. A..1.km igwes.
CAP:sps
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Sincerely,
Charles A. Perlik, Jr.
President
Affiliated with American Federation'of LaLlanU4igress of Industrial Organizations, Canadian Labour Congress, International Federation of Journalists
VICE PRESIDENTS AT LARGE
ELWOOD B. BIGELOW, Portland DAVID M. MULCAHY, Now York
LOUIS M. CALVERT, Sen Jose DOROTHY M. SAIN, Cleveland
ROBERT C. HOLT, JR., St. LouM FLOYD TUCKER, San Francisco-Oakland
REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENTS
RICHARD V. SABATINI, Greater Philadelphia CARLA BECK, Great Falls
PAVE McCRACKEN, Memphis BETSY WADE, New York
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INTERNATIONAL CHAIRPERSON: HARRY S. CULVER, Wire Service Guild
PRESIDENT: CHARLES A. KRUK, JR.
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News media credibility needs attention
"Newspapers today are doing the best
job they've ever done?but when even our
friends lecture us on the subject of
fairness, we'd better listen:"
So believes Harold NV. Andersen, incom-
ing chairman of the American Newspaper
Publishers Association. Andersen, 50,
president of the Omaha World-Herald
Company, succeeds Davis Taylor, pub-
lisher of the Boston Globe, as head of the
ANPA, whose 1,100 members represent
more than 90 per cent of the daily news-
paper circulation in the United States.
Asked hiS opinion as to problems facing
the nation's newspapers, Andersen re-
plied:
"Any list, of course, would have to in-
clude increasing costs, especially news-
print costs, and in some cases an unrealis-
tic union attitude toward modern printing
methods by which we can offset some of
these escalating costs."
But along with these problems, with
which publishers traditionally have con-
tended, Andersen said the people who run
the nation's newspapers should give more
personal attention to the matter of credi-
bility.
Balance rwd fairness
"We must work harder at convincing
the public that we believe in balance and
fairness in reporting," said Andersen,
40th elected head of ANPA since its found-
ing in 1887.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the Uni-
versity of Nebraska, where he was editor
of the campus newspaper, Andersen spent
his first 15 newspaper years as a reporter
,and editor.
He is a trustee of the Freedom of In-
formation Center at the University of
Missouri, Columbia, a member of the Ne-
braska Press-Bar Committee of Free
Press and Fair Trial, member of the As-
sociated Press nominating committee, and
chairman of the ANPA postal committee.
Andersen noted that Vermont Royster,
former editor of the Wall Street Journal;
recently devoted a column in the Journal
to the subject of fairness. Royster quoted
Senator Sam Ervin as saying we must
engender in the public mind "the confi-
dence that the media are fair as well as
free."
Royster called Senator Ervin 's remarks
"ft splendid sermon" and concluded: "The
question is, how much of the congregation
is listening?"
Credibility threatened
Andersen said: "I'd suggest that all of
us in the news business--specifically in-
cluding newspaper and news magazine
publishers and presidents of press ser-
vices and broadcasting companies?had
better listen when friends of the 1st
Amendment, like Sam Ervin and Vermont
Boyster feel compelled to preach to us on
the suhject of fairness."
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Rather ? or the slant in Time magazine's
columns have a tendency to diminish the
credibility of all news media in some peo-
ple's eyes."
He said he believes that newspapers are
doing the best job ever and that more
people are praising the press for its in-
vestigative job on Watergate than are
criticizing that job as unfair.
"Everything from investigative report-
ing as in the Watergate disclosures, to
reader service features like the World-
Herald's Action Editor?never before
have we worked so hard or so effectively
to serve the public.
"I also believe that newspapers are
working diligently and more successfully
to assure fairness and balance and to give
access to a variety of viewpoints.
"I don't believe we have done a good
enough job of .explaining our efforts
toward fairness and balance. Most news-
papers are fairer and better balanced in
their news columns than they are general-
ly given credit for.
some that are unintentional but nonethe-
less damaging, of cases where we simply
haven't been fair and objective.
"We see too many examples where giv-
ing the other side consists of two or three
paragraphs well down toward the middle
or end of the story.
"Or we print a story which really
doesn't have a pressing time element and
we report that the person accused couldn't
be reached for comment. "Why not some-
times wait until the accused is available
for comment?" pr
Andersen said the ess is in anunusu-
al period.
"We're right there in the spotlight with
the actors in the Watergate drama," he
said. "The public is looking hard at us
perhaps harder than ever before, and we
are looking harder at ourselves."
"Out of this process, we have the op-
portunity to emerge better off than be-
fore?with both press and public con-
vinced of the continuing importance of
digging, determined reporting and, hope-
fully,-with press and at least most of the
Examples of it lam 401444004 that this kind of report.
media "because the actions of a Dan "However, we all see examples, including
a that
and objective."
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By BRIX BERT .. '.,;.. '. ..',. Mrs. Arthur Hays Sulzberger, 'oWner of the '?-:;
.,-.Times, ,and her wealth of WO million, to ? '. ..
, The editorial writer of . the -Guild.'? Re- ,..,-,,,?' pop million; ? to the CIA: or are ,they just ,
. porter,-organ of the ,American Newspaper.i:,',-; devoutadherents of imperialism? .
? ,Guild, related in .the Feb. 14 issue that he.';';',,:': : Or, take the officers of the. American ??,. ?
.:ifound it. impossible to write a parody, about:',:ewspaper Guild. To whom had they sold,
ii Lord Thomson,. head of the. Vhomson:pub-:',,,,their, souls when ' they took more than one.'...?,'-
'llishing empire in Britain. ?? ? ' ? . ? ?? ?:` ,? ', million dollars from the CIA for activities'...; ?
. It Is 'difficult to understand Why the in Latin America, Africa, and Asia?,'
,. .
' editor wanted to ? write , a , paeody . about:;.:?:'?;::. in Latin America, Africa, and Asia?
? Lord Thomson. He asks: , ? ? ? . ? . 1,;";,4.,...., ? Enough of Souls. Let's get back td Lord
"How can you parody a .man who tells. :''.Thomson.
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an interviewer . . . that 'I think I'd mort,-,...'1. ,The Guild Reporter editor is distressed .1,..''?-
: ,gage my soul' to ? buy New . York ??i:L, to find :that ,Lord Thomson said he was
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'Times?" . '? . ? , ,.::::%-buyihg U.S. 'newspapers because "That's.,'I'
I What's so strange about that? What U.8::5,?'''?;.where the money is"; that owning a televi- ?*!, - .
;publisher would not mortgage his soul to ???,'tsion station was "as good as a government -?,'?:?; '
: ,buy the New York Times? In fact, what...t.';`? 'license to print money." . .
?aLs. publisher's soul is not already mort-'''..: -What is so strange about that? News-,.?,'
??';: 'gaged to the Almighty Dollar? ? ? ,' ,,:,., paper Guild negotiators know when they ,;',
t...0r, take the New York Times reporters ?.`:!?','' enter contract talks with, the boss that he is
?who are in the task force whose job it is..1....?1:: interested in the newspaper because "that's ..'
,?. .;
' 1 Ito subvert individuals in 'the socialist,coun-,!where the money is." ? : .. )',''':'
!tries. To whom 'do_their souls_b_elongZ To .,".... The Guild Reporter, editor sums up -his.1,?',"
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":71--discoi ? ? ? ? ? , ' ?;?'? ..,?.? '
"Thomson ,.? t, ,. represents almost the,:.:.??
1....reductio ad absurdum of that breed of pub-;
1i41sher whose creed is .the profit sheet and..
,'.whose anthem. the ring of the cash
ter." . ? ? .? ? ' ' ??
regis-
But Thomson is not a'sPecial breed of
publisher. He is the publisher under capital-
,',ism, a .capitalist publisher. That is not said
in any derogatory sense; Under capitalism,
> publishing is capitalist; under socialism,1
4.pub1ishing is socialist. ? ? ,
What kind of creed?other than the "pro-1.
,,,, fit sheet"?does the GR editor expect Lord::,,
Thomson, or any other commercial.publish-im-
:? :
er, to espouse? What kind of anthem?other.'
than the ,"ring of the cash register"?does,-!.:.
;the GR editor expect the publisher to'?:.'"
sing? "This land is your land . . ? from i??;,.
California to the New York island," per-L.:,
haps?
Lord Thomson doesn't deserve a, parody.,
He needs understanding, as do'all his bro-
thers in sin, as an exploitet:. ? ?,.
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'Newspaper Guild Criticized I
, On Appeal for Federal Funds,
to Buflato Evening News 28,000 news media employs MI
MONTREAL, Aug. 2 ? Last the U. S., Canada and Puerto t
week's decision by the American Rico.
Newspaper Guild (AFL - coI, The cNru affiliate?formed i
to represent movie and TV em-
CDC) to seek funds for its inter- ployes?said of the ANG move:.
? national affairs program from "Up to now, the people and
U. S. government sources came English-language newspapers or
under fire here Tuesday by an this country have not reacted tol
affiliate of the Confederation of this concrete interference by at
,National Trade Unions (CNTU). foreign government in Canadian
The ANG, at its international union affairs."
convention in Ottawa, voted Most opposition within the
263-134 "to obtain a contractual ANG to the acceptance of gov-
, relationship whereby govern- ernment funds stemmed from
ment funds would be available the disclosure last February that
, to finance ANG international much of the money supporting
activities." It added: "The pre- the union's international affairs
? ferred relationship would be program reached it through
for a contract with the, Agency, foundations which' reportedly
for International Development were conduits for funds from
? (AID)." ?the 1.1.j....Cea
The gull represents some Agency
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Stirs Debate in Ottawa
NEWSPAPER GUILD
SEEKS A.I.D. FUNDS
of C.I.A. Links
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ng-Baltimore Newspaper Guild
;aid the real issue "is whether
he American Newspaper Guild
is to be an arm of the foreign
policy of the United States."
He said the work of
the Agency for International
Development was to carry out
the foreign policy of the United
States.
The guild's resolutions com-
mittee, he added, was told this
week by the men who ran the
original program?Richard
Davis and John Sloan?that the
two suspected "from the be-
ginning" that the money came
from the C.I.A. They had
waited for the C.I.A. to exert
pressure, but this never came.
Daniel McLaughlin, a region-
al vice president from North
Jersey, said many delegates
were "destroying characters and
repbtations" .of guild .leaders
with their"innuenclos?and half-
' OTTAWA, July 28 (AP)?
Delegates to the American
11,ewspaper Guild convention
,diticized alternately the Cen-
!tral Intelligence Agency and
each other last night before
voting 2 to I to seek a link
with another United States
Government agency. The key
vote was 263-134.
The volume and the heat of
the exchanges exceeded any-
thing in the week-long conven-
tion, which ended today.
The guild represents 35,000
news media employes in the
United States, Canada and
Puerto Rico.
It was reported six months
ago to have been accepting aid
for its international affairs pro-
gram from foundations sup-
v ported by the C.I.A. The guild
investigated and found the
foundations' explanations un-
satisfactory, and severed its
links with them.
The delegates were asked
last night to authorize their,
.officers to seek new fund
'sources for the international
program, particularly from the
United States Agency for In-
terAi,tional Development.
A Hot Debate
The proposal touched off an
uproar.
David Schick of Philadelphia
compared the criticism of the
United States Government and
the State Department with
Communist attacks at the
United Nations on the United
States.
Debate centered on a minor-
ity committee report recom-
mending that no Government
funds be used for the interna-
tional program.
Irving Kreisman of Madison,
Wis., said first reports of a
C.I.A.-guild link "burst like a
bomb." He advocated dropping
the program unless funds could
be found from private sources.
A Toronto delegate said the
C.I.A. association raised a con-
flict between citizenship and
membership Wan int4rnational
union.
J. V. Reistrup of the. Wash-
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Socclai to The New York nrneS
DETROIT, July 19 ? The
Newspaper Guild of Detroit has
. instructed its delegates to the
American Newspaper Guild's an
nual convention in Ottawa next
week to back resolutions criti-
cizing the national officers for
accepting money from the Cer-
tral Intelligence Agency.
The national guild accepted
SI-million for its international
? activities program, the Detroit
local said, from five foundations
' identified as conduits for the
intelligence agency.
The Detroit Guild set up a
committee to investigate the
matter. But the committee re-
ported that "olzr best efforts,
repeatedly made.; have failed to
elicit specific afiswers to spe-
cific questions from the Ameri-
can Newspaper Guild regarding
the extensive financing of the
? A.N.G.'s international \ affairs
: program."
- "The questions were largely
ignored or answered vaguely
and not responsively," the re-
port said. "This had the aspects
. of a runaround."
The Detroit delegates Were
\ instructed to criticize the
'na-
tional officers next week for
not suspecting the C.I.A. as the
source of funds, not protecting
the union from valid criticism
: and not answering the Detroit
Guild's specific questions.
A guild plan to accept pri-
vate or open Government funds
to continue its international ac-
' tivities program also was criti-
cized. The , Detroit local. said
' oniy. funds from labor' sources
.iould be accented,:
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erally succeeded in avoiding such ednfrontations is what
the consensus a._ -4's arc really all about. Perhaps the
chapter of hi e?e , k". a new and unlovely
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(Inc of the reasolis the 1.).fi, idlers for...lh .nillitary
writ:1100w% ;Around the rifihe i% dig! preservation of free.
dom. A glanee at the newspaperli suggests launethilig
J5 than success. Do these sneak:his provetitle, viilhuit
was always ma: ailed for? Not necessarily, hey do dem '
onstrate that freedom doesn't sprout !amply 'because the
Communists were kept Out and that the :United States
ought to make its claims .with a lijire more modesty:
In Guatemala, "some 35 persims have been assas-
sinated by rightist paramilitary gangs since April I,"
according to the New Yin k li#iiit ill May I I. ()ie of
licial of the (itiateniala City government was kidmipped
and tortured; the home of another was marliine-gumied
twice. Fifty trade linion leaders, professional men and
shidents arc marked for death hi tight-wing publications:
'I he t;icitenellan bishops have isteed pashe al letter
ruotesting the. "growing ' ' ? " thev
say, "there are more widows and orpiums, inno.,....ht vic-
tims of mysterious struggles nni.t./? . .,., .,.. torn
violently rroin i!,.. ...., by ? unidentified kiklooppors,
or they ie. inutility nalideled,. deli bodies uppealag
Lila' with signs of torture and mutilation."
to South Korea, ob!iCi'Vel'; hailed he teeent eleetion
of President ("hung 1.1ye Pail, as relatively free, limediately lifter the.ele.i:lioa., ihiCe citilkliihtCS Whit ran i?eAMI
' Pat k were attested..
In the Dominic-an Iteleiblic, Oleic is more "evidetive
of moitio lug lc' ioris",,- ,,,..,.?td,,,,,, to the t 701,6,01 seicnee
....Alimiripr ( ntly 131 I ss o nwittliors or the patty of Juan
ilcii4li welt: tccconly lound shot to dcath. Ono of tlit?in
wits a'Stnito Dolunwo city councilor,
In South-Vietnani, Marshal Ky frankly admitted that
the military would move against any victor in the corning
prosidem411 election who was not to his liking, (Ky him-
self is, of course, a eandii.t,
ire I -If he is a Communist
a neutralist, I
or if he is m I a eo,IN
n' , to light him militarily.
In any democratic country you have the right to disagree
e:iith the views of otheis," Ky explained. Press censorship,
he added, would (aquiline during the election campaign.
In Greeee , ,'. \yell. 'airry about that
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Several episodes in recent months have raised the eter-
nal problem of good ends and had means,
Not many people, even among the right-wing claque
that has belatedly rallied to his support, are much dis-
tressed that Senator 'Dimas J. Dodd of Conneeticut has
been exposed as a tallier shabby ?ioliticiari who has been
able to live beyiiral his means by n4'/4!IIII1r, tti prirCeCtifi
polilical fund-raiking dinner% It, inivatc iisc Hut
many who have no sympathy for Dodd are &meshed by
the tact that his operations became public knowledge only
because four former employees copied thousatals of let-
ters and documents in his files and turned the oipies over
to columnists Drew Pearson and lack Anderson. The
good end that these ex-employees had in view cannot
justify their theft of his papers, it is argued. "the ex-em-
pkiyetA counter with the arguments that they had no hope
tit private gain :Old Ilan whet, they became convinced of
Dodd's misconduct, their highest duty was not to Itint
but the public which was paying their salaries.
My own view ifi that they were right in what they did.
mem or these episodes has to ht i t,iuuiuhtirul in its bpi:tint
factind context, A rarintrvssional emphiyce who lee, cee
dello;or wrolipdobip, by or Congress has nut
especially difficult time knowieg how to plocecd. Hy con
-
Imo, nit employee Iii private business ean always emit-
plain to the local district attorney. The latter, if we
assume that he is honest, will then conduct a criminal
investigation in the regular way without expecting the
employee to steal documents to prove the case or other-
wise compromise himself. Similarly, a federal employee
in one of the executive departments can, as a last resort.
report wiongiliiine, to a meniliel iii colwro,;,,,
But eonittes,iiim.d employee not have these clear
options. If he complanis to the Justice. Department, he
has to 1;11,e into account the realistic possibility that the
Department may he reluctant to investigate it member
of Congress. That is particularly true when, as in the
Dodd case, the offending senator is a member of the Ad-
ministration party and a close personal and political
fliend of the President. (Dodd, it will be recalled, was
the only prominent New Faigland politivian to support
Johiram tiepins' John Kennedy at the PPM conventica0
do not with to confuse the case by seeming, to hint that
I.yndoo Johnson's Justice Department \you'd not have.
investigated Senator Dodd, I am pointing out that the
ex.employk conk' quite reasonably rear Mat infitie0 .
Depaitmem would not net,
'I he ex.employees, unlike laireimeritut in the executive
ageocien, could not mum to inemberri of Congres1 and
hope for tt Nympattleile hearing. liversone knows that
t'emononweal; 3011
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mcildvrs or the I louse and Senate are notoriously relue-
tam 10 investigate the llairs of a colleague,
I '4141er I) 4.IF 1101,110114:0:i, 1hr il1'1:11 1111.111A 10 1 IR'.
111VY'i,II .'i, 1114' 141 pp, (o... or (lit'
tun,:lials a. a ro.., ',icy; us II 110V1.. and II
WalCIR10); (l11 iillIC1,11 lot)1457C1', FM. 111111 thirty years,
1)rew Pearson has ailed 415 a kind of unoilicial ombuck-
mon ventilating scandals and exposing wrongs. Ile gets
much of his information from government and congres-
sional employees. who know he is fearless in printing in-
formation that powerful people would like to keep hidden.
My experience as a reporter in Washington suggests
to me that most scandals would never be uncovered ex-
cept by irregular methods. Someone usually has to breach
a confidence of some sort to get a case started; the mo-
tives vary from pure patriotism and indignation at cor-
ruption h) vengeance or the desire to sell infomation
for lIl1IlleV '1'Iw motives ale dilleiene lint Iln4 tortInal
thually 1,01nowlial iiregoloc, It foam 141141111111
114411 III mord 111141 144,4 1,..ra114114 140 tine
procesq procodine,; ompurctl 111111 p.stico
1-414.11 in preparing a ease for trial, few scandals would get
exposed.
i? not Inyond human ingonuity gcloi?g an in?titu-
tion, that would make such irregular methods unneces-
sary, at least for congressional employees. Congress could
establish an independent commission, made up perhaps
of three or live retired judges, which would have its own
staff to receive complaints and conduct inquiries. Em-
ployees and ordinary citizens would have confidence in
an institution that was outside the congressional power
sti nenne, At the same time, congressmen V/4 111th be spitted
the embarrassment of investigating one :mother
however. ieseas 41,41014,114Hr any antlhaity
ovei 114, im'4nhei:4 Men 4.44114144. i in an onts141,-
body. It clings instead Vildl!1 ltadition (if
lIt Ii 111W 111114) It111 ilds is 11111 sound procedure be-
eatist.? Congress is unique among parliaments. 'I hi !louse
of C'ommons and the French Notional Assembly (at least
in pre-Ciaullist days) delegated executive powcr to a
Committee of its Own members, i.e.. the cabinet. Hut
under the American constitution where the executive and
legislative powers arc supposed to be compartmentalized,
Comness has developed an elaborate and powerful com-
mittee system to oversee, investigote 411111 conool the
spending of the executive. Under tile congressioaal Ry%
tow, ciminiincc 1111111111111 and monihers 1ive 4111
lIlillily 10 ;11111 1 1111' :101.0dinr It piii?eitimein ['limey, OIL'
liiIIttIli)1 (it I 11114:1 14, and nie plairmi goveiniiient no,
:donations 11111 is ma matched Ily inemhias 411 Ii:'/ other
parliament. 1 hat is why conflicts of interest, imputations
of corruption, NMI COdel; of C011(1(10 111T much more the
subject of interest in Washington than they are in Lon-
don. And that is why, in my opinion, Congress ought to
protect itself by delegating authority to an outside body.
The several controversies over the role of the Central
Intelligence Agency in financing private organizations
olso raise this prol
IA.111 of means and ends. As the Com-
mi-inwro/ commented editorially when tile CIA's sub?
iiiganiiations \vete ileiehried
ihim ji IN 14 tic! 14111, 111/11?
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L1CVd0pCd 10 11111111CC 11WN1' IICIIV101.4.,Ve1 it t104't not
to me that the Truman and 1'15e1111 41i.et ..tilmituqrations
had much choice except to use the CIA if Communist
activities among students, intellectuals, and labor unions
were to be countered effectively in the late '40s and early
'50s. Thk wa.s. the period when Senator Joe McCarthy,
with the help of Roy Cohn and David Schine, was busy
in the Voice of America and United States
Information Service libraries abroad. Even worse, it was
a time when Senator l'at McCarron was chairman of the
Senate Appropriations Subcommittee controlling the
rhAliiIIHRI11 budget,
I lie Nlet 'al rang mill 1V1k .10111V11 V6011141.1101 0111.'1 1110 1111.
.1)VI'l 111111111'1 1.11C1111111p, 1/1111111: 101111.1 111 !10111,01-1 11 4111111'111
11,"11Wid, 11 1101:M1141 i111.1,' 1110011, Or 11 14111110W niagazint)
under non-Comnitinist control !inch as Enc,,unter. fr the
United States was to hold its own in the cold war, the (
pOlicynliOceI-5htI rig PitcrnatiYP gIC.Ccpt to 115e tile cf.A.
or some comparable clandestine agency. Moreover, the
CIA displayed remarkably sound political judgment in
investing in private organizations. It recognized that lib-
erals and radicals, not reactionaries, offer the more
ef-
fective competition to (1.'ommunists. (I am not suggesting ;
that the CIA never subsidizes reactionaries, but I am say-
ing that an agency that underwrites free trade unions or
it magaz.ine of the quality of Et:co/niter deserves sorne
credit for political ,sophisticati(In.) I fail tal shale the in-
ii 1l41It 11(14 t1414t sveni-i to be so widesposul aliont the (IA's
activities. I do not set', ho' example, lam; American
Newhpoper (Mild has been comproinine41 because it joined
in a govt.!' ninent-intanced program to nail trade union
leaders and newspapermen from Latin America. Where
the money comes from is not always the controlling con- 1
sideration. Stephen Spender was not tainted while editing ;
Encounter by the fact that the money for the magazine
Caine, unbeknownst to him, from the CIA. After all,
private philanthropists sometimes make their fortunes in
morally dubious ways. It would seem more to the point
to ask for what purpose the money was to he spent than ;
Micro it canw from.
I iffispert that the editors of Ramparts, who ffist bloke
the clA 111,11 4, slum' Ihey ale mil wally !
4,4,4 411441111 1(4?41 II It 1114! oilfield 111-1!1011/1114011'i 111111 11111 011110
"/IIIIII'l 1" 1' 401/V1'10AI 1'10111 011.11 1101 Mal (111
1111.14;Ii 1114 CVIIICIRT that they llliV been. Iltit
Ramparts
IS dishabcd because these inAitimons spent
the CIA money for an added objective of whidi the edi-
torii of Banipiirts disapprove: 'to combat Communig in-
fluence abroad and to advance the interests Of Ameriean I; '-
foreign policy. - WILLIAM V. St4o.,,INON4
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abor loiacors
..:,,TiithC-ovemmentV\-Tork
Said to Be Under Study
AFL-CIO Says Johnson Asked
Justice Agency to Investigate!
If Orders Should Be Halted
By a WALL STREET 'JOURNAL Staff Reporter
WASHINGTON?AFL-CIO President George
.1Meany reported to the labor federation's ex-
ecutive council that President Johnson has
Iasked the Justice Department to investigate
whether the Government ought to stop doing
business with concerns that persistently vie-.
late Federal labor laws.
ceived a "very sympathetic hearing from the
President" at a White House meeting on the
issue in late March. Mr. Johnson "asked the
Attorney General to look into the situation"
and report back, said the federation spokes-
man, reporting on the closed meeting of ,the
executive council yesterday.
An AFL-CIO spokesman said a committee
of union leaders headed by Mr. Meany re-
The Justice Department declined to com-
ment on the AFL-CIO report.
The council at its winter meeting last Feb-
ruary adopted a resolution calling on the A&
ministration to stop awarding Government con-
tracts to what it termed "lawbreakers." The
council noted that the Government, under an
-.a;xecutive order, can cancel Federal contracts
of concerns that practice racial discrimina-
tion in employment practices, and it asked
that the same sanction be applied to con-
tractors who discriminate against employes
who engage in union activities.
Obvious Target
? The obvious target of the AFL-CIO move is
1. P. Stevens & Co., the big textile maker and
a large Government contractor, which the Na-
tional Labor Relations Board twice has found
guilty of what the NLRB called "massive"
violations of labor laws. S. P. Stevens is fLp-
the NLRB decisions in the courts. Two
ether cases against J. P. Stevens are awaiting
board rulings.
In its meeting with Mr. Johnson, the union
c,-,ramittee also discussed possible Government
?:eLion to limit or halt the use of tax-exempt
..-,dustrial revenue bonds to finance private fac-
tory-building, the AFL- CIO spokesman
reported.. The AFL-CIO contends that state-or
municipal-bond financing of such corporate
I moves encourages factory relocations that cot
many workers their jobs and eften move jobs
from a heavily unionized area to a largely
nonunion region. In addition, the practice re-
- stilts in loss of Federal tax revenue and con-
stitutes a "loophole" in the tax laws, the labor
, federation's officials contend.
, Treasury Secretary Fowler and oti.er rank-
ing Treasury officials have shar)ly criticized :
I*ndustrial-bond financing of private-plant con-
: struction. It is generally -expected that Via .
President's tax-reform message to Congress,
, due sometime later this year, will. propose re-
striating or removing the tax-exempt status of '
indutarial revenue bonds.
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In other action yesterday, the AFL-CIO
. executive council accepted the resignation of
ccorge Burden, former president of the United
- Rubber Workers Union, who was defeated in
, his reelection bid last year, Mr. Burdon's scat
on the 29-man council is expected to be filed
- at a subsequent meeting this week, perhaps
today. Current speculation on Mr. Burden's
succsesor centers on Max Greenberg, presi-
dent of the Retail, Wholesale and Department
Store Union. ?
Mr. Meany spent nearly all of a half-hour
:news conference yesterday reiterating earlier
denials that the AFL-CIO ever acted as a
funnel for central Intelligence Agency funds
to fight Communist influence in labor unions
abroad. "As far as I know," said Mr. Meany,
"the AFL during my term as secretary-
treasurer and president, and the AFL-CIO
during my' term as president, have never re-
ceived any CIA money directly or indirectly
, for any activity."
Mr. Meany reported that the executive
council had decided to provide "interim fi-
nancing" for international activities of the
6,merican Newspaper Guild, an AFL-CIO af-
filiate. The guild recently severed its rela-
tionships with private foundations that it sus-
pected were conduits for CIA money. To make
I up for the lost foundation grants, the AFL-
! CIO will provide the guild with $27,000 to
carry out international programa for Jour-
nalists , abroad at least until Aug. 1, Mr.
Meany said. The guild, he said, will look for
?' other methods Of financing its overseas ac-
tivities.
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- Workers ill Over the world; "es- c-"-1
, ?Following the exposures, as a ?i
' GEORGE. MOItRIS'S new !
?-pecially ? in Latin America and t. :
' book, "The CIA and American ? Apparently, those CIA I wave Guild; of angpt ',srpread' in the ?
??Apparently, those
k : s ? chapters,' the Guild .Re- -
.. Labor" ?was released last Fri-
I
1 -nanced 'activities had priority I
*porter ?(Feb.. 24) ' carried a long
?das- by Internationa u s -''over the 'organization of ons .1;
' ?I rblihers r milli
' ;? (Paper $1.25) Morris, ? who has ... of. public ' workers not in unions.. ? reporty a -
.1 fairs director -Richard ?P. Davis
?-??..been for many years the -labor ."?;.
' ....editor of The Worker, ha., more .? 'r .in this countrY.'s International He assured ? the ?? inernbers that.
The their money ,wak -untouched, be-
th 1
:?''. an three decades of experi-..? I-
...rederation - of Petroleum and ,
cause all salaries and, exPendi;
r.'-ence as 'reporter and cornmenta.,
., . .,...... ,.; quarters in Denver, was used
.1.Chemical Workers, with head-
, : .
' tures of his 'department.were'
, ';?
.. l'. tor on. the '"American ? labor
....covered by ' "'foundation grants."
.a)noienient.' .. ? ?.? ? ? ? ."; similarly as a cover for CIA at -
'I ?This, of Course' : means - CIE.'
..'..;.-. Below are excerpts ' from a .? .? .
, .tivity. It was headedy .? ;
,a; gr. nts.- ' -.? ' . ... ... . ? ..*. 7..
.e.. chapter of Morris's book, which ?
"'Knight until 1965, when he re-, .
Another union that showed ex?
'. we feel will be of particular in-
:' tired ' from the presidencies of ;
.? traordinary interest in world ac.?qerest.to our readers., - ? . ? '.-', .: .
,..., ....., .? * ? 7:?. r........ , . , ft! both the International Federa-,
1.*tivities is the Retail Clerks 'In.
? 'AS THE NSA exposure. ? lien and the International 0i1,1:.
ternational Association; its presi:-'
. .. ?.?'' Chemical and Atomic Workers,. dent.
. .Jame!.......Su?iffrtdg,.. ,e,...1! a! .
. ?sivas - featured ''ln. blazing ',. (AFL-CIO). An AFL-CIO vice- .,.._
president. of. the AFL-CIO
)leadlilleS, , Victor Reuther , .. president until his retirement; r, vice_
told 'the press, there is ft - ' ? Knight bed long been-involved in tand , a :. ve? ...
ry close' ,'? ;?friend .?of . , ...
, ,10.t. bigger story in the CIA's ' Latin .Americon cornmittees and i
.'.' projects of the 'federation. Dur-?,aorprise
IVIeony... Su aridge, , too, profes-sect ? !'-
? at . the. ? disclosure that !.
,..,.. financial and other connections:. '"ing Knight's tenure, It was dia? 'the sarne'vGranary Fund Which
',,,with? the -A,FL-CIO than with ', : closed-, the ICFI'll's affiliate re-.. funneled CIA funds to ,NSA, the
: students.- . . . I did my best to:. ,:.ceisfed ;a monthly sUbsidX of Newspaper .Guild and other or- ?
try to lift the lid on it And ' ganizationi, .. gave ? .1,lie.- RCIA
)25,000 from a OA conduit, the. ,
.."-.iome day it will come out" (Nevr'. ' Andrew Hamilton Foundation, $38,000 in 1965 ? to mention one ?????;'?;;.:.?
. York Post, Feb 16, 1967). Within " :.,;th _ a _ Philadelphia address... item that. came. to . light. ?The
..' 7:tay.s many of these connections:. other ? foundations fronting for RCIA, ?orie . of America's most
..ctwere. revealed. The following is'-', the CIA. channeled more hun- i, bureaucratically run unions, had
?:...41' . sumPilarY of " the ,.-revelations..;.-dreda of thousands of dollars to ..:. ,two . of . its officials' among the
; ..,.,..-concerning the trade unions and ..:Knight's organization (Washing- ...1;,1 corps bf Arr.,,cio advisers who ? - At
: i'.;.:Ihe' CIA; as they' were reported ton I-ton I'ost, ..Feb. 23). .- . ? -- ? .,' .jlcame to guide. the 'Guyanese to
'.....'-iftiring the last ' two Weeks ' of 7 .:i., .:,? .,7....,.., . ... ..... .7.."freedom.". Among them was ,
February 1967. In general, these'. .., _ ... , ,..: . , a ''I???George P. O'Keefe, head Of the -
-
., .tacti. ' SUbstantiate or _enlarge:: '-' THE AMERICAN-Newspaper t". international affairs. department ..
..',' Won charges previously made, '?,? Guild, one /of the AFL-CIO's ? .'of Suffridge's union. The RCIA
and 'which are analyzed -,,
. and dis''..;:. smallest tmions, appeared to be : . used the ICFTU,'s International' '
'
,- .-.'-cussed in this book. ' ' ... the recipient of the largest stuns . Federation of Clerical and?Tech- ? ??
,14.1 ? With two CIA agents in charge.; from CIA 'dummy
foundations. nical EmployeS as its instrument
::7. Of its international affairs de- 1/Charles Perlik, secretary-treas- for ? operetions in other lands. ? '
';:.:partment, the American Feder- urer at the Guild, admitted . re- .. r?:,. ; Still another trade secretariat ?
? ,..1` 7 ation" Of State, County and Mu- ceiving $1,004,000 within three ' , Of the. TUTU,. the International .'';''or
riicipal Employes (AFL-CIO).' ?years fromi several .funds iden- ,' ''Association of Food and Allied
received at least $60,000' annu- ?:_ted as CIA channels. The pr-' ? 4.7orkers?Associations ,?with head-
any
. :,' ??
:,.ally to finance its work, in Latin quarters ? whose ' iv
. ,
.1 ,*?. America, from perhaps as early ' .. work was
???wa:s1-.. quarters:in Geneva, was used
. . t.'.'as 1958 until 1964. In that last' financed by the CIA. is 'known as.' -,:a cover for CIA agents, accord- -?
?? c7. . year Jerry Wurf defeated the in- ., the Inter-American ? Federation ../..:ing ? to Juul 'E. Poulson,. general ? :
1.;curribent president of the union,.. of Working N ,..orseinicreetsary; Feb.
thant)b.Odpyou(rsoewn Ycoornt v., :,,
?`-' Atriold Zander, ousted ,the two,: ganizations' of"rwsPahlePehrm.Peenrlsik?2.1;v,' ?;
..
4 CIA men and cut relations.'with'V Co-chairman. Like many others ; .
. . mflinrmeedinVonictothsr.eRareulitherecs charge of
,
of
?-the 'agency.- As ? 'Zander himself-, caught in the CIA's .web, Perlik? denied by' the
I ? revealed ?,,,,_ i profess,ed surprise when the .1 'AFL-CIO Execu-
- 1.? 23), the union's international.de- .
(Washington rost, r..u., ?1 source of the funds was exposed. 1:-tive Council in August 1966)a that
?`
And like others, he claimed that' :-.1eiglit Men in'Panania and one in .
? '(partment was for six years a' ,
? t
i cover for/ CIA. operations . in ' irrespective . of the source of the) of
; posed, as representa- ? ;
!funds, ? the work of the.- Guild , %Ives. or his OnganizatiOn,' al- . .
0 - ! British Guiana (now GUyana),.
' and had un active hand in the mainly iri Latin America, but
:.! also in Asia and Africa, through .0 ik. though' r they. were 'unknown In 1 ...
headquarters.. These men, ' added j ' ? . , ? ?
campaign of rioting and sabotage ;the' parent' International Feder- .J 'PoulsOni were' taking orders from '
i :against the Jagan government.
'The AYSCI1VIE also spent CIA ...!.
ati.son 'Of 'Journalists in -Emmet! ::,' l'AndirecdiTorsr..-"...edMc..Le. lailatinnt... AmArli-ericaftel?
le money in the name of the Public( was '"independent" .and in. no ., ?iafftursi pocking upder.LoVedon
influenced?by tha,q1A:.:;:.i....k., ,?.. ..!.. -:..? ,,,...,.
' Services Interrtationa, an tarry,
,affiliate with 'headquarters. ,_..,..,,.......,.___:?..:.?.._..,....._____....__.,_ .: . ,,,
. ; in ; . - - - ?
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London, as 'Zander claimed, for .1 ? . .',i-',:..
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WASHINGTON ? The American Newspaper Guild says thati
It will immediately sever all ties with three foundations thatf,
were reported to be conduits 'for Central Intelligence- Agency 1.
funds. The Guild said it would. seek to nrirfnue its internationall
affairs program through support from. other private sources
!that. are free from CIA taint as well as through 'open gov
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( Guild Cuts CIA Links,
VVai-4:New Aid Agency
epsr sorori
rwmoibigino
WASHINGTON --- The Amer i
ran Newspaper (hilld said yes-
terday Hint it would innnerlInfr-
ly sever nil Iles with liner folio-
flifilotis reported /n be corultiils
,for Central Intelligenre Agency
The guild said It would reel;
to continue its inlernatIonal af- s Whoqr, (Mari
'fairs program through suppori rini aid ended bY 1961- -delfi -
from other private sources iirn theAtiswer In Ibis titles
ore free from CIA faint as well
LOA I
II raid a guild inquiry Into the
ultimate source of $1.fratee0 Hurl
he union linri tecriverl since
I ar fr) conittict if Is overseas
arlivifirs hail ''shed nn light" on
the CIA's involvement,
Mil Mr boat d felt Ihat "it is
Inconceivable (hat Mr trustees
for tlin Mire foundations?as
it
as tivrough open government
laid.
I A statement by the guild's 15-
member International ? Execu-
tive Board said the group "does ,
levy flip nilqgivings, doutyls and
not delude Itself Into thinking li
that things can go on as before, 5rTcIcirrli5 genet alert by the rii
dii"
as though nothing had happen-
C affair,
ed." I The dire" CIA linked founild
lions with whom the gitilr; e, ill
on longer deal are the Warden
Tiust of Cleveland, the Chesa
ppake Foundation of I fall lino, p
and the Prowl Melt Foundation
qf colimilnigi (thin. Thy Ivo
!hal had previously funded lin'
piiild's polviiips abroad are Ihr
co anary Food of Boston and Ihr
Androw ilamillon Fund of Phil
a dol pliin.
Tho guild's overseas work
hr; en chanirrled Ihrorieli Ilie
I Flirt nal moot rrrlera lion of
low nali.:Is in Brussels and the
liiir, national A Inerican irerlrr-
Minn of 1Vorking Newspaper-
; tr'll's organizations hi Panama
.I city.
.,
' Tim board sold the work
?Iiiiiiid continue thromdi the
trot inn of a riiin:;?i-pubile lode-
Imo-kit hotly, financed by Con-
re's, to utile!) private groups
'AI ? oidd apply for aid In ovr.tSeas
. P;fil II
PA
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1.inurspansive replier: from Mr
linstres, the hoard said, "con t
ii rotc' ci lea Vf? a Shadow pyri
otir international affairs pro-
gram nod dors nothing In re
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By CA Ror
Rosensto& Defends Programs
To Help Foreign Journalists
By Tony Brennn
: Arthur Rosenstock, president
,of the American Newspaper
:Guild, declared himself to be
:"shocked and amazed" at the
-implications being drawn from
the allegation that the'tuild has
been engaged in a broad inter-
national program since 1960
;through a subsidy of nearly $1-
million supplied by the Central
Intelligence Agency.
Rosenstock told E&P the
whole story was now being used
"to blacken the name of the
Guild which has done a fine job
.with its international program,"
.and was providing a "field-day
for muck-rakers and character
'assassins."
He took particular exception
:to columns written by Pete
'Hamill in the New York Post
1? the newspaper where Rosen-
stock works as a librarian ?
and by Jimmy Breslin in the
,World Journal Tribune.
(Hamill Wrote: "Arthur Ros-
"enstock, president of the Guild,
says that he knows nothing of
the CIA's involvement. If that
is true, he should resign im-
mediately . . ." Breslin charged
the Guild with having "been
caught running the most out-.
, right red-light house the news-
paper business ever has seen.")
. "Such comments typify, the ir-
responsible conclusions that are
being drawn from this still un-
proven allegation of CIA money
. being used to finance our over-
. 3eas ' operations," said Rosen-
stock. "Let me tell you ? and
I can't say it strongly enough
-- as president of the. Guild I
can say categorically, that there
was no indication that the foun-
dation grants for Latin Amer-
ican programs and other over-
seas operations came from the
CIA. And, what's more, anyone
who tries to suggest that such
money was used to influence, to
.control or to make us influence
foreign newsmen, is utterly
wrong . . ."
The Guild's president contin-
ued: "I have attended many
overseas congresses and meet-
ings. Their sole and entire pur-
pose was to help teach foreign
journalists the fundamentals of
their crafts and to help them
form unions to better their
working conditions. It is ridicu-
lous to suggest otherwise.
"When we set up our inter-
national program in 1960 we
had plenty of experience of
political activity within our own
union. We threw the Commies
out of the Guild nationally in
1945 and out of the New York
Guild in 1947.
"I would agree that in setting
U p our international program
we did not want to see com-
munist influences take over
journalistic activity in Latin
America. The Communist-con-
trolled International Organiza-
tion of Journalists was spending
tens of millions of dollars on a
world-wide basis to gain control
of newspaper unions and work-
ers in emergent nations.
"Sure, we needed finance, but
we weren't going to any federal
spy agency for it . ? . the Guild
through its officers in Washing-
ton wrote to Funds and received
support. As far as I know those
funds supported our program on
a no-strings-attached basis.
That's why I'm shocked and
amazed by the implications
which are now being drawn ..."
From Washington,Klharles A.
Perlick Jr., Guild secretary-
treasurer, told E&P: "In the in-
ternational labor movement, one
of the subjects always being dis-
cussed is how to get money to
finance operations. When we de-
cided to expand our interna-
tional program we drew up a
list of funds likely to iie of iole,
then wrote to them stating our
case. There was no liclication at
that time, nor since, that the
funds now being described as
CIA conduits were interested in
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tinance."
Earlier, a statement from the
Guild's' executive officers said:
"Initial assistance was sought
and received from the AFL-CIO
and from the Solidarity Fund of
the International Confederation
of Free Trade Unions. Letters
requesting assistance were ad-
dressed to approximately 50
American funds and founda-
tions.
"Through January 31, 1967,
financial assistance totaling $1,-
004,000.00 has been received by
the Guild, and used solely for its
international affairs program,
from the labor movement ($10,-
00(t) and from five foundations,
Lb e .Granary Fund of Boston
($200,000), the Andrew Hamil-
ton Fund of Philadelphia ($90,-
000), the Broad-High Founda-
tion of Columbus, 0. ($343,000),
the Chesapeake Foundation of
Baltimore ($628,000) and the
Warden Trust of Cleveland
($33,000). The first two termi-
nated their assistance in 1963
and 1964, respectively; the oth-
ers have made grants within
the past year .
"The Guild has no knowledge
that any of the money came
from the Central Intelligence
Agency or any other U.S. or
other government source. The
Guild has never used its inter-
national affairs program as a
forum to deliver anything but
its trade union message. No one
has sought to have it do other-
wise."
The Guild's statement (issued
Feb. 18) also said that the union
was inquiring into the published
allegations and would "immedi-
ately terminate its association
with any foundation found to be
linl:ed to the CIA, and, if neces-
sary, will seek alternative
sources of' financial assistance
to carry on its overseas program
through free and democratic
trade union processes."
First step in the investiga-
tion, said Perlik, would be di-
rect inquiries to the "funds in
question." He did not know how
long the probe would take.
Asked if the Guild would go,
directly to the CIA if the infor-
mation was not obtainable di-
rectly from the Funds, Perlik
said, "I really don't know at this
stage; anyway, who ever got
anything out of the CIA?"
Guild headquarters was criti-
cal of a story published in the .
Philadelphia Inquirer which
quoted yWilliam J. Farson, ex-
ecutive Vied) resident, as saying
that there was a possibility that
the money might have been in-
tended to influence foreign jour-
nalists to pro-American points
of view. This report was de-
scribed by Guild officers as "in-
accurate," and "unfortunately,
given wide coverage in Europe."
Farson, a former Philadel-
phia newspaper employe, was
also reported as saying: "I can
tell you this, if any foundation
ever tried to influence our work,
we would not accept contribu-
tions from them. In any case,
these reports make it practically
impossible for us to continue.,
our international work. Any-
thing we proposed now would
be suspect. The only thing left
to do is to pull out."
In Officers' Reports
Guild spokesman, in conver-
sation with E&P, did not indi-
cate that so far there had been
widespread condemnation among
the union's membership of the
Guild's alleged utilization of
government money. They de-
scribed a protesting telegram
from New York Times Guild
members as having "a mere
three signatures." They said
there had been no official com-
munication from New York
News members who were re-
ported to be starting a petition
requiring national officers to call
a general membership meeting
to explain the Guild's asserted
links. The petition, which was
posted on the newsroom bulletin
board, declared that the allega-
tion had "rnisdemeaned the rep-
utation of American journalism
throughok the world."
The telegram from Times
staffers charged Guild office ra
with violating the union consti-
tution by failing to list the foun-
dation grants in general ac
counts audits in the Guild Re-
porter, the union newspaper.
Perlik said the officers had
interpreted the constitution as
not requiring them to list the
grants in general audits. The
graiits were included in officers'
reports to the ANG convention,
through regular reports to quar-
terly meetings of the Interna-
tional Executive board, and
through periodic stories in the
Guild Reporter which went to
all members.
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MEMPHIS, TENN.
,COMMERCIAL APPEAL
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The Guest Writer
. The Eager Victim
(From The Washington Post)
Now it turns out that the American i"
Newspaper Guild has been taking
money from the Central Intelligence.a-'
Agency, to the measure of nearly one!,
million dollars in the past six years:
The Guild has been hungrily taking
covert Government money to teach
our benighted and oppressed brotheri
1, beyond the seas about the virtues of t
free and independent press that it;
unbeholden to any political paymaster:
It is this element of moral imbecility,
that now constitutes a deep threat toi
the future of the American laboe
1' movement.
It is quite bad enough for the CIA to:,
, corrupt minor organizations like the
',National Student Association. But the;
CIA's invasion of the labor movement;
7M?the press is an evil on quite,
another scale. The CIA's eagerness to;
r put the Guild on its pay roll is only,
further evidence of an obvious danger.:
But the more profoundly disquieting;
side of the affair is the eagerness with
which the Guild accepted the money.
It has been the willing accomplice to
its own seduction.
American, journalism needs a strong,: ,
idealistic, fiercely independent union.f
. But the Guild's emergence as a secret,
partner of secret government only
indicates the decay that has overtaken
Perlik, the Guild's secretary-,
!. treasurer, laments that the publication.
' of this relationship will destroy thi,!
, union's usefulness abroad. He might;
'better spend his time considering its(
effect upon the union's usefulness hic
? this country, among its own members
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21 The Baird Foundation of New
.1York, for example, has passed
:( on at least $350,000 of CIA
1107//414 :
v - !money since,1961. One of Baird's1
4,1 CI ....) . 1 principal bebeficiaries in that
1 period has been the Synod of
.. I Bishops of the Russian Church,
i?
Outside Russia. Baird has giv-
en the synod $132,500 since 1961.
. .1 Still another area of possible
_ I inflitration has been the world'
Special To The Beacon Journal' with-any foundation linked to
press. B e Si d es unexplainesi:
. The Oberlin College chapter the CIA and seek financial aic11,1"press" payments of n e a r 1 y
of the National Student Associa-? kir= other s our cc s for the 18250,000 by t h e International,
tion (NSA) threatened Saturday p Guild's international affairs op--i Development Foundation i nl
l to pull out of the NSA. 1
, erations. .1963, there have been other
Alan Wachtel, Oberlin's NSA ' 1 la '
?ge paymentsA through funds!
. Guild officers declared that ;'! -.
caairman, said he was dis-
the Guild had never used its :linked to the CI.
WT
'Toter arns.
.....ayed on learning that theI
I The Independence. Foundation ,
international affairs program 1
, NSA's supervisory board had, "as a forum to deliver anything lof 13oston, for example, has re- .
.)
! admitted NSA officers and paid .
staff members were often used but its trade union message. No i
iceiYed funds from the CIA and
by the C e n t r a 1 Intelligence',
1 ,
lone? has sought to have it do ' has reported in its 1962 finan-
.
Agency (CIA) in direct intelli-1
. !
,otherwise." dal statement the expenditure.
1 Guild officials have admitted of $42,900 "through foundation
'til .1
ence-gatliriiiig act i v i t i e s;,.-at . theyn - had received up to agents, c o v e r i n g editing,'
'i abroad. ? 4900,000 in grains since 1965 publishing, and distribution of
I The board also disclosed that from the Chesapeake Founda- publications. in Latin America'
CIA funds had accounted for up tan, the Warden Trust, and the dealing with and explaining the,.
to 80 per cent of NSA's $900,000 U., S.. 'free .enterprise' economic
? budget rather than 25 per cent
as earlier claimed.
"WE'RE demanding full
explanation from our national
office," said Wachtel, 20, a jun-
ior from Great Neck, L. I.,
N. Y. "If we don't get one, we'll
disaffiliate."
In announcing It s position,
Oberlin's group became the
first of more than 300 autono-
mous campus units to threaten
splitting off from the NSA.
The Oberlin NSA chapter also
issued this statement deploring
"t h e congressional blindness
which assumes CIA interaction
Broad-High Foundation to fi-
system . .:
nance nich activities as confer- .
ences on newspaper union or-
ganization work and journalism ?Lii;:arkais
seminars overseas. The money "
allegedly was provided to the
foundations by the CIA.
A R T fl U R ROSENSTOCR,
president of the Guild, said
"there was no indication that
the foundation grants for Latin:
American programs and other
overseas operations came from
the CIA.
"Nobody tried to tell us howI.
to use the money, or tried to
control us," lie added.
The Johnson Adininistration's
? ..........
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investigation of covert activities
leaves American students un-
t!''by the CIA will extend far be-
touched ? merely subsidized. r
yond the agency's infiltration of
"We want to know who au-,
thorized the CIA funding of thet student organizations.
The presidential panel will
NSA ? and who authorized the!
also inquire into the CIA's in-
apparently substantial amounts;
volvement with American labor
to the AFL-CIO.' We ask all!
unions, charitable foundations,
ublic organizations to re-1
ostensibly independent interna-
valuate their sources ofl
tional organizations, and other
in?s," the statement said.
institutions.
IN' WASHINGTON, m e a n-,
THE PANEL will explore
while, officers of the Americanl CIA infiltration of intellectual '?
Newspaper Guild said the Guild!
would terminate its relationsvireles and may explore the
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Marking Guild ?
'? In CIA Case
PANAMA, March al (AP)--;,
Leaders of the Inter?Amerie,a'n
Federation of Working News-
papermen's Organizations say
they are convinced that the.
American Newspaper ? Guild.
.? accepted in "good laith" funds
? from " foundations later dis:.
' :-.elosed as supported by the:
?Central Intelligence.'
Agency.
? The Guild reportedly used.
the funds to aid programs a
Inter American Feder-
ation, which says it represents,:
60,000 newspaper- employes in
24 countries. Among other
:things,
-,..Ahings, the i7e6erntion
sinvijnars
for?newspapo..
The ..Fedc..:?.tion ex&!utivo:
committee uri; ruinously ralopt..
.,.ed the resowtion yesterday,
North ,.mci?ican mem-
bers abstain i
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MONTEG.0, BAY, Jamaica,.
March 31 (UPI)--George Bee-
be
?
of the Miami, Fla., Iicralcli
tol dthe inter-American Press.
-:.Association's Press Freedom-
: Committee yesterday that
,,-Pthreats of government and:
? ?. judicially directed secrecy-,
still cloud our horizons" in the;
- ? United States.
Beebe., vice-chairman of the
committee, was Irc_Nfr.rn.ir,g es?
? pecially to the poisibility of:
.;restrictions on court arlil crkine
reporting. The ri!sLretions
have been propo i he: .
American- Bar
7. Beebe also attaeli,
that the American '..revpaper
? Guild had accepted I antis from ,
? the Central lr'tcdigcnce
Agency. ?
Julio de Mesciu] a
?? president,' of the J?-;soclati,,n ;
? offered to go persom.illy to the
(,..summit conference in Uruguay4
;!.,next month to plead for help!
;;.in getting 39 newsmen releas-!
4' ea from Cuban jails.
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Other beneficiaries of secret CIA pay-
ments included the American Newspaper
guild [AFL-MI, the American Council
for the International Commission ot Ju-
rists, the International Student conference,
the National Education,,, association, the
Retail Clerks International association
EAFL-CIOJ, and the National Council of
Chnrches.
It may be doubted that any of these
organizations can claim truthfully to speak
for all their members. It may be doubted
also that all their members favor the ac-
oentance of government subsidies, whether
they are secret or provided in in a ma-
ture, open manner."
Much of the money spent on the secret
QIA subsidies has been wasted. The CIA
has indicated that it will pour no more
money down the same. rathole. Other
akencies of the federal government ought
te be as sensible.
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MAR 371967
USELESS SUBSIDIES
President Johnson has ordered the cen-
tral intelligence agency to stop the gravy
train by means of which millions of dollars
were paid secretly to private organizations
in the fields of labor, education, journal- t.
ism, law, and religion. The President an- r
flounced, however, that he will .name a
'special committee to study how the gov-
ernment can subsidize such organizations
"in a mature, open manner."
The purpose of an intelligence agency
is to gather iniormation about a nation's
enemies so that national policies may be
guided accordingly. Most activities of such
an agency necessarily are conducted in
secret: if an agent is exposed he loses his
usefulness.
The same rule applies to the private
organizations which the CIA has been sub-
sidizing. As soon as the payoffs became
known the director of the CIA, Richard
Helms, told a Senate committee that the
financial support was being withdrawn.
It is hard to see now why the federal gov-
ernment, having been caught with its ,
pants down, would wish to continue in the
embarrassing condition by indorsing fur-
ther subsidies of the same kind.
For example, what possible benefit to
#, the security of the United States could he
obtained from further payments to the
National Students association, the first of
the private groups to be unveiled as a CIA
payroller. This is a leftist outfit which at
international meetings claims to repre-
sent all American college students. In fact,
only 16 per cent of the schools eligible to
affiliate with N. S. A. have chosen to do so.
The organization cannot even truthfully
claim to represent the students at colleges
'hose student governments are affiliated
with it, because most of the students prob-
ably are unaware of the affiliation. When
the N. S. A. condemned the United States
for "aggression" in southeast Asia and
demanded a halt to all military action in
.et, Nam the statements did not repre-
:;ent the opinions of most, or even many,
Am e ri can collegians.
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Press independence
The Washington ? Baltimore Newspaper Guild
?
has rightly demanded ' an investigation into the
? financing of the Guild's foreign programs by the
CIA or any other governmental agency. It is to bel
hoped that it will press the fight to the highest
. i level until it has gained assuranee that the in-
tegrity and independence of the Guild will not
again be impaired by such secret subsidies.
' ;.7 ?
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0 It is to be regretted that the unit did not .
; ?
demn public and open support of its domestic
!! grams by the Government.
It would be 'difficult to imagine anything more,.
1. dangerous to ?,a free press .than the covert contri-:';',
butions of government to newspapers, newspaper.'?!'
. ?
??? men or newspaper organizations or unions. The is
power to secretly support journalistic groups is a
governmental power to exalt its friends and destroy
its critics. No ?government can be entrusted with,'.;
?
) that sort of power in a free society that values its
. ?
? freedom.
The open contributions of government to press.
groups is also pernicious and mischievous. News-
papermen constitute a fourth -estate which makes
its chief contributions to society by reporting the :I
transactions of government and objectively come 0.
menting upon them. The reports of newspapermen
? will not be believed and the criticisms will not be
valued if funds of government are finding theirit,
way into journalistic coffers. The close coopera- ?1
tion of government. and journalists is to be mise.
? trusted. Newspapermen, in the words of the Jewish.;' ,
leader, Shemayah, ought to 'love work, hate''L.
cloniination and seek no, undue intimacy with the,. .44'
ruling power.", ??.
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? Members of the Washington-
Baltimore Newspaper Guild
, last night demanded an in-
vestigation into financing by
the CIA or by any other Gov-
ernment agency of the Guild's
international programs.
The Guild unit urged that
none of the international
Guild's officers since 1960 be
permitted to sit on the union's
investigating committee.
Guild members also called
for a ban on any Government
'financing?covert or overt?of
. the union's activities abroad.
They also called for a ban on
'any?covert Government finan-
cing of domestic programs,
but net on financing that was
open.
? ?
The steps reflected dissatis-
faction with the stand taken
by the American Newspaper
Guild's international executive
board in the face of the Guild's
receipt of some $1 million from
five foundations identified as
CIA conduits.
The international board has
severed all ties with the foun-
dation, but has at the same time
recommended that it be per-
mitted. to seek Government fi-
nancing, if necessary, to con-
tinue its international affairs
program without disruption.
The issue will come up be-
fore the Guild convention in
July. :The international ekecu
tiye board has declared that it
"still has not conclusive proof
that CIA funds were channeled
to it through the foundations.",'
. By a 42 to 36 vote, the local'
also called on the international
union's three top officers to. an-
swer questions designed to de-
termine whether the union
knowingly received CIA funds.
Charles A: Perlik jr., the ANG's
secretary - treasurer, said last
night the officers would not re-
spond. "The questions have al-
ready been answered," he said.
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, Newspaper Guild has formally
; renewed . its demand for an
independent investigation of the
, alleged links between its parent
organization, the American
Newspaper Guild, and the
Central Intelligence Agency.
The action, taken at a mem-
bership meeting last night,
came as a rebuff to the interna-
tional union's executive board,
which earlier conducted its own
? intestigation and said no further
probe was needed.
The local union also rejected
? an appeal from -Charles A.
, Perlik Jr., secretary-treasurer
of the American Newspaper
Guild, who told the more than
100 persons present that the
union officers "have done what
we think ?the circumstances
. require."
? The Guild CIA link was first
? reported in Feb. 18 newspaper
stories which said the union has
? received approximately $1
? - million since 1960 from founda-
tions identified as conduits for
' ;the intelligence agency. . ?
Funds to International Program
All the questioned fluids went
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into the guild's international
program, which included exten-
sive financial support of the
Inter-American Federation of
Work ing Newspapermen's
Organizations of Panama and
the International Federation of
Journalists of Brussels, Bel-
gium
T h e Washington-Baltimore
unit called for a full investiga-
tion o fthe arrangement bj, an
independent committee com-
posed of Guild .members who
have not served in any union
leadership posts since 1960. Two
other, local units offered similar
suggestions.
But on March 11 and 12, the.
Guild's International Executive
Board held a special meeting
and directed its officers to
"sever immediately all connec-
tions, financial or otherwise,"
with the foundations in question.
"No Conclusive Proof" .
The, board said inquiries to the
foundations about the source of
their money had produced "no
conclusive proof that CIA funds
were channeled to it through the
foundations.?' . .
Finally, the board said it "saw
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committee . could render."
At last night's meeting, how-
ever, area newspaper employes
and others represented by the
unit decided to carry the issue to
the Guild's annual meeting, to
be held July 24-28 in Ottawa.
Stephen Rosenfeicl,a Washing-
ton?PoSt editorial writer, intro-
duced a resolution calling on the
convention to "receive or order,
whichever is then appropriate, a
full. investigation and a full
report by a body which does not
include any elected Guild offi-
cers...." . .
Main Debate Issue
Virtually all. debate during the
two-hour' meeting was over a
clause in the resolution prohib-
iting Guild receipt of govern-
ment funds, not only for interna-
tional programs but also for
"other programs"?presumably
referring to domestic projects.
By a vote of 42 to 36, the
Guildsmen voted to eliminate
the reference to "other pro-
gram." The full resolution was
then 'adopted' by an,overwhelm-
ing Votc,e vote., ? : ? . ?
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..A101NDAY WAS shake-away-the-CIA day for the Newspaper Guild and the Columbial
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