THE FEDERAL DIARY BY MIKE CAUSEY

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THE WASHINGTON POST
28 September 1979
By Mike i~e (~ausey
Association of Former Intelligence
Officers will hold its fifth annual con-
-vention Oct. 5 and 6 at the Sheraton
-Conference Center in Reston. Old
boys, and old girls, from various
cloak - and - dagger operations' will
meet and hear from the current
chiefs of CLA, NSA and DLA. about
new trends in intelligence gathering.
Friday-
Package price for .,`.the -Friday
Saturday sessions, including food,. is.
$68.50. Call [phone] for de-
tails.
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The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D. C. 20505
8 APRs
Dear Dave,
Fsscudvo Regisir2
Thank you for your kind letter of congratulations
on my appointment as Director of Central Intelligence.
I am well aware of the fine work you and your colleagues
in AFIO have been doing in support of the Agency and
the Intelligence Community. I am pleased that the
association has made such good progress in so short a
time.
I would have been delighted to be a speaker at
your convention, but unfortunately I will not be in
the Washington area during that time period. I sincerely
regret this and hope that I will have another opportunity
to meet your members at some future time.
With all best wishes for continued success-..-,
STANSFIELD TURNER
Admiral, U.S. Navy
Mr. David Atlee Phillips
President
Association of Former Intelligence Officers
McLean Office Building
6723 Whittier Avenue, Suite 303-A
McLean, Virginia 22101
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Admiral Stansfield Turner
Director of Central Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Admiral Turner,
The Association of Former Intelligence Officers has a
membership of 1600 ex-intelligence men and women from all
services. Among them are your two immediate predecessors.
work out the details with your staff.
I would like i to invite you to speak at the keynote
luncheon of the Third Annual Convention of AFIO on 15 September.
Last year then-DCI George Bush was the guest, and we hope that
the appearance of the DCI will become the custom. Our meeting
will be at the Twin Bridges Marriot Convention complex. If
you are kind enough to accept the invitation I will be glad to
know.
Our congratulations on your confirmati n. This organi-
zation is attempting to educate the Americ n public on the
need for adequate, responsible intelligen If there is
anything we can do to?"make your job easie , please let us
Sincely and cordially,
David Atlee Phillips
President
To be sure you are not confused: we recently changed
our name from ARIO---The Association of Retired Intelligence
Officers.
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DCI,
AFIO (Association of Former Intelligence
Officers) is about three years old and consists
of former intelligence officers from all services.
It is very active in defense of the Agency and
the Intelligence Community and provides speakers
for many university and other functions. The
"Periscope", a copy of which is attached by
Phillips, indicates some of the activities of
AFIO. The membership is 1,600.
On the other hand, CIRA (Central Intelligence
Retireees Association) is limited to retirees who
worked for CIA (members must have worked for CIA
for 10 years). Whereas AFIO is of officer rank,
CIRA has members of all grades. It was started
at the suggestion of Dick Helms when he was
Director. Whereas AFIO is activist, CIRA is
strictly social and fraternal and avoids
publicity. CIRA has some 800 members; Col.
Lawrence K. (Red) White, former CIA Comptroller-
General, is Chairman of the Board of Directors.
formerly of DDA/CIA, is President.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS
In Reston, Virginia...
strengthening the U.S.'s intelligence rather than
"ferreting out corruption." He added the cheering
news that CIA recruitment is up much higher this
year in both quantity and quality and added the
finding that in the course of his distinguished
career in politics and diplomacy he has "never
been associated with more selfless dedication and
at the same time more quality than I am at this
time as DCI."
The press agreed with these distinguished
gentlemen that the ARIO convention was an
important event. No fewer than fourteen micro-
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A SUCCESSFUL SECOND NATIONAL CONVENTION!
A galaxy of government and top intelligence community officials greeted the 250 ARIO members who met
in their second national convention at Reston, Virginia on September 16 and 17 and told them, in the words
of a message from President Gerald Ford, that "The United States cannot afford anything but the very best
intelligence if we wish to preserve peace and freedom....) welcome," the President went on, "this
opportunity... to express my deep appreciation to all of those who have served our country and have
provided the critical information that the President must have in discharging his responsibilities."
President Ford's message, reproduced in full on
this page, was delivered for him by White House
Counsellor John O. Marsh, Jr. at the final banquet
of ARIO's second national convention, a gathering
which confirmed that the organization has firmly
established itself in the eyes of government,
Congress and press as an authoritative and
credible public spokesman for the intelligence
function in our society. As LTG Samuel V. Wilson,
Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, put it
in a rousing speech at Friday's luncheon, "You are,
collectively, an important voice today. One of
these days I hope to join you and together we will
go on shouting out what America must continue
to hear. In the meantime, you have my utter
respect for the contributions you have made in
your lifetimes and continue to make today."
General Wilson received a standing ovation that
shook the walls as he reaffirmed his conviction
that America could and would retain its place in
the world and live up to its ideals "and will stay
that way until Americans choose otherwise - and
nobody wants to consciously make a choice like
that.-
A similarly encouraging message came from the
man who, above all others, has his fingers on the
pulse of the intelligence community and its
standing in the government and Congress. DCI
George Bush addressed the Thursday lunch
meeting of the convention and delivered the
hopeful message that Congress, before which he
has testified no fewer than 37 times in eight
months, is beginning to see its job as that of
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These past two years have been a time of testing
for the American Intelligence Community.
Throughout this period I have made my position
clear: The United States cannot afford anything
but the very best intelligence if we wish to
preserve peace and freedom. I have known
many dedicated and capable American intelli-
gence officers. They are a credit to our
country. They serve quietly, without public
acclaim, and their achievements are often
never known to the American people.
I welcome this opportunity of this Second National
Convention of the Association of Retired Intelli-
gence Officers to express my deep appreciation
to all of those who have served our country and
who have provided the critical information that
the President must have in discharging his
responsibilities.
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phones were fastened to the podium when George
Bush spoke. All the major TV networks were
represented and national coverage was accorded
to the Bush speech on the evening news with an
excellent shot of the ARIO emblem. (See
photomontage, page 6.) The news agencies and a
number of domestic and foreign newspapers
sent reporters. This coverage, much greater
than last year's, confirms that ARIO is a known
and respected organization involved with one
of the major continuing public issues of our
times.
Mr. Helmut Sonnenfeldt, Counselor of the
Department of State and often described as "the
right hand" of Secretary Kissinger, provided the
delegates with an informal insight on the role of
intelligence in foreign policy decision making.
Sonnenfeldt, who cancelled another engagement to
appear at the ARIO convention, asked that his
remarks be "off the record" so he could be candid
with this "knowledgeable group." Needless to say,
the questions were sharp and the responses
informative.
The convention not only listened to a number of
interesting speeches but also transacted impor-
tant business at the annual membership meeting.
Most important was the election of four new
members of the Board of Governors: William E.
Colby, LTG Daniel O. Graham, USA Ret., Helen
Priest Deck and Col. George R. Weinbrenner,
USAF, Ret. The election brings to 14 the total
membership of our governing body. (See biogra-
phies of members, next issue.) Under the gavel
of Lyman Kirkpatrick, Chairman of the Board of
Governors, the membership meeting approved the
amended by-laws, concurred in the appointment
aspects of maintaining a tax free status while
attempting to influence Congressional actions on
intelligence matters. A number of committee
reports were submitted which will provide a
source of program activity and membership and
other policies in the year to come.
An intellectual highlight of the gathering came
in a seminar on the provocative subject of "Good
Secrets, Bad Secrets and Non-secrets," chaired by
Dean Erwin N. Griswold, former Solicitor General
and former Dean of Harvard Law School.
Participants were William E. Colby, LTG Daniel
0. Graham, Walter Pincus of The Washington Post
and Charles Bartlett, syndicated columnist.
Although the discussion produced no agreement
on the tortured subject of what should be kept
secret and how it should be done, it produced
excellent statements of opposing points of view:
Pincus, on the one hand, maintained that keeping
its secrets is the government's internal problem
and that anything the press obtains and considers
news is fair game. General Graham on the other
hand, felt that the Espionage Act should be
enforced to the hilt against newspapers that
publish classified information. In between were
Colby and Bartlett, both of whom felt the laws
needed strengthening but that the focus must be
on the government employees who violate their
oaths and pass information to unauthorized
parties.
Like all other good conventions, this one was
also a grand reunion of old buddies who swapped
tall stories and lifted their glasses more than once
to toast old times, old friends or just because they
were thirsty. A few hardy souls got out of bed
early to play in the golf and tennis tournaments on
Friday a.m.1 (For the results see page 8.) As the last
stragglers made their way out of the hospitality
of a committee to explore the question of room at 3 a.m. on Saturday morning many were
adopting a new name for thde~organization h and of heard to pledge that they would meet again at the
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DCI Bush Optimistic And Confident The Patient Will Survive
George Bush, the latest distinguished American to sit
at the bulls-eye on the Seventh Floor of Langley
Headquarters, told the assembled ARIO conventioneers
that "CIA has weathered the storm" of congressional
and press investigation that swirled about the agency
for the last two years. As evidence for this conclusion
Bush cited a changed attitude in Congress where, he
said, "the mood has changed. No one is campaigning
against strong intelligence. The adversary thing, how
we can ferret out corruption, has given way to the more
serious question of how we can have better
intelligence."
As another sign of change, the DCI reported an
improvement in the reception that CIA recruiters have
on college campuses. Recruitment is up both in quality
and quantity, he stated. "Young people nowadays are
proud to accept the challenge of serving their country in
intelligence."
According to the DCI, a thorough reorganization has
improved the internal workings of the intelligence
community and of CIA. To implement the President's
Executive Order, which decreed greater centralized
management and budgeting for the community, the
DCI now has two equal deputies. One, Hank Knoche,
attends to the day to day management of CIA. The
other, VADM Daniel Murphy, is responsible for the
co-ordinating of the intelligence community. According
to the DCI, Admiral Murphy is "tenacious and working
hard to implement the President's Order in letter and in
spirit." Backing him up is the high-level Committee on
Foreign Intelligence, set up by the President's Order, in
making budgetary decisions for all the components of
the community, regardless of which department of
government they are in. This system now gives far
better control to the managers whose job is to handle
America's intelligence effort as a single, unified
program.
Mr. Bush did not gloss over the fact that numerous
problems remain to be solved. There has been a definite
diminution, he said, in the extent of the co-operation of
certain friendly foreign intelligence services. The
publicity that has exposed numerous sensitive
operations is largely responsible for this result - but
that situation is also improving with time.
Since he was sworn in to his new job early in the year,
Mr. Bush has been obliged to make 37 formal
appearances before Congressional committees - not
including numerous informal appearances. To reduce
the obvious duplication, the DCI expressed the hope
that the new Senate Intelligence Oversight Committee
will lead to a consolidation of committees and
consequently a better quality of oversight.
The security of the congressional oversight system
remains a problem in Mr. Bush's view, but here, too,
the situation is improving, largely as a result of the
responsibility and seriousness of Senator Inouye's new
oversight committee. Mr. Bush said that he doesn't feel
that leaks of classified data from the Congress are
inevitable but he weighs the risks himself before passing
on such information. If he knows a Congressman plans
to make information public, he would feel obligated not
to give it.
On the complex problem of covert action, Mr. Bush
said that the law is now very specific. The highest levels
of the government are involved in the approval process
through the Intelligence Advisory Committee. To make
this system work, a good deal of trust and prudence are
required. According to the DCI, the country needs a
covert action capability and hopes that the new
procedure will succeed.
Director Bush brought forth sustained applause when
he assured the convention that in his entire career he
has "never been associated with more selfless dedica-
tion and at the same time with more quality than I am at
Counsellor John Marsh
President Ford's Counsellor John 0. Marsh told the
final banquet of the ARIO convention - after delivering
the President's message reproduced elsewhere - that
our organization "has a unique opportunity":
"You can help achieve a better public understanding
of the role of the intelligence service in our national
defense.
"You can present to your elected representatives
views on pending legislation that relate to the operation
of the intelligence community."
Counsellor Marsh also called attention to President
Ford's executive orders tightening up approval
procedures and executive oversight of intelligence
operations. "For the first time," he noted, "he spelled
out the charters of the components of the community.
His Executive Order also defined and designated certain
responsibilities. There was some restructuring of the
intelligence community together with provisions for
Executive oversight including the newly created
Intelligence Oversight Board.
"His purpose," Marsh went on, "was not only to
strengthen the intelligence community, but to specify
safeguards against abuses. This has restored public
confidence in our very excellent agencies."
Mr. Marsh also had some kind words for one of
ARIO's newest members. "At this point," he said, "let
me mention to you the tremendous contributions that
were made by the former Director of the CIA, William
Colby. In a situation in which the principal thrust was
impacting on his agency, Bill Colby met the highest
standards of public service. I know the President would
want me to thank him here tonight in the presence of
his colleagues."
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Giving a speech on intelligence to the Association of Retired
Intelligence Officers, a group which includes not only yesterday's
respected peers but also some of my former superiors is not an easy
task. And when one adds the requirement to keep these remarks
unclassified, the difficulty is considerably compounded.
In essence, our job in the next few months is to emerge from this
crisis in intelligence with a workable institution without undergoing
irreparable damage in the process.
I am certain that no one in this room doubts the need for America to
have a strong intelligence service. Some few in our country apparently
do doubt it. Others say they believe in one, but they would so expose
and unwittingly hamstring it that it could not operate effectively. Still
others, who favor an effective intelligence service, question whether our
service is properly controlled and properly focused. We must listen
carefully to the voices of the latter......
The revelation of true intelligence secrets makes exciting reading In
the morning paper. It is soon forgotten by most readers, but not by our
adversaries. Enormously complex and expensive technical intelligence
collection systems can be countered. Need I remind this particular
audience, that dedicated and courageous men and women who risk
their lives to help America can be exposed and destroyed? I don't think
the American people want this to happen; especially when our
adversaries, dedicated to the proposition that we eventually must be
defeated, are hard at work. But Americans must understand or they
will inadvertantly cause this to happen......
We know the truth of the cliche "victory has a thousand fathers,
defeat is an orphan." And our version: "our defeats and mistakes are
trumpeted: our successes pass unnoticed and unknown."
Somehow, though. Americans have got to come to realize that
America has good intelligence-the best in the world. It is time for
them to know our country is safe from a sneak attack. It is time for
them to know our country is getting a bargain for its intelligence buck.
It is time for them to know the American intelligence record is studded
with success after success.
It is time for them to know:
? That American intelligence spotted the Soviet nuclear missiles
being delivered to Cuba in 1962 and supported the President as he
worked through 13 nightmarish days to force their removal;
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? That American intelligence gave seven years warning on the
development of the Moscow anti-ballistic missile system;
? That American intelligence pinpointed eight new Soviet
inter-continental ballistic missiles and evaluated the development of
each three or more years before it became operational;
? That two major new Soviet submarine programs were anticipated
well before the first boats slid down the ways;
? That we knew the status and design of two Soviet aircraft carriers
well before the front one put to sea for sea trials.
? That American intelligence successfully monitors and predicts
trends in oil prices and tracks the flow of petro dollars. That these
things impinge on their pocketbook and on their everyday life.
? That American intelligence each year turns to the key task of
assessing world crop prospects, which has to do with the price of the
market basket we all must buy, with the world food problem.
? That American intelligence monitors compliance with the strategic
arms limitation agreements. We do not have to estimate. We do not
have to guess. We know whether our possible adversaries are keeping
these agreements-that this is a new job for intelligence: keeping the
peace and restraining the arms race.
? They have to know that the bold technical thinkers; the
courageous people on hazardous duty in strange lands; the gifted
analysts puzzling out mysterious political and military moves made by
unpredictable people in far and closed societies are more than
craftsmen-they are dedicated, talented artists.
Intelligence is more than a craft. It is more than a science. It is
indeed an art. We do not have a crystal ball, and we can't yet provide a
copy of the 1980 World Almanac. And we may not predict the given
hour of a particular coup or revolution-any more than a weatherman
can make a flat prediction that it will start raining at precisely 0920
hours tomorrow. We can't tell what God is going to do on Tuesday of
next week, especially when he hasn't made up his mind. But we
probably can tell when he's getting mad. You and I know all of
this-but the American people don't-and they are confused. They
don't realize our primary function is to provide the leadership of this
nation wtih the deepest possible understanding of the military,
political, social, and economic climate of countries that affect vital
American interests. Our mission is to see that our leaders know about
what may happen In the world beyond our borders and about the forces
and factors at work there. The American taxpayer should know we do
this job well, despite our problems.
The past year has seen ARIO grow from a small
cadre of initial founders and a convention a year
ago to a membership of over 1200 persons from all
sectors of the intelligence community.
The policy of ARIO announced last year was
"The purpose of ARIO is to promote informed
public understanding of our country's need for
timely and accurate intelligence and to foster in
the public a full appreciation of the role of
intelligence and counter-intelligence." We believe
this policy has proved to be sound. During the
past year ARIO has, through the efforts of its
members, achieved recognition for its integrity
and capability in presenting to the public the
importance of intelligence to the nation. ARIO has
established credibility and respect.
In the coming year ARIO will continue on its
charted course with even added emphasis on
informing the public of the issues facing the
intelligence community. Our purpose remains the
same-to keep the public informed.
ARIO will continue to provide, as appropriate,
suggestions and advice to the Executive and
Legislative Branches of the Government on
matters affecting the Intelligence Community.
Increased attention will be given to ARID efforts in
the educational field.
In fact, when people see a statute of Nathan Hale-like the one in
front on the CIA Headquarters building at Langley, Virginia, they
recall his voice from the past. But they don't go beyond his words
enough to take a close look at him. For that shows his hands are tied
behind him and his legs are bound with a rope, just as he was bound
before the Redcoats hung him for attempting to steal their secrets.
They, not fully understanding, accept that state as the way it should
be. Somehow we have gotto secure their support to help us get the
ropes off of Nathan Hale. Failure to do that would be to neglect the
voices from our past, to jeopardize our freedom, and to endanger our
tricentennial.
The Soviets seem to believe their own propaganda that we are
disintegrating as a society but they worry about what we may do in our
death throes. At the same time, they will not hesitate to do whatever
they can discreetly to hasten our demise. Their strategy is to press us
politically, economically, psychologically wherever we are weak and
where the risks are slight, particularly in the low-intensity conflict
arena in the underdeveloped world; to bleed us and to embarrass us,
while striving for across-the-board military superiority, especially in
strategic weapons systems-in other words, a form of nuclear
blackmail.
My good friends, I know many of you personally-have worked with
you and ,tor some of you-know your great abilities and your
dedication. You are, collectively, an important voice today. One of
these days I hope to join you and together we will go on saying what
America must continue to hear. In the meantime, you have my total
respect for the contributions you have made in your lifetimes and
continue to make today. In recognition, I block my heels and give you
my snappiest and proudest salute. Thank you.
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Four distinguished new members of the ARIO Board of Governors
were elected at the Reston Convention among other important
association business transacted.
The new board members were: former DCI William E. Colby,
former Director of DIA LTG Daniel 0. Graham, Helen Priest Deck
who was the prime mover in the formation of our first formal chapter in
New England; and Col. George R. Weinbrenner, USAF (Ret.). who
has been our most active and energetic member in the Southwest. (For
biographies of the new and old members of the Board of Governors see
the next issue of PERISCOPE).
Under the leadership of Lyman B. Kirkpatrick, Jr., Chairman of the
Board and former Executive Director of CIA. the ARIO Board of
Governors and its officers have been consulting the membership for
opinions concerning ARIO's future plans. With the benefit of the
collective views of Convention delegates. Chairman Kirkpatrick took
the following steps:
Instructed the President to appoint a committee to organize the next
annual convention and report recommendations on the question of
whether to hold it at a site outside the Washington area:
Approved the suggestion that ARIO issue an annual award to the
American who has done most to advance the purposes for which ARIO
was founded:
Agreed to appoint three regional co-ordinators to act as channels
between the headquarters and the membership. (Details on this
decision appear elsewhere in Periscope.)
The membership meetings held during the course of the convention
also got through a respectable amount of business. At one session the
Constitution and By-laws as amended were read and adopted. Most
discussion focussed on whether or not we should bar ourselves from
attempting to influence legislation in order to maintain our tax-exempt
status. This tangled question was temporarily set aside in order to get
the Constitution and By-laws on the books. But a motion was carried
asking the President to appoint a committee to study the legal
questions involved and make recommendations. At present, the
by-laws prevent us from attempting to "influence legislation" but if the
committee of experts recommends a change, the membership will be
polled by mail on the proposed amendments.
Another vote approved the appointment of a committee to look into
the pros and cons of changing our name to eliminate the troublesome
word "retired." If it decides to recommend such a change, the
proposed alternatives will he submitted to the membership.
On Thursday afternoon and Friday morning the conventioneers
broke up into eight separate committees which accomplished the
following:
'The Policy and Plans Committee reported that since last year at this
time ARIO has forged toward its goal. achieving recognition for
integrity and capability in presenting its case and establishing
credibility and respect. In the coming year ARIO will continue on its
charted Course ...Our purpose remains the same - to keep the public
informed. ARIO will continue to provide, as appropriate, suggestions
and advice to the executive and legislative branches of the government
on legislation affecting the intelligence community. Added emphasis
will be given to its efforts in the educational field."
The Academic Planning Committee drafted a sample letter to a
university suggesting a course of study on intelligence and offering
ARIO's assistance in setting it up.
The Chapter Organization Committee recommended that three
geographical regions be set up, each headed by an officer to "provide a
communications link between local chapters and the Washington
Headquarters." As reported elsewhere in this issue, the recommenda-
tion was acted upon immediately.
The Convention Operations Committee recommended that the next
ARIO convention be held outside of the Washington area and that a
committee be appointed to explore the feasibility of this proposal.
The Committee on Constitution and By-laws revised and tightened
these basic documents and submitted them to the membership which
approved them in toto.
The Membership Expansion Committee made a number of
recommendations of which the most important were: appoint
membership chairmen to each new chapter or regional organization as
it is formed: explore the possibility of inserting an ARIO membership
application into the retirement packet of retiring intelligence
personnel: encourage each active member to recruit at least one new
member per year.
The Membership Services Committee recommended against
providing any commercial services to members at this time; it proposed
the revision of the membership directory to make it more useable to
members and suggested the maintenance of an employment clearing
house at the ARIO headquarters simply to facilitate the answering of
employment enquiries. Another suggestion was that members notify
headquarters of the death of any member so that a condolence card can
be sent and it notice entered in Periscope.
The Publications and Media Committee recommended against the
creation of a serious quarterly journal to be published by ARIO at thi,
time but proposed that a committee be appointed to explore the idea. It
recommended that Periscope be maintained as the principal
publication of the association, increased in size and frequency as funds
permit.
The Fund Raising Committee stet and deliberated but reached no
colic] usioiu.
Joe Burke, a new member and former Special Agent with the FBi,
spoke to the delegates about ways in which ARIO and the Society of
Former Special Agents of the FBI, could cooperate. Recognizing that
ARIO is the only organization which can claim to represent the entire
intelligence community, the delegates recommended that ARIO
officials look into means of cooperation. Since the convention, a
preliminary meeting has been held with the FBI group and the manner
in which we could cooperate is to be the subject of formal discussions by
the executive hoard of the FBI group at their October convention.
In mid-1976 ARIO sent all members a questionnaire asking their opinions on ARIO's present course - "too aggressive, too passive or just about
right." We also asked for comments on the present organization and for suggestions for its future course.
The majority who responded said the present course was "about right," but a number qualified their approval with additional comments. Some
disapproved "our consorting too much with the Media - the nemesis of intelligence"..."a tendency to accommodate those in high position, many of
whom were part of the original problem." Others disliked our "Not hitting back hard enough ....... Our need to limit ARIO efforts to advisory or
informative levels in a critical struggle"..."The defensive rather than positive and aggressive response to our attackers."
Corrective suggestions included placing a priority on "an active and strong legislative committee"... Greater efforts to get materials into schools to
"stem the flow of one-sided information currently prevalent there." One member recommended arming members with "clarifying and justifying
back-up information for use in defending potentially misunderstood or controversial public statements made in the name of ARIO."
More aggressive tactics proposed: "Jump in and give the FBI some strong support." "Join with American Security Council to fight CBS."
On the positive side members liked Periscope; appreciated the unbiased information ARIO made available; approved the establishment of our
McLean office (which one respondent hoped would alleviate the past lack of response to, or adknowledgement of, communications); and they felt
that ARIO has "put it all together." One person said that America needs ARIO," and another seconded ARIO's efforts to "dam the flood of leaks."
The "broad membership" policy was endorsed.
All in all, the thoughtfully prepared responses, while somewhat disappointing in quantity, made up in quality for the lack of volume. One in
particular struck a responsive chord and is worth quoting in its entirety:
"It (ARIO) is bringing we retired officers in out of the cold, so we can meet our former coworkers and collectively work to improve our image in the
public eye as well as, hopefully, improve conditions for those who follow in our footsteps. " (Emphasis added.)
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SNAPSHOTS FROM ARIO'S SECOND NA-
TIONAL CONVENTION: Top, center, DCI George
Bush addresses the Friday luncheon. Counter-
clock-wise from the Director: Tommy Lee Watson,
with Bill Hood not far behind .... O.S.S. veterans
Jim Ward and COL Carl Eifler, the latter a member
of the ARIO Board of Governors and West
Regional Coordinator, share a serious conversa-
tion with ARID Vice President Col. Steve
Hammond.... Former O.S.S. and CIA officer Curtis
Carroll Davis and Mrs. Davis.... Don Huefner is
listening to Sam Halpern, but seems skeptical
about what Sam is saying .... ARIO President Dave
Phillips and Gina find something very amusing in
their conversation with ARID Treasurer Lou
Napoli. Why are the two men who sign and
counter-sign ARIO checks laughing with such
glee?
MIDDLE PANEL, left to right: California
delegate Lee Echols didn't miss a trick at the ARIO
Convention, and managed to sell a number of
copies of his book, DeadAim.... Marian Sulc poses
prettily with her husband Larry, ARIO's man-on-
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Up Ileraman-seems he
should have grinned, having persuaded George
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graphy. Col. Gil Layton looks the other way.... but
toward Margaret Ruddock, one of a number of
cle egates who flew all the way from California.
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stands to raise a point-of-order.... Near the flag.
Helmut Sonnenfeldt, the Counselor of the
Department of State, discusses intelligence and
foreign policy as presiding officer Lyman B.
Kirkpatrick, Jr. ponders. (Mrs. Kirkpatrick, a
former intelligence officer and ARID member, also
attended the Convention(.... Major Al Wright.
glass in hand, listens with Board of Governor's
member Jim Flannery as ARIO's Executive
Director and Convention Manager Jack Coakley
makes a point .... CWO John Smith and Mrs. Smith
drove up from Richmond, as John has for all
Washington area meetings.... Major Lou Taylor,
one, of several delegates from South Carolina.
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(low net winner John Warner was busy elsewhere when the picture was snapped). Far right, PERISCOPE's Pat
String ham manages to talk on two telephones with a pencil clenched in her teeth!
LIVE FROM THE "GO-TO-H-ROOM... Pat Stringham Reports From The Nerve Center
Aka as "The Press Room, The War Room, The Phone Booth," and,
in fact Room "H" of the Sheraton Reston Convention Center.
"ARIO, may I help you?" And Oh Rogues, did we ever try!
"Where are the Committee Assignment Lists?" . . . .. Dave is
bringing them... ..... Where's Dave?" ... "He's on his way."
"ARIO. may I help you?" . . ."Oh, yes, Jean White of the
Washington Post" . . . "Mr. Phillips is in a Board Meeting at the
moment. May I have him call you as soon as he is free or may I refer
you to Mr. Hayden Estey, our Media Representative?" ... "Where's
Hayden?" ... "Ms. White we are calling Mr. Estey. Perhaps I can help
v'on?....... The schedule? Of course, I would be happy to." ... "Yes,
Mr. George Bush is addressing the Keynote Luncheon. Then at 1515
hours a discussion on the subject of "Good Secrets, Bad Secrets and
Non-secrets with Dr. Erwin Griswold as Moderator is scheduled." .. .
"The panelists? Mr. William E. Colby, LTG (Ref) Daniel Graham,
Mr. Walter Pincus and Charles Bartlett ... Ah. Mr. Estey is here, Ms.
White."
"ARID. may I help you?"
All this time the two phones in Room H have been either in use or
ringing. A TASS correspondent wants some information on the
Convention. Philadelphia is calling for a "live-interview." We find the
"live" ARIO member and muffle the other noise.
Anybody who moves is drafted for some task ... "Al (Wright) you
take charge of the ARIO Shield. Move it in to whatever room we are
currently using." . . . "We need Scotch Tape. Will someone go buy
some at the "Store" ... "The pencils are all broken, Gina, see if you
can find a pencil sharpener?".. .
We're an information booth, too. Barbara Storer forgot to pack a
lipstick so we send her off to the "Little Store" at the end of the hall
... Herb Hudson has lost his name tag and needs another one. His
original is later seen on Grace Covaults' big toe. (No time now for an
explanation of this one!)
"Who worked the Crossword Puzzle in Green ink?" ... "I, John
Muldoon, did."
"Does it always rain on ARIO Conventions?"
"Let's hear it for the Flip Side of Intelligence!"
"Suppose we had a Convention and nobody came?" (Jack Coakley's
recurring nightmare.)
A reporter - "Were all you cute gals really spies, Mara Hari types -
or are you mostly wives?" (I deplore the grammar, but sorted the
syntax.) ... "Most were Intelligence Officers and, of that 'most' some
were wives. Hardly Mata Hari's, but professionals nonetheless -
analysts, researchers, writers, editors and general factotum. Don't
forget! She also serves who sits and analyzes."
And there was a Pennsylvania reporter whose interviewing priorities
were: A) Women ARIO members from Pa.; B) A woman member; C) A
male member from Pa. A fast search of our "Resources File" disclosed
- NO "A's" in attendance, 50 some "B's and 1 "C". We hated to do it
to you Helen Deck and Oscar Stroh, but that's the way the eagle soars.
Enter five media persons wishing to file reports on our two phones.
Unlike 1776, Great Britain won this round and for twenty minutes we
were treated to Oxfordian prose. We eavesdropped scandalously
("Spook's Convention," indeed!) but noted that he was returning the
compliment. WE found out more than he did!
"Who is that photographer with the ARIO I.D. tag who says he's
with Izvestia?" "That's George King, the official ARIO photog-
rapher." (Audible sighs of relief)
A slim young man says quietly, "I am General Wilson's driver. To
which entrance should I bring the General tomorrow?" ... "I'll check
with Mr. Coakley." . "Where's Jack?" ... "Right here." Another
problem solved.
And so it went for eight and one-half hours on Thursday and the
same on Friday with staggered breaks to attend sessions, committee
meetings, discussions and the luncheons.
The content of the speeches certainly gave us all something to take
home and ponder upon...
ARIO membership is up, with 25% of that membership women.
Convention attendance is close to the latter figure with roughly 50
women out of more than 200 delegates.
Not all of ponderous import, but quotes your correspondent felt
worth preserving: "I pursued, but never quite overtook, my studies."
(Gordon McLendon) ... "Babbling bureaucrats!" (LTG Graham) ...
"The fundamental 'secret' is the Ballot Box." (William Colby) . . .
"One person's 'secret' is another person's open information." (Walter
Pincus) ... (The "corrective lens" theory) "Intelligence should help
broaden the sometimes myopic view of those too close to the scene of
action." (Helmut Sonnenfeldt) ... "Democracy cannot be taken from
us! We can only give it away!" (LTG Wilson) ... "You can't conduct
intelligence in a Macy's show window." (Dave Phillips in Philadelphia
"live" interview)
A special vote of thanks must go to the fifteen Roguettes who kept
their cool in Room H while all around them were wilting: Marian
Gaumond, Myra Johnson, Doris King, Helen Kleyla, Florence Larson,
Marjorie Martin, Mayme O. McNally, Ruth Olson, Ethel Pearson,
Meg Roney, Dorothy Southerland, Elizabeth Sudmeler, Jo Thompson,
Virginia Thorne and Pat Venable.
NUMERO UNO Recommendation for next year: Issue skateboards
to all Roguettes for rapid transit from Lobby to "H" and return.
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This is another of PERISCOPE's presentations of
personal viewpoints on intelligence by persons eminent
in the field. Dr. Ray S. Cline, a member of ARIO's Board
of Governors, is the author of Secrets, Spies and
Scholars, which is reviewed on page 10. The review
does not discuss Cline's views on the future of covert
action. While the former Deputy Director of CIA and
Director of INR at the Department of State endorses the
maintenance of a covert action capability he does
propose drastic change. The following - direct quotes
from United Press International - outlines his proposal.
We welcome comments from ARIO members).
"A former deputy director of the CIA says his old spy
agency should be stripped of covert operations and
turned into a relatively open research institute.
Dr. Ray S. Cline said he still favored limited
clandestine operations by the United States, but they
should be hidden in other parts of the federal
government.
CIA headquarters, he said, should be purged of its
'dirty tricks' reputation by becoming the benign Central
Institute of Foreign Affairs Research.
'The Central Intelligence Agency, the famous
acronym which has become a worldwide public
relations liability, would cease to exist,' he said.
Cline, educated at Harvard and Oxford, made the
proposals in a memoir of his two decades of service
with the CIA, 'Secrets, Spies and Scholars.'
Cline outlined a bold reorganization of the U.S.
intelligence community which would allow CIFAR to
assign intelligence tasks to intelligence units of the
departments of state, defense, treasury, commerce and
ARIO LIFE MEMBERSHIPS AVAILABLE
Life Membership for interested ARIO members is now
available for a one-time payment of $150.00. The next
edition of PERISCOPE will contain an Honor Roll of the
first members to solicit Life Membership, to be
recognized by issuance of a special membership card,
listing on a plaque in the Ario National Office, and other
benefits and recognition as the Board of Governors shall
approve during its December, 1976 general meeting. As
the title implies, Life Members will receive all
publications and enjoy all prerogatives of ARIO mem-
bership without future assessment.
Those who wish to provide full support to ARIO by
becoming Life Members should so advise the National
Office before the publication of the Winter Edition of
PERISCOPE.'
From a newsletter for computer experts: "CIA Changes Name to
CCIA. The Computer Industry Association became the Computer and
Communications Industry Association by unanimous vote of its board
of directors on August 19. The change was explained by Jack Biddle,
CCIA president, 'as reflecting the growing interdependence of the
computer and communications industries.' Biddle also said that the
CIA acronym had caused some 'interesting confusion' since the
association's move to Washington."
agriculture intelligence units.
This reorganized intelligence apparatus, he said,
should be monitored by a special committee of the
House, as well as of the Senate. So far, only the Senate
has such a panel.
Clandestine operations, he said, should be controlled
by a small professional staff within the White House.
'These covert operations should not be too frequent
nor too large,' he said. 'The operations themselves
should be carried out by specifically trained personnel
assigned to Clandestine Services or members of the
Clandestine Services Staff.'
'The heart of these additional steps to put our
intelligence on a sound footing is to change the popular
image of intelligence by demonstrating that most of the
work is neither illegal nor immoral.
'Thus, CIFAR should replace CIA at the Langley
Headquarters Building, which could then be more open
to scholars and journalists interested in consultation and
substantive research findings.'
Cline said any future intelligence director should be a
cabinet member standing above CIFAR, taking orders
from the president and the National Security Council.
He should have direct access to the chief executive, he
said.
The deputy director for intelligence in 1962-1966,
Cline departed from CIA Director George Bush's
reluctance to publish the CIA annual budget which he
said runs $4 billion a year because 'the marginal value of
this information over and above what Soviet and other
spies can now get is so small that it is less important
than the gain in congressional and public confidence in
the accountability of our intelligence system.' "
ARIO APPOINTS REGIONAL COORDINATORS
Three Regional Coordinators have been appoint-
ed to provide executive direction for the formation
of Area and State ARIO Chapters. COL Carl Eifler,
is now the West Coordinator, Col. George
Weinbrenner, will be responsible for Central
development, and Mr. Lawrence Sulc is the East
Coordinator.
Each of the three Coordinators will have the
authority to appoint Area or State Chairpersons.
Colonel Eifler, for instance, has already announc-
ed that Lee Echols will be the California State
Chairman, and Mr. Sulc has confirmed that
Chairwomen Helen Priest Deck and Barbara
Storer will continue to manage ARIO affairs in
New England.
The West Area, under Colonel Eifler, is
composed of the West Coast states, Idaho,
Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Colorado,
Arizona and New Mexico. The Central states for
which Colonel Weinbrenner will be responsible are
Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South and
North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin,
Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana. The
remaining Southern and Eastern states will be
supported in their activities by Mr. SuIc, who
works from the ARIO national office.
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of interest to intelligence buffs and watchers of the world
scene. All reviews are by ARIO members.
SECRETS, SPIES AND SCHOLARS, by Ray S.
Cline, Acropolis Press, Washington, D.C. 1976. $10.00.
There are a number of reasons for reading this book, the first and
least of which is that it is written by Ray Cline of our Board of
Governors. Another reason, still not pertinent to the value of the book
itself, may attract the curious: one suspects that Ray will be back .in a
key position in government one of these days. The remaining reasons
for reading it and for giving a copy to others are many and they are
compelling, as is the book itself.
Each of us had a different set of experiences in his or her intelligence
career: few could have had as varied and exciting experiences asdid
Ray. He does not himself appear in the earliest part of this work which
reviews the development of our intelligence services. The theme here -
and it appears throughout - is the need for central intelligence. He
tells of the struggle during and then after the war to put such an
apparatus together. And he shows us that the form alone is not enough:
there is a constant struggle to keep to satisfactory standards and to
produce satisfactory results.
When he writes of his own experiences the book is liveliest. Don't get
the wrong idea. This is a serious book. It is not romanticand it is never
cute. In an aside at one point he says: "Most books on the subject of
intelligence operations are garbage." He spends a little time good
humoredly dissecting and spoofing the false mystique. He tells a
straightforward story of the OSS and his experience in it and in other
intelligence endeavors before he joined it. The important dividends are
the constantly perceptive lessons he draws from these experiences - I
,s on't say morals, although some of these lessons may be seen that way.
He tosses occasionally an amusing How-To hint: "...controlling the
newsbreaks...is the best entree to the great men, who like to be up to
date even more than they like to be well briefed."
One assumes that this book will be on reading lists in courses of
political science and international affairs. Maybe it will attract the
attention of the bright and literate anewspaperman here and there.
You could do your Congressman and your country a service by sending
a copy to the first with the prayer that his duty to the second will lead
him to read it. Probably the President would get as much out of it as
anyone else could and this might avoid for all of us what Santayana
feared.
Ray Cline's mind is impressive and he writes clearly and forcefully
and as simply as he speaks. The book is sometimes brilliant, sometimes
exciting, and always interesting. He stirs the blood when he says that
"There was an idealism and an urgency in all this that gave meaning
and lives to a generation of CIA officers and their many colleagues in
other agencies in the U.S. intelligence community." If the eyes of your
young listeners have glazed when you told them what it was like
clubbing away with your musket there at the high tide of the
Confederacy at Gettysburg, give them this book: that is, if they be
intelligent and thoughtful young - or even old - persons who need
perspective to see how we intelligence people got where we are today or,
better, were yesterday. (It's hard for anyone - even Ray Cline - to
judge just where we are now.)
Once, a year or so ago, I congratulated Ray on his coolness in a TV
performance in which he played the patient bull to serveral ill-trained
matadors who peevishly waved their trendy capes at him. He said
something like this: "Some of these people just don't know anything.
They don't understand. You have to start with the basics and explain it
to them." One admires Ray's being able to discuss the worst of the
anti-CIA time in this book without - as it were - raising his voice.
Probably what hurts intelligence professionals most about the
writing on intelligence in the press is the sloppiness of terms and the
carelessness with facts, a looseness which would not be tolerated in the
intelligence services but which our citizenry must consume or starve.
(Or is it the lack of objectivity? We are told there is no such thing.)
Perhaps the best moments an operations officer can remember are
CnI R $$'iQQt13t45RflQOdl?M?R@1i elligence and sent
something resembling truth forward with the editorial remarks cleanly
removed from the report in the field comment. In this book examples of
hewing to the clean line of respect for the truth are many. Ray makes
this exciting on the analytical and on the most sophisticated level - the
estimative. Thus he was disturbed by the abolishing of the Office of
National Estimates in 1973: estimates "...should be responsive to the
evidence. . .not bent to support [the policymaker's] views."
As his prescriptions for the future will be discussed elsewhere in this
edition of Periscope, I shall not treat with them here except by saying
that they will cause controversy. The book is a study of the pursuit of
excellence and where we have fallen short. It is criticism in the best
sense and it is a welcome change to have our real faults discussed by a
professional. John R. Horton
BODYGUARD OF LIES, by Anthony Cave Brown,
Harper & Row, New York, Evanston, San Francisco and
London, 1975. 947 pp.
At the 1943 summit meeting in Teheran, Winston Churchill while
briefing Marshall Stalin on a series of deception operations to mislead
Hitler and protect the supreme secret as to the time and place for the
invasion of Europe in 1944 uttered a classic epigram: "In wartime,
truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard
of lies." Thus emerged the code name for the overall Allied plan for
deceptions and stratagems that would vitally affect the success or
failure of the Normandy invastion-Code name: NEPTUNE.
Hitler was completely confident of his ability to drive the invasion
forces back into the sea. Despite losses in Russia, he still had a million
men in the West entrenched in the strongest line of fortifications along
the coast. It was the judgement of highest military authorities on both
sides that the invasion would likely fail if Hitler could locate or rapidly
concentrate his forces to meet the assault coming across one of the
world's most capricious waterways. Such failure could only mean
disaster of the highest order.
To counteract such bleak prospects, Plan BODYGUARD provided
for fabrication of a series of war plans just close enough to the truth to
seem credible to the Fuehrer, but which would mislead him completely
as to the time and place of the invasion. A succession of intrigues would
compel him to disperse his forces throughout Europe and thus weaken
him in Normandy, to delay his response to the actual invasion by
threats in other areas and continually suggest that Normandy was only
the prelude to the "real" invasion coming in the Pas de Calais. By
clever use of doubled agents, firmly in the control of the XX
Committee, the Allies were able to feed Hitler with plans for invasion in
other areas.
Plan BODYGUARD contained thirty-six subordinate plans and
scores of associated stratagems all designed to disguise Allied
intentions, conceal the real secrets of NEPTUNE and provide the one
essential element needed for its success-Surprise.
The supreme prize that enabled BODYGUARD to succeed was
called "ULTRA"-the interception and decryption of secret German
wireless signals. Just how the Allies were able to duplicate the German
cipher machine called Enigma and decode Hitler's signals makes most
fascinating reading. Hitler had confidence in his Enigma machine to
the very end and used it to send his most secret directives, which by
1944 were being read by top allied commanders almost as fast as by the
intended addressees. The obvious value of this source explains the
extreme measures to protect it, including Churchill's soul searching
decision to sacrifice Coventry rather than to let Hitler know that his
signals were being read.
On D-Day the top Allied generals read the pleas of Field Marshall
Rundstedt to use the seventeen divisions earmarked for invasion
contingency, including over 1600 panzers in the Pas de Calais, to drive
the Alliesback into the sea. But, Hitler vetoed the request believing
"that the enemy is planning a further large scale operation in the
channel area." Hitler's belief was based on deception reports from
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readers who desire a personally inscribed copy. Send a check for the bookstore price, $10.00 to ARIO with the
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ARIO is now eighteen
months old and it begins to
appear that, despite some
shaky moments in 1975, it
and American intelligence
will survive. Although we
have never solicited funds
other than dues and per-
sonal contributions of ARIO
members, we have an
office and the furniture is
paid for. We just purchased
shelves for the first books in
our library. Our Second
National Convention,
thanks to some volunteer
work from many of our members and a great deal from
a few, was a success. We have a now-experienced
cadre of public speakers and writers who will stand up
and be counted when there is debate concerning the
need for adequate intelligence in America. By the time
you read this we will certainly have 1,300 members.
The most important thing going for us, after that
initial period when many a skeptic eyed us warily, is our
good name. Next week, for the fifth time, an ARIO
representative will speak on that important little Hill in
Washington-at Congressional request.
To me the most satisfying part of ARIO's
development has been the ecumenical aspect-former
intelligence professionals from all services working
together, in tandem, and speaking in a collective voice
which cannot be ignored. Let me quote from a letter
one of our members just mailed to a number of his
former colleagues. CAPT Robert P. Jackson, Jr.,
USNR (Ret) of Louisiana recently attended the ARIO
convention with Mrs. Jackson. Returning home, he
urged friends who had served with him in ONI to join
ARID. In his letter he told them: "ARID was started by a
few retired agents of the CIA, because of their
concern... They evidently believed that only a joint
organization could accomplish the things they hoped
for... The retired personnel from any one organization
could not be effective in the encouragement of
Congress to pass the necessary laws to protect our
national secrets. Separately they could be successful
only as social clubs. Together the possibilities are
great."
There has been considerable discussion as to whether
ARIO should exist at all. Some of my former colleagues
from CIA have not joined ARIO, saying frankly they
believe intelligence is a secret business to be conducted
in secret, and that its practitioners should continue in
the silent service even in retirement, just hanging in
there until the problems go away. Two years ago I
agreed with them. Now I am convinced that ARIO's
course is a proper one. The "problems" which have
been behind the onslaught against intelligence, and
which have tarnished the image of those who served
diligently and honorably in an arcane but necessary
trade, will be around for a long time. Today, as I write, a
copy of The Washington Post is in view-there are two,
separate lurid headlines on the front page about the
k a ainst
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responsible for bombing the United States Capitol.
ARIO has never denied that American intelligence has
made mistakes, some grievous. But ARIO must
continue to insist that the intelligence community, on
balance, has served this country well, and that
intelligence operators were dedicated patriots.
Our task is not easy. We do not sell secrets, and thus
cannot titillate those who write headlines or insist on
indiscriminate revelation. (ARIO speakers have appear-
ed before innumerable civic and educational groups-l
am not aware of a single instance when one of our
members has let slip a vital secret). To maintain
credibility, we must be low-key and ready to admit that
our critics can sometimes be well-meaning, with
concerns as honest as our own. But a prudent long
range investment can pay dividends. For instance, I
have just reviewed a class-room kit for use in the
nation's high schools. Produced by the Associated
Press and Prentice Hall, the kit is composed of
film-strips and tape cassettes about the CIA and the
intelligence community; it is designed to provide
students the information necessary to allow them to
make their own decisions about the need for secret
operations. As far as I know it is the only teaching aid of
its kind now available in the American secondary school
system, and certainly thousands of young people in
hundreds of schools will be making their decisions
about the role of intelligence after seeing the film-strips
and hearing the cassettes. They will make that
judgment after hearing the observations of four
persons, each commenting on intelligence. The four?
Senator Frank Church and three others. The other three
are ARIO members.
You will have noted elsewhere that we now have
three ARIO Regional Coordinators. Contact them, work
with them. Form an ARIO group in your community-it
takes only one of you to make a reservation at a
restaurant and to invite those colleagues who live in
your area to gather for a dutch-treat lunch and to plan
local ARIO activity.
There is still much work to be done. Our detractors,
many of whom have prospered from selling secrets,
have made their impression, and we must put their
perceptions in perspective for the American people.
Recently I have been working on a speech I will give
at the end of the month in Madison, Wisconsin to a
public affairs group. In the mail yesterday I received the
publicity which has gone out for that presentation.
Among other items was a suggested reading list about
intelligence, provided to the group by the Madison
public library. Four volumes were suggested, so that the
members of the audience would be knowledgeable
about intelligence operations before my appearance.
The four volumes? First, the Rockefeller Commission
Report, which is fine. The other three were The CIA and
the Cult of Intelligence, by Marchetti and Marks, The
CIA File, by Marks and his colleague from the Institute
of Policy Studies, Robert Borosage, and, finally, Inside
the Company: CIA Diary, by Philip Agee.
Perhaps in the future ARIO can become a social and
fraternal group, and we can all get together occasionally
o
CIA. The FBI is besieged now for actions
, and drink to better times. But not
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'-WASHINGTON,
Jan. 4=-The. A.I I
C.T.o leadership attempted to dissuade
jPresident-elect Carter.. from':, appointing
"
,-- fPeodore
C.SorensenAs Director of Cen-
?'tral.:Irtelligence. last.inanth union` 'offi-
saidtoday.
+group the American Federation of.Labo-
$; I-Iowever,- according to other sources,
Kirkland carried tltis. message to. Mr.
4'Carter at his. Plains.- Ga` home on r_~.
in a., indI had no options", other
tb sa that r - ? ..
y lVlr. Sorensen, former special,
New York lawyer, h4-been "the first
Sorensen 13enies.Stand in Contesf
r Carter=stayed aF :the Sorensen apart-.
merit.- Mr.'and Mrs. -Sorenser also; gave"
~1_clinner party r;-"Carter at;.which`
iarently,originated primarilyi is his.pur
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1; Mr. Sadlowski has drawn support from
a wide variety. of nonunion people--in
`eluding Jane Fonda, the actress, and John;
Kenneth Galbraith,:: the economist=-in his
campaign -against Lloyd ItilacBride th
leadership's candidate.
November. and December -several
press: articles also linked Mr. Sorensen
'.) ith the Sadlowski campaign.
-Throug}i.:a -spokesman, Mr..-Sorensen
deniod. any. ties with' the Sadlowski- cam
paign: Hiss statement said: _
"I'have'at no.time taken any.position,
expressed any' 'opinion, authorised any
lisa of my name or participated in `any
otherzway'in any union election of any
4u4-at any tune':' i ;,.,
W Commenf byShanker "j
[[ Sorensen's%selection as.-the Carter
choice for.Direetor-ot Central Iotelligeace_
va,s,anrtounced by:,the;President-elect on
. a ag
''''About that time; Albert Shanker, presi-
dent_t E;?tlie ,Lln}ted. Federation. of.Teach-
@5 eras-~.riting=;a ,column -for aa_paid -ad
f vertisemen that.; appears.-. in , The- New
mes on ; Sundays,: jn which: he;also;
accused Mr Sorensen' of_beingJpart: ;of
Ia ."radical' chic"`campaign for ;Mr. Sad-
I bowskl. The column appeared Dec.
Asked how he had".come'to include Mr.
Sorensen. in. his list, Mr. Shanker referred
a' caller?.to an aide in New York, who
said; the union chief's'files contained two
press-clippings suggesting a7 Sorensen as-
sociation with the Sadlowski backers.
"That squnds pretty ;thin," the.caller
"I guess it is," the aide replied.
is However,. there,. appear to 'be: other
sources : of opposition to.. the appointment
.,
of Mr. Sorensen.
Fifteen middle-and upper-ranh.employ-
tees of the .Central . Intelligence. Agency
said?in response to questions that they
-were-disappointed with the choice for a
variety, ,of .reasons, .among-?them. ,Mr.
Sorensen,;,. involvement in. the-Kennedy
Administration's Bay of Pigs policy state-
siientS.3 Bgt they refused to, be,quoted pup,.'
''But {Mr Sorensen` does enjoy the sup-
por[.q WilIiain p.. Bundy, editor of For=
01g ~ilairs,-: tivlia had;.once-headed. the
'!estimates;,staff at: CsI.A:RIr.undy :was'
paid to`feel Mr. "$arensen.;-would match
thek,.djre*rship of john AraMcCone,;who
was aimogt-universally?liked :. , ~;?; ~ ,
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TV r4dom"I'Ll.
Tomorrow
With the exposes of the CIA's
clandestine domestic op r.'tions
and the Washington uproar they
have caused, it is shocking - if In
no way surprising - that not one of
the four national networks has
bothered to produce anything
resembling a full, special report on
so major a story. -
Under these circumstances,
special praise is due Tom Snyder's
"Tomorrow" show at NBC-TV for
the enterprise of. traveling to
Canada last week to interview ex-
CIA agent Philip. Agee. Agee, ,who
defected from the CIA after 13
years as an operative in South
America and Mexico, is author of
"Inside the Company, the CIAi
Diary," an adversary exposition on
the agency that has been published;
in England and Canada as part of a
plan to prevent censorship of the
book's publication in the U.S. On
advice of his ACLU lawyers, the
author is staying in Canada until the
book is published in the U.S.
Snyder's flight to the Toronto Stu-
dios of CFTO-TV to interview Agee
was well worth the effort. The ex-
operative might be called an inter-
national John Dean, except he,has
no reason beyond his own con-
science to turn on the agency.
Anyhow, he proved to be a very
willing and able subject. Fo.r
veteran CIA watchers, much of
what was said was confirmation,
but there were hard-news aspects
to Agee's connection of the
Rockefeller family to CIA oper-
ations and his details on the in-
tricacies of spurious international
union activities that make AFL-
CIO prexy George Meany a CIA
It had ben said befofe, but Agee
may have said it more succinctly
,and co vittcingly when he charged
that "tl secrecy around the CIA
activities is not to keep them secret
from-the Soviets. because they're
obvious to the Soviets. It's to keep
them secret from the American
public."
.And, "CIA, when you come right
down to it, is nothing more than a
secret political police of these com-
panies, American multinational
corporations."
Agee said he knew nothing about
the CIA's domestic operations, but
he -insisted that with the modus
operandi of the CIA and other in-
telligence branches, a spread of
clandestine activity. to the home,
front was inevitable. And one
thought immediately of E. Howard
Hunt's phonying-up of State
Department documents when Agee
said of his work in Latin America:
"We would write false documents
that would be attributed to people
we wanted to discredit and then
have theni surfaced in one way or
'another so that people would wind
up in jail for months and months."
It was an utterly fascinating
hour, but much too brief. Agee
remains an interview subject with
plenty to say, and he would be an in-
valuable consultant if any network
ever works up nerve enough to take
on the agency. .
Snyder's handling of the inter-
view was good, especially in giving
Agee a clear range for discussion.
The host has a way of weaseling a
bit while getting down to the hard
question. For example, to avoid the
charge that Nelson Rockefeller is
hardly the one to head a com-,J,.4.
/.~
mission investigating the CIA, 7-N5.g .
Snyder said he had heard thee
charge made the other day at a yf-ce.>.,P41u;
cigaret counter. The tactic would CAA f}: R y
seem hardly necessary, except,
perhaps, when one considers that
'
s network, Herb
thehead of Sny-der
is a good friend of the
Schlosser
,
nation's number-one intel nee
operative, Henry Kissinger -Bill.
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.Without the knowledge of its rank. and file, 14 . u/ .
the AFL-CIO has dabbled heavily in foreign intrigue ~~.
Partners : Labor and the CIA
Wherever you turn on our troubled planet you are likely known, much more is hidden, crying to be revealed.
to find AFL-CIO people, or people linked to AFL-CIO For the record, Meany, Lovestone (who retired in
people, involved in shadowy and disturbing situations. 1974 after three decades as the key figure in this
The turmoil in the Chilean streets which served as the drama), and Meany's son-in-law, Ernest S. Lee, a
pretext for General Augusto Pinochet's coup in Sep- former a Marine n Corps
major who AFL-CIO ast taken Lov saone's
tember 1973 was led, in part at least, by people allied place
with or trained by an organization called the American department, adopt the stance of simple trade unionists,
Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD), whose totally independent of the U.S. Government, who
president is AFL-CIO president George Meany. People merely provide mimeograph machines and jeeps for
with similar affiliations have been active in clearing the fellow unionists 'abroad and teach them the skills of
path for political rightists in Brazil, Bolivia, the Domini- organizing new workers and bargaining collectively.
can Republic, Guiana, Uruguay, Guatemala, Cuba, and "We in the AFL-CIO," Meany declared some years
other countries. ago, "do not even try to influence the. structure of the
In Vietnam you find a labor federation of uncertain labor movement in other nations. We teach the funda-
virtue whose leader; Tran-Quoc Buu, a supporter of mentals of union operation; but how the pieces are put
President Nguyen Van Thieu (until recent weeks) and together is up to the people involved."
before that of Ngo Dinh Diem, has been heavily In a more elaborate apologia, an old friend of Love-
subsidized by the AFL-CIO and an organization called stone and Brown, Arnold Beichman, claims in the
Asian-American Free Labor Institute (AAFLI). AAFLI, October 1974 issue of the AFL-CIO's American Federa-
again, traces back to George Meany, Jay Lovestone, tionist that "American labor has shown an extraordi-
Irving Brown, and other leaders of the AFL-CIO "in- nary independence of governmental foreign policy."
ternational team." And in Africa another such organi- His evidence for this assertion is that the 1973 AFL-CIO
zation, the African-American Labor Center (AALC), convention endorsed the longshoremen's union in its
spreads its wisdom and. money wherever necessary. "refusal to unload Rhodesian chrome." though Wash-
No Western labor group has ever controlled such a ington itself has often supported racist Rhodesia, and
far-flung empire as this AFL-CIO. team.. What does it that the AFL-CIO has called on the Administration to
do? Where does it get its money? How does it relate to "extend economic sanctions against South Africa and
the 13 million members of the AFL-CIO in the United the Portuguese territories," which American Presi-
States, to the State Department, to the CIA? These are dents have refused to do.
mysteries worthy of attention, for though much is As further proof of the "anti-colonialism and anti-
racism" which supposedly stamp the AFL-CIO as inde-
Sidnev Lens, a Chicago-based labor leader and activist pendent, Beichman quotes "a sharp left critic," Sidney
in peace and radical movements, has written Lens, to the effect that "Irving Brown gave consider-
extensively on both domestic and international political able aid to unionists in North Africa who were fighting
and economic issues. His most recent book is "The ? French imperialism. He also supported Lunwmba,
Promise and Pitfalls of Revolution, "published until his death. The AFL-CIO as such has denounced
by the United Church Press. fascist Spain, apartheidist South Africa, and the mili-
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WASHINGTON -- Of course,
the Central Intelligence Agency
has been operating inside the ..,
U.S. And why not?
All American Presidents since
Harry Truman, a score-.of!
Cabinet officials and a number of I
top labor chiefs, for example,
have known this for years.
Virtually all of these men have
participated in these operations-
including such CIA critics as the
late Robert Kennedy and Walter
Reuther. The laMp tw9 and I
retired Gen. Maxwell Taylor,
operating inside the U.S.A., using)
several Americans, actuallyf
discussed methods of uniting andU
capturing the Italian laborl
movement.
Reuther, who was United Auto'
Workers president until killed in
a plane crash, earlier had bee
given 00,(00 in small bills by the
CIA to wash and use in and out of
the U.S. on certain projects.
Sections of American labor'.
always have cooperated with the
CIA--just as British labor works
with its MI-6 and German labor,
until not so long ago, worked with
their iwn burgeoning coun-
t erin` --igence service.
And for good reason--labor
movements are constantly b_ein
infiltrated by the Soviet -secret
police (the KGB) which has
become increasingly active in the
U.S. since detente--you can take
that for absolutely, positively,
uncontradictably certain.
Such infiltration was especially
the case in old CIO unions. So if,
became doubly important to
check out certain key labor.
leaders, most of whom later
acknowledged they had been
Communist operatives. And they
had been privy to considerable
U.S. classified briefings and
secret information especially.
during t'h..e postwar development
of the hydrogen bomb.
Who was to check out the
American scene? The FBI, its
director and several of his top
a sistants had a veritable horror
of check'ng certain unions,
whether for leakage of secrets or
mob infiltration, lest the Bureau
be CCi' -d of labor c'sph nage.
All 1rt.,lligence gathering
becomes .: mia:zi;na of secret
'r 5',:ir.vorld- actian
etf.... t'r,.. crisis of
Thus in one fashion or another acknowledged that six members
there have always been lab-or of the British National Union of
specialists or labor desks or Mineworkers' executive com-'
special' labor operations inside mittee forced the British coal-
CIA. Over the years these CIA diggers' strike to such extremes
specialists worked closely with that the nation almost was,.
AFL officials, AFL-CIO paralyzed and a government fell.'
executives, individual unions and The Soviets think so much of
university men specializing in their own so-called All-Russian
labor-on problems ranging from 'rade Union "movement" as a
the newborn Federal Republic of force for infiltration of other
Germany, Austria, inside lands by exchange of labor
Hungary, Italy, France, delegations that the Central
England, Guyana (British Committee put former secret
Guiana), Bolivia, Chile just to police chief Aleksandr Shelepin-
mention a few arenas. in as chairman of the U.S.S.R.'
Why? And why not? Even the labor federation.
Socialist British Prime Minister There have been all sorts of
Darold Wilson officially charged semi-secret interdepartmental
that Communist dock workers
were conspiring to wreck the
United Kingdom's economy some
years ago during a London
waterfront strike.
And it's generally
04r~t keVcpiarters executive I
co:nmi tees.
So if there's to he a series of
congressional proles l:ito the!
CIA, let it be to strengthen the'
? power- of this agency to protect,
the U.S. Sure, someone should
know what's in those 10,000
dossiers. flow old are they? Are,
they actually files on anti-war
dissidents? Or ace they folders on
those civilians who hold strategic
secrets ';:hick may be ferreted
out by Soviet agents--who don't
exactly v:ear placards saying,
"I'r,t a KGB man." .
What's illegal should stop.
Certainly. But first someone
should narrow all this down to
actually what eras done to get up
the files. Or is it information sent
over'by tae'FBI?
Intelligence . oik and ccua-
tcrintelligrnce ara t!:a blood -
s creams of nation ?I life.
Somebody has to watch the-ba_ back
of the tore.
?.nd ec the. CIA is innocent
until proven guilty. Or has the
~,O `me cC6n.J)i
CJA4 4'l ~-n:es C_
aide, Cord Meyer, Jr., v:riter.
poet, analyst, intellectual wh':c",
nonetheless had been a tough
(badly wounded) machine gun-;
toting Marine officer who had ]lit
Pacificlslandbeaches during the
big war.
There were others but Cord
Meyer was al:.lost the top official
labor front-and easily
'-?a.i and still is one of the CIA's
best brains. His Yale University
scholarly record will match the
whole glob of intellectuals of the
Committee for `?.'uit;ral
Freedom. He doesn't believe it
corny to say he loves A.nerica's
freedom despite i.ts iaui .: ?T'
when he says it, it doesn't soar:
corny.
There are all sorts of reaslols
for the CIA working in the gray
intelligence area inside the
travel snakes visits by
scores of t isir.es :::en tit a time,
t
rnerely a two-day r~.lnc t: ip
Rausia aar:d even China, give ...
day or two.
Aii!1 ttif_'i i re E. clll tur,:ii and
cot lmerc'iat exchanges. And, on
tit,: taluor front there .. c hi-
r..: ^t.iimal tri.rle sctrctari.i's.'
American groups which actually'
were CIA operations. In
December 1954 the late Secretary
of Labor Jim Mitchell created a
"working group on overseas
labor matters." On it were Labor
Department, Pentagon, Foreign,
Operations Administration and
CIA representatives.
The late CIA chief Allen Dulles,.
who himself worked closely with
American labor, dispaAtched to
this working group a brilliant
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:,w5jne3 ,NTews Services
Washington-The Central Intelligence Agency so-
-retly read the mail of AFL-CIO President George
~Ieanv and two of the labor leader's top aides during
1950- according to a high-ranking former CIA
official. allegations that the CIA en age& in illegal 66T66> -tic
And, in ;response to charges that the agency re- spying during his tenure.-Helms, now ambassador to
eived 9,000 to 10,000 names of American. dissidents Iran, has agreed to testify flan. 22 at a closed hearing
of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. on the
=Morn.the Justice Department in 1970, an administra- allegations.
?ion source said last night that the CIA has told the The administration source who'said the CIA had
Justice Department that it made no use-of the list -destroyed the agency s list of American radicals, gave
and destroyed it in March. no explanation for its destruction. However, accord
These were the two latest developments concern-. ing to one report, CIA officials may have feared that
ing the shadowy foreign intelligence agency, which is new provisions in the Freedom of Information Act
ender fire for allegedly exceeding its authority by en- eotdd be used to force the agency to turn over its. files
gagirjg in widespread d mestid spyine. to cInitiazens.
related development, aconfidential letter dig-!
high-tanking former intelligence official who
A-
par-onally -took part 'in, the program to monitor ,closed yesterday tt~t the CIA began soliciting U.S.:
Meaiiy's mail said the agency also read .the. mail of . companies last fall to conduct a secret study of. trans-
-
Jay Lovestone, the AFL-CIO's now retired director of c ry' r~portati.'ajonor NATO systemsATO being allies as well developed. as by the some Soviet of Ameri Union.
international affairs, and Irving Brown, the -AFL-CIO's Sen. Richard S. Scbweiker (R-Pa.) who disclosed'
European representative. the letter's existence, said he would push for a Water
The former official, who asked to remain anony- gate-style Senate investigation to determine whether.
mous, said the operation was begun because the CIA the CIA has exceeded its foreign intelligence charter.
was not able to get sufficient information from Ameri-
can unions which served as conduits for agency funds
to anticommunist European trade unions. The CIA
declined to make any official comment, either on man
itorin; of the union leaderss' mail or the statement that
the agency funneled money through the Americana
trade union?movement to foreign unions.
In Farmington, Conn., a former CIA official last !
night recalled another operation in which the CIA,
working with the FBI,. opened the mail of other U.S.
citizens. Richard.M. Bis*ell Jr., a former deputy di-;
-rector of the CIA's office of plans, said the operation
was aimed at identifying Russians who might be able;
to supply information to the CIA, and not at "moni-
toring American citizens."
Former CIA director Richard Helms has denied
MEANY., George
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L-a an unexpected and unusual expression
of solidarity, the International. Longshore-
men's Association (AFL-CIO) last month
sanctioned a 48-hour boycott of all Chilean
cargo. - _
The ILA action was evidence of a widening
split in the AFL-CIO around the-question of
support for the-.fascist Chilean junta. An
increasing number of U.S. trade unions are
adding their voices to the chorus of protests
against the role played by Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger and the CIA in toppling the
democratic government of Salvador Allende
in September '1973.
Although only. a minority of unions is
pointing to the complicity of the AFL-CIO's
own _ American Institute for Free Labor-
Development (AIFLD), a substantial number
are nevertheless raising strong criticisms of
the U.S. intervention and of the fascist
policies of the fluting Chilean junta, This is in
contrast to the official stand of AFL-CIO
president George ivleany who pushed
through a resolution at the labor federation's
last convention that directed its main fire at
the Allende government and lightly tapped
.the wrists of the junta for "excesses" during
the bloody September 1973 coup.
The swelling labor protests followed the
disclosures of Rep. Michael Harrington
(D-glass.) that contr.arv to official
disclaimers, the CIA was heavily involved in
financing Allende's opposition and in
organizing lockouts and boycotts to harass
the Allende government.
- Other U.S. unions which have voiced
opposition to the CIA's sabotage and the
junta's repression include the Amalgamated
Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen,
American Federation of Teachers (AFT),
International Longshoremen's and Ware-
housemen's' Union (II.WU). International
Union of Electrical Workers (iU,=)r United
Auto Workers (UAW) and United Electrical
Workers (LIE).
The most.dramatic protest to date was the
Sept. 18 and 19 dock boycott of Chilean
ships- and cargo on t'^,e East,._- Gulf
and West Coasts. The two-day boycott was
the result of a resolution adopted last August
at the 31st congress of the International
Transport Workers Federation in Stockholm,.
Sweden. The. ILA, which represents East
and Gulf Coast longshoremen, is a i-number
of the federation. ILA president Thomas
Gleason in telegrams to aJJ. 1LA locals urged
them to boycott Chilean..cargo for that
two-day period. The Chilean ship, Copiapo.
was idled for the two days at a Broodivn.
N.Y., pier when members of ILA Local 1814
refused to unload the ship's cargo.
The independent West Coast longshdre
union, ILWU, although not a member of the
federation, also joined the bo;cott. When i')
demonstrators, including members of the
October League and the New American
Movement. picketed a ship carrying Chilean
cargo at Long Beach harbor, south of Los
Angeles, Calif., a crew of 10 longshoremen.
members of ILWU Lccrl 13, walked pf the
ship- The ton_-~ shuremen greeted t w
demonstrators with c enched fist sautes bui:
returned to work '-)u hours later when a-i,
arbitrator tiled the a a! Gout an unaethori_
work stoppage.
T e ship, Pro ie ntial Lines' Santa Mari,
was boycotted the ncxr day. Sept. 19, when
it docked in San I rsacisco. Longsh Ire men
worked the ship but reused to touch its two
tons of Chilean c=rao, consigned to San
Francisco. when at tijunta demonstrators tier
up a p`1c:ceQine?at the pier. The Santa till^a
sailed from the Bay Area for -Vancouver.
British Columbia, its Chilean cargo s:ii1
aboard- -
In his telegram to the dock-locals. ILA
president Gleason noted that the boycott wag;
meant to call attention to the situation in
Chile and was only a warning: He said the
boycott could be revived in the future if the
warnin was not iheeded_
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In other actions. UAW presid>nt Leona,-::1
Woodcock called for a full-scale, public:'
hearing on the ,C1 k' role in Chile.
of C(,? action
brou hz further recta:o h. In resl:i it tc+
F' rd s Bar t. i0 s: atement that
'Twin cntank. lire othe overnments, duce
take rtnlit ._ct, %ni in file int~ila?9 rte.
Eel"'." IL E -s:dent Paul Jenni h=!?;
remark:ed:
"Tojusti`v our actions on the ground,, i na:
ethers do the sane :.Ming is to confess t'- at
we have no standards of our own- Even if
such actions could be justified. '.vhv shrntid
ccc' dle in a .ternccra oc nation
trcatinv the earth's r':'-aanies with hands.'th
respect...
Only a handful of U_S. unions. however,
have tailed for n-o:,of the MELD, the
'.A
front-;roue set ~o by the governrn_er,
several iniatlnat:o-al corporations and the
AFL-CIO. MELD s run by Meany .anJ his
international affairs director. formers', Vie'
Lovestone and now' l'rncst Let, .',4eanv
son-in-law. In a S_ '.) statement, Pat:.
G' mnn. secret=: -t:casurer of the ar: al-
ga,-.,earn Nie., t_rs unite. a_r ed
Cto-- 're~~ to infest. functi ns
AIi LC.) in Chi .
tat iOs ieCNni t it~rtia:i >'ia1 con,.entvir!
Se r)t. 9 to 13, in ,i"v `ork `ivy, the i_ .
akin a re a'it;t. `., scored tite :c+'C
,.` =d 'n .=tlU
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The fascist coup which overthrew- the;
rogressive Chilean government of Salvador'
1lende on Sept. 11, 1973, was not solely the
ark of Chile's generals, acting on behalf of, '
Hllle:lc:arl JJGVG IV1JIIlelIL Dii[IlE, dliu rVCft VHJ"
~Recent exposures of congressional hearings n American labor leaders in class collaboration funds in the form of grants, loans and credit
fore a the involvement of the Central to win or buy support among key unions and flow into AIFLD coffers. Finally, the
itelli en.ce Agency CIA) and n the key federations. On the second level, AIFLD
- AFL-CIO pledges about 23 percent of its
$ -..(. was given the function of gathering regular budget to international activities and
ommi#tee of - 0, the U.S. governments top information for the CIA, facilitating the has doled out generous loans to AIFLD
reign policy body headed by Secretary of is iltration of Latin American labor, through its enormous pension fund.
movements,. and providing a cover for the Although it has dropped in recent years,
Mead ate showed i theg hand role #hep Nixon
Y. systematic. recruitment of informers and; AIFLD also receives financial support from
dministxation in its nearly three-year-longagents. On_the third level, AIFLD provides private U.S. corporations. At present, Iarge-
forts to undern;ine. Allende's Popular an institutional cover for the transfer of CIA corporations provide about 5175,000 a 'pity government by se retly funneling Year
and other intelligence operatives in and out AIFLD goes after corporate support and gets,
illlions of dollars into. Chile as. bribes and.of countries quickly and quietly. it .from the largest multinationals with'
aislr, ,payments for Allende's opposition. ? When the institute began its operations, it investments in Latin America.
-hose efforts finally_ culminated. in ?e-frst assembled a team of U.S. trade The list of corporate contributors features:
lacidy;,Sept, 11 coup, which saw the unionists. Many had Latin American W.R. Grace and Co., Rockefeller Brothers.
nassacre and imprisonment of thousands experience through the-Inter-American field -Fund, ITT, Kennecott-Copper Corp.-, Crocvrt-
l oil thousands of people and the strapping omces of the International Trade `Lelierbach, Anaconda Copper Co., First
way of all democratic rights, imposing Secretariats. They had contacts inside National City Bank, the Anglo-Lautaro
ascis,m on the .Chilean. people. foreign. labor movements as well as a U.S. Ni ,
Somewhat less, well, known, however, is he Co. and many others. According to a
e fact that the`ceup was also aided and trade union background. radio broadcast from Punta del Este,
betted by the AFL-CIO, the U.S. labor Then, a second wave of AIFLD personnel Uruguay in 1967, "Harold Gereen. head of
bd :ration. began to function alongside the front-line; ITT, was so impressed.with_the philosophical
trade unionists. For the most part, their-sales talk for AIFLD by Tabor's George .
Through the American Institute for Free o
_abor Development (AIFLD). an organi- backgrounds revealed no labor experience. Meanv that he doubled CFF's conrrihutzon.":-
These eo Ie included a retired Navy
alien set a in I962~ by the federal p p r1lFLIl s cantributlart"?to big busi7ess,;,
-overninent, multinational corporations and captain, to Air Force colonels, a recruit needless to say, is by' far the larger in this .
AFL-CIO. ;c' tern} funds and dues money from the Department of Defense, and a crew mutual aid relationship. - -
ae
.aid by U.S. union members found its way.ol aggressive individuals whose professional AIFLD channels substantial amounts of
alto the hands o; f right-wing Chilean "trade training came through the Office of Strategic money directly into pro-U.S. unions in Latin
-monists," v.ho were instrumental , in.,Services, the Counter-Intelligence Corps and America. But AIFLD is also an important
:)pplmg the .M ende government. Working the CIA. intermediary-or conduit for transferring:
v concert with the CIA, the AIFLD also From 1970 to?1973 a number of Chilean funds to rigs t=wing unions a-nd individuals.
_elped "train" right-wing Chilean unionists trade... unionists moved back and forth The transfer takes place, however, so that,
1 a special school set up by the institute in between Chile and the United States. Most the money cannot be' traced back easily to-
=rent ,,Royal, Va. came from strategically placed, right-wing the- U.S. government.:.Tolaunder the-money,.
The AIFLD's trainees later played unions. In 1972, at least six groups of AIFLD relies on ITS,..-which performs' the
i mincanM roles in the truck owners' lockout Chilean trade unionists toured the United. touchy job of allocating it a -mong unions in"
end other employer-inspired strikes, States, meeting with important AFL-CIO,. Latin America,.Th.iis operation is necessarily
-conomic harassment of the Popular Unity AIFLD and International Trade Secretariat complex since it is performed to obfuscate
.
UP) regime which helped set the stage for (ITS) leaders. The groups were made up of the whole funding network;
rtiilitxry coup. unions whose leadership - consistently -The International- Trade Secretariats are..
glow did this all come about' and what-is opposed Allende and played strategic roles large, international labor federations.
Cie. con:'mon thread - that linked the; in. the counter-revolutionary activities organized clang fhe lines of a specific trade
.,actionarv. ancicommunistforces within the culminating in the Sept. 11 military coup. or profession. Most national or international
1FL-CIO with the CIA and Chilean fascism? unions in the United States are of tliated to a
FOOTING THE COST corresponding ITS. The Cornmunicadoa
The fundamerlal objectives of AIFLD are funding. Currently, over 90 percent ,
of belongs to the Postal; Telephone and
tlected in its organizational and AIFLD's budget is Financed by the Telegraph Workers International (PTi'I), an
Dperationu; ;;ructure which functions on- overnment's Agency for International ITS very active in Latin America.
}tree levels. R was never just a labor Development (AID). AIFLD also has access ~'lhereas AIFLD plays an important
,clucatioei iiC3te, as it was advertised. to other funding sources. It has acquired a? administrative, educational and intelligence-
,>Hnd ~?dticational institute is an y:riual monopoly over U.S. government and gathering role. the Secretariats account for
Alliance for Progress funds earmarked for
telligenee erng agency. And hidden the principal activists and operatives in
labor in Latin America. Out of a total
heath an _'. er. leeper cover, a clandestine rnary Latin American trade unions. They can
,pr.rations pptaros function Alliance budget 19h7 of 36.1 million, Ia this role more easily than AIFLD for
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5criop1?Howord S.rvk?
CHICAGO - AFL-CIO
President George Meany says
he's baffled by his brief ap-
pearance in President Nixon's
latest tapes.
At the end of a June 23,
1972, conversation on the Cen-
t r a I Intelligence Agency
(CIA), Mr. Nixon says with-
eC-: . nation: ` ' by e l I ,
they've got some pretty good
ideas on this Meany thing.
Shultz d i d a good paper. I
read it all."
George P. Shultz, now out
of government, w a s M r.
Nixon's labor secretary, later
his treasury secretary, and a
Meany friend a n d golfing
partner.
"I'll have to ask 'blue eyes'
about that," Mteany chortled.
"Maybe he din an investiga-
tion on me and kept me off
the enemies list. I'll have to
ask him the next time I see
li;n."
Mr. Nixon had complained
on Sept. 15. 1972, that Shultz
w a s n o t cooperating with
White House efforts to use the
Internal Revenue Service
(IRS) as a weapon against
political enemies.
"He (Shultz) didn't g e t
secretary of the Treasury be-
cause he has nice blue eyes,"
Mr. Nixon griped at one point
in the tape of the conversa-
tion.
Shortly before J u n e 2 3,
Meany was victimized by the
Nixon dirty tricks organiza-
tion when he was the object of
GEORGE P. SHULTZ
'Blue eyes' lost out.
a rude telephone call purport-
edly from McGovern's cacti-
paign manager, Gary Hart.
S a i d Meanyt "I'm quite
positive Shultz didn't have
anything to do with that."
Meany, w h o turns 80 on
Aug. 16, said he has never j
seen a scandal like Water-
gate. "There has never been I
corruption in government, at
least at this high a level, to
the extent there is today."
By comparison, he found
the Teapot Dome scandal of
the 1920s "a refreshing sort of
thing."
Recalled Meany: -Teapot
Dome was a good, robust, old-
fashioned c a s e of graft --
simple, plain ordinary graft."
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By Ed Townsend
Labor correspondent of
The Christian Science Monitor
New York
An important and controversial era
erican Labor Is ending. -
in" m
Thy Lovestone; director of the AFL-
AFL-CIO, who is the final arbiter of
policies - and there Is not a more
hard-line, implacable anti-Commu-
nist in U.S. labor.
"Labor and the free world owe him
[Mr. Lovestone] a deep debt of grat-
itude," said Mr. Meany recently of his
friend and long-time adviser. Then
recognizing Mr. Lovestone's con
CIO's International Department and
the "gray eminence" -of the feder-
- ation's strong anti-Communist . for-
eign poll cy, is retiring June 30:
There is general agreement among
observers that not many in American
labor have been as broadly influential
at home and abroad in shaping not
only union philosophies, but also war-
time and postwar social and political
structures:
M'r. Lovestone has been , one of a
s:ma11 group of AFL-CIO 'cloak and
dagger" operatives -- more outin the
open now - who were highly effective
in plots and. counterplots throughout
the :,orld to oppose Communist global
a.soirations to infiltrate labor.move-
raents.
xe'any still boss.
troversial position, he noted that nis
foreign policy aide also has long been
"the target of all who would pervert
democracy and destroy democratic
institutions."
: Many in AFL-CIO share in varying -
degrees Mr. Meany's regard for Mr.
Lovestone, onetime U.S. Communist
leader who renounced communism to
become a dedicated and highly effec-
tive foe of its ideology and tactics not
only in the U.S. but- throughout the
free world. _ .
Mr:.Lovestone is still denounced
regularly in the U.S. _ Communist
press and by extreme. leftists as a
traitor and a?fascist." Those in labor
who favor more flexibility in relations
with unions abroad, often, criticize
him as too rigid in his beliefs and too
responsive :-to old ideological posi-
tions.
by former West German C ancellor
.Konrad Adenauer.
The AFL-CIO staff official helped
form the International-Co:ufederation
of Free Trade Unions and to rna_ntain
it for years as a counter to Co:nmufSsL
unionism.
Although known particularly for,
foreign affairs, he also was a trusted;
aide: to Mr. Meany in domestic and
union matters. He w .--.s an inter-
:mediary - unsuccessful - between
Mr. Ivieany, then secretary-treasurer
"of the old AFL, and John L. Lewis of.
the. United Mine Workers during ef-
forts in the mid-1930's to avoid the
Industrial unions breakaway that led
to formation of the CIO.
After World War II, he worked,
strenuously to Shore up Europe's
democratic unions and governments
with. AFL-CIO's funds reportedly
supplemented b a still-unconfirmed $2,
million a year from the U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency. A former top
aide of Allen Dulles, then: Director of
the CIA, is a source for reports gels,
Mr. Lovestone's vastly ir.ormed la-'
..bon intelligence operation was used to
-funnel CIA funds to groups fighting to
strengthen. democracy-. in Europa.
- Mr. Lovestone Is to be succeeded by
But despite Mr. Lovestone's retire-
ment, the AFL..-CIO's International.
position will remain the. same-. for
some time to cone, observers say.
For no matter who holds the labor
body's top international affairs post,
.it is George Meany, president-of the
antagonist. He first began working
with the International Ladies' Gar-
ment Workers' Union in 1943, then
futilely sought: to develop a strong
backing for communism. within ra-
pidly expanding American unions -
at one time with a particular empha-
sis on the struggling, young United
Auto Workers. But in a dramatic
philosophical reversal in the late
1930's, Mr. Lovestone renounced com-
munism and became an effective
then reorganized the Communist
Party, .U.S.A., along "lines . he and
other American leaders considered
best suited for the country and its
workers.
At the same time, in the 1930's, he
the - depression as impractical. He -
from.Moscow to implement a woiker.i .
and farmer action -program.'during ray 4 4 C, _
Ernest S. Lee, his assistant since 196
Party founder in 1916 and Mr. Meany's son-in-law. A gradu-
Mr. Lovestone helped organize the ate of Georgetown University's
American Communist Party In 1916 School of Foreign Service and one-
and became its general secretary In time Marine Corps major, dir. Lee's
the.late .1920's, until he broke with views usually are parallel to those of
Russian communism and was purged Mr. Lovestone - and ofti`_r. Meany -
from the party- by Joseph Stalin. A but they are less scarred by decades
pragmatist, he had, protested orders of ideological infighting.
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Sihnificantly, 1,1r. Lovestone was
decorated for his activities In Europe
 The contestnetween niue+L
and David Selden for ApKeyedfycaf F elease 200411:1
the American Federation of Teachers
at the national union's convention this.'
August is not simply a fight between two,
individuals. Involved in the election , is-.
the' future of ;the, AFT. which ,has;' in'j
Many members. of, the AFT among i
=them those .not -concerned about its
future,, including Communists;lhave'seen
in the building of a coalition for Selden -
the possibility of bringing together those
who oppose Shanker's drive to push the
AFT into the'- ranks of reaction and.'to
make it completely subservient to' the anti-detente. pro-war; class collaboration, _
.: policies . of the George Meany leader ?
:This does 'not mean that they.'agree;:
.with. Selden gn all ` issues:, Total agree
-;'ment is not possible in the building of a. `1
coalition. of. yarious groups and . individ
But it should be noted.-In' this connec-
tion, that Selden has. broken' with Meany:,
and Shanker! on'very: important issues
lie stood with the. majority of delegates'
at AFT. conventions .in strong opposition'
to the war in Vietnam.'and to pro-Nixon "neutrality" gin the 1972 presidential elec-
tion. Ile is !opposed to Shanker's' step="
by-step destructi6n of. democracy'- in the
AFT.
It was his break' with Meany-Shanker:
policies which' led to Selden ' being
pushed aside. and Shanker . being. given.1
his place on'the AFL-CIO executive coun-,,
cil which .` led-! to' the- demand by 'the
Shanker-dominated'AFT executive coun-j
ei,l that Selden resign as AFT president,
and Shanker succeed him, -without wait-
ing for the election:at the. August con
vention 5
It v ~s disquteting therefore to find +
in the E`e.br'dary, Newsletter of Teachers'
Cause, the group built by Selden and
some of his supporters. echoes of one
of the main policies of the leaders of
the AFi1-CIO and of Shanker-anti-Sov-;
ietis m i
Over a report.ot the AFT councils
'censorship. of 'a ,Selden column from the'i
American'.Teacheri the head s "Your'I
American-`Teacher Joins. Pravda.". In
Why the concentration-on the Sovietr
Union which seeks, detente. and peace,
and on Solzhenitsyn who would return
to the days of the Czars?' Why no cam-:
.paign against the torturers and murder-,
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ers of intellectuals, trade -unionists, . ?' ' almost half the total nurrrueL.
journalists in Chile, in. Spain, 'in ? the support of several leaders of big
Greece.' in Brazil, and elsewhere? Why . city locals. An intensive effort is tinder:
no picket.'signs protesting the "junta''s`' . way to round up delegates from other,
i treatment of the great..poet Pablo, Ne-. locals behind Shanker with: promises of
ce-presidencies' and more generous
The 'answer:should be ~obVious.:'The allocation of funds-
anti-Soviet campaign suits the purposes It is, therefore, most unlikely that
of the AFL-CIO leaders. Jay Lovestone, Selden will be ? elected. But he has
who is Meany's, chief foreign policy rightly pointed out the need to keep'.
adviser, and who has close ties -with alive continuing struggles within the
the: CIA.` said: "European trade union- AFT for a progressive, democratic un-:
ists for.detente is;simply the.moral.dis-ion. Such a campaign requires the wid-
,.armament of theWest.':.(May 19 issue est possible support at the convention
of the New York Teacher,; weekly pub-' from- delegates who are not out for of=
lication of the United. Federation of fice or personal gain, but for an AF'T
Teachers.) truly devoted to the interests of chil-
The anti-Soviet crusade suits the pur- dren and teachers.
poses of Senator Henry Jackson, most A campaign of that kind calls for op-
.strident - of Congressional . war`;': hawks position to Shanker's calculated .use of
during the war in 'Vietnam.'and 'other s anti-Sovietism to revive the cold war.
like him in the House' and the Senate.
It is of enormous help to the. Penta-
gon. which always presents the Soviet
Union as the enemy in a hot war to
come.' in order to secure ever-increas-
ing . military funds-now up to more
than $60 billion-for first strike and tac-
tical nuclear weapons and for the pro-
duction of more, horrible means of de-
What interest can teachers have in
promoting the anti-Soviet drive' There
has been no peace dividend which the
AFT delegates and members who op-
posed the Vietnam war expected. And
there will be no peace dividend-no
desperately needed funds for schools.
the same. issue`,' of the newsletter, Sol-'
den says>of the election in August: "It',
will be tough. ,but eve . should keep dis-. '
sent alive. ' I -. suppose Solzhenitsyn is
asking; himself these same. questions.
In the February issue of the.Ameri-
rail Teacher,` the issue which carried a
,two-pace spread on the AFT executive
council's case '.against Selden and cen-
sored -his' reply, there is a picture. of
Selden carrying- ''a' picket `sign'.,which
says "Freedom' for. Soviet Dissenters
If this is an attempt to win votes, it
is a futile gesture. Selden cannot hope
to compete with Shanker in ,the anti-
Sov ct league.
One wonders whq p pease 2004/11/01
that an anti-Soviet campaign has nothing
to do with .an honest, rational discus
sine of issues One wonders whether he
For the inevitable accompaniment o.:
that policy is a huge military budget.
voted at the expense of the needs of
the people including their public
schools.
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.Schools in the Nixori Era. This
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Celia Zitron's columns, is avail-
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West 10th St., New York 10011,
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With George Meany's "deep personal regret.'-' Jay
Lovestone retires, effective-June 30, from his post as di-
rector. of the- AFL-CIO's-: International Affairs- Depart-
ment. Technically, he held'that post since 1963. Actually.
he ran that. department since the merger of 1955 .under
one. or another--title. and:.since the mid-thirties whether..
on the payroll cif-the International. Ladies Garment Garment. Work
ers or the old AFL_:
For"almost: all---of' the 45 years "But it has been stated without an enormous grasp of foreign in-
since he was flushed out of the.-, equivocation- that the CIA, headed- telligence, operations.", So much
Communist Party'?Lovestone was-j by :Allan Dulles;, the brother ofI ' CIA money went, through Love-
building a bridge- between U.S -tbe-secretary~of_state, has-ia re-= stone's=hands:that at one _ttme
intelligence and the labor move- Genf years.obtained .much of his; -the agency-came to "Lovestone's
ment, While it is=in the pages of principal-information about inter supertors --Meany,Dubinskyand
the Daily Worker'-and. most often nations: Communism. from Love-; Woll-to complain that there was
in.-this column-that. Loves tone-: stone:" Lahey;:also,observed that no.. accounting : ' "Lovestone and;
was tagged forhis real profession. Lovestone "most of his life has his bunch are doing .a good job.
reams of copy- in= the capitalist- been occupied-with the arts of in What more' do you want?" was!
press exposing his. . role were-. .trigue, espionage and subversion" the reply
never denied by hirnior the AFL { and'. that he is a "magnet for
and .AFL-CIO.- persons-in socialist countries who! More :recently, ouldens biog l
ra her, Jose h C- Goulden; (Mea-
There will. be no basic change have "soured p p
-Strong
in the AFL -CIO s international '-Twelve .years later in the Mav ny; the Unchallenged
afairs, however--.Ernest S. Lee,'! 20. 1967 Saturday Evening Post.-? Man) had f-Lo , Lo copy on the op-
stone and his!
erations of
;,leany's son-inlaw_? has. been Thomas Braden-,. (now .a'colum "superiors." :-Retired Richard
Lovestone's assistant, groomed- nist) who: was:ln the,earIy fif - Deverall who .was Lovestoiie's
for the job, since :I9b Lee's re ties top assistant to "Allan_Dulles, j operative'-.in - Asia told Goulden
lotion to _ Lovestone's operations. ; ,described.: how he fathered the
Ian farther back when he was in-_ 1' scheme for setting up phony foun- I in .an interview ."Many times I
was in Lovestone's office in New
ternational affairs director of - dations exposed in 1966 to'serve j York, one.-of those he got from
the Retail Clerks, when it was - as channels for CIA money to an
headed by James Suffridge, close .-.assortment of existing union stu Dubinsky, and-a man- would come
friend of `Many. Suffridge was dent" or cultural organizations. or in with a stack of:cri p new bun
deed-dollar bills;'L'ovestone would.
the most coooerative to the AFL's newly-formed--outfits. to provide sign a.receipt for therri:'t Goulden
CIloperations cover for CIA operations abroad. adds that when he first=joined
Subsequently, Lee.. was Suf The big problem for the CIA was: Lovesfone's `staff;' .Deverall..did
fridge's man in the. International how to get' a 'labor cover" ,in not know: the source ?-of the: new;
I ederaticn of the .Commercial, ; Europe for the'--CIA. into the,-! hundred dollar bills but later
Clerical and Technical Employes crisis stepped? Lovestone and his. . `satisfied myself they came from
International Trade- Secretariat assistant- :Irving Brown,"_wrote the CIA
He is ;ualified for the role as Braden He related how until =~ ?
a graduate of Georgetown Uni '1950, Lovestone's operators relied -. Lovestone wasn't just an opera-
varsity's School of Foreign Serv = on funds from 'Dubinsky's union'-< five on foreign-affairs In the late
ice. the division- that is to this with which they created the split thirties -he' was the adviser to
day a partner with the AFL-CIO's :,away from the French. labor-] Ford agent HornierMartin for. a
the -United
t, orld affairs undertakings. movement. ``F'arce Ouvriere splitting operation, in.
The late _dwin A. Lahey, whom his agents in the secessionist out--
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r;ere both coverin6 the s lint si.E they applied to- the CIA, he con-
referring to the foursome Walter Reuther with a sum of.
down strike .l for the DW, he timed
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for the Chicago Daily News-had $25.000 for" the latter s factional
who ran AFL.world affairs-&Iat- 1:
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August 20, 1955. He wrote in the UAW
I Lovestone as secretary of their
n
.Ys "Lovestone's office in New I- . "Free Trade Union Committee.", So Means' and Dubinsky have
York is :i 'drop joint' for a well much reason .for'--regret"--over
known system of intelligence-'; "Thus began the secret subsidy "Jay's departure.- Buf many of:
'eats Lo "stone insists rather of free trade unions which soon 'Mean
-! y's friends An the.-.-.labor.
s`teepis:7ly that there is no formal- -spread to Italy." Lovestone was movement.will have no regrets.
connection between himself and supplied with $2. million a year Almost: everybodylong ago-hoped
the Central Intelligence- agency, for those operations.- {or his departure. but-wouldn't
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While making the rounds in Is-
rael, the delegation, according to
AFL-CIO News. visited the Afro-
Asian Institute in Tel Aviv to ob-
serve "Ilistadrut's programs on
behalf of emerging nations." Al-
though virtually all African na-
tions broke relations with Israel
over its subservience to U.S. im-
perialism, the Institute is still ac-
tive.
It is a CIA operation, financed
by the AFL-CIO but formally oper-
ated by Ilistadrut. It is part of the
I general program under the AFL-
CIO's Jay Lovestone. providing
labor cover for U.S. intelligence
in Africa. The so-called training
of African unionists for "leader-
ship" is similar to the Latin-Amer-
ican operation, the American In-
stitute for Free Labor Develop-
. meat (AIFLD), financed to the
tune of about 1,8 million annually.
mostly by the U.S. government.
The African project, also most-
ly financed by the Agency fdr In-
ternational Development, was di-
rected until last year by Irving
Brown. Lovestone's 4o. 2 man.
long a hardly-concealed CIA oper-
ative. During the CIA scandal of
1936-67. when the Lovestone-
Meany relationship with the CIA
was exposed, AI 1I). and the Afri-
can American Labor Council.
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"The American Challenge," sub-
titled "A Social Democratic Program
for the Seventies," offers an elaborate
presentation of Right social democratic
program and theory. It was adopted at
the convention in December 1972 when
the Socialist Party USA and the Demo-
cratic Socialist 'Federation of the USA
were merged into the Social Democrats
USA.
It had been given a dry run, and adopt-
ed, the.previous week by the convention
.of the Young People's Socialist League,
the youthful branch of Right social de-
mocracy.
What kind of "movement" is SDUSA?
"In the rest of the world," SDUSA
says, "social democracy is a mass move-
ment." But.not in the United States. "We
are not a mass movement here:" On the
other hand, "neither are we a sect."
What, then, are "we"?
v ation of Jay Lovestone or Irving Brown,
two liaisons between Meany and the CIA.
These SDUSAers, serving Meany and
the CIA, "make up the core of operatives
under the three - government financed
"Our members play active and often
leading roles". in "the trade unions, lib-
eral organizations, civil rights struggles."
The importance of Social Democrats.
USA does not lie' in the number of its
members, which is small; nor in the
originality of its thought, which is nil;'
nor in leadership of a mass movement.
Its importance, and that is substan-
tial, lies in an odd-couple relationship
with the hierarchy of the AFL-CIO, a
relationship which has developed strong-
ly in the last few years.
It is strongly represented in the AFL-
CIO educational, public relations, pub-
lications, and research activities, and in
the top administration.
George Morris has spelled out these
ties (Daily World,. November 3 and 6,
1973). the ties to George Meany, and with-
in the executive council of the AFL-CIO;
to the International Ladies Garment
Workers Union and the Jewish Labor
Committee and "through that committee
(to) Jewish officials id a number of other
uniohs, with their voice the Jewish Daily
Forward," to the Randolph Institute, A.
Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin, and Nor-
man Hill; to the F'rontlash organization
'for youth voter registration. whose offi-
'cials are on the AFL-CIO payroll.
There's another area of involvement.
SDUSA does 'not boast of it., despite its
importance. "Many SD adherents have
landed in CIA service in one or another
forth," Morris noted, on the recommend-
Asia. under AFL-CIO direction."Morris
pointed out.
What kind of movement, then, is
SDUSA?
It is not, does not pretend to be and.
apparently, does not propose to become.
a social democratic movement in the
European tradition.
. It is, in the first place, a two-way oper-
. ation between Meany and the SDUSA,
with the CIA as an unseen third party.
Meany sees the SDUSA as a reliable
channel to liberal and intellectual.ci.rcles
which were revolted by his blatant parti-
cipation in the Vietnam war incitement.
More broadly, he sees the SDUSA as
a means for establishing a -Social"
presence for the AFL-CIO leadership,
perhaps even a socialistic presence, as a
means for providing an ideological pres-
ence in a world where ideological struggle
is crucial.
The SDUSA sees Meany, and the re-
sources he commands. as providing mass
resonance for the aims of Right social
democracy.
They have renounced, seemingly. the
task of building a mass social demo-
cratic movement from the ground up;
they propose to construct such a :move-
ment from the top (Meany) down.
Their intention is to utilize the official
channels of the AFL-CIO hierarchy, ari its satellite operations, for ideologica penetration of the working class. Abroac
the path will be smoothed by Jay Love.
stone's CIA connections.
(Coming: SDUSA II Right social
democracy's view of capitalism.)
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The one thing that stood out most in the recent AFL-
CIO convention was the effort by the George Meany leader-
ship to revive the "good old days" of the cold war. They
look upon the Mideast war and tensions as a godsend. Their
interest in a "Jewish homeland" and in the alleged democ-
racy of Israel is of secondary concern, if at all.
The Social Democrats are es- But where does this plan really
pecially active in efforts to revive come from? We turn to an article
old cold war patterns in the AFL- in the May 20, 1967 issue of the old
CIO's campaign to nullify the de- Saturday Evening Post, by Thom-
tente treaties, block trade agree-teas W. Braden, entitled "I'm Glad
ments 'with Socialist countries,
and activate their contracts within
the Socialist lands to surface as
"dissidents."
An example is a project Albert
Shanker, head of the New York
Teachers, seeks to initiate. He
moved through the American Fed-
eration of Teachers' 21-member
council majority a resolution in-
troduced in the convention entitled
"The Plight of Soviet Dissidents."
It'is a long diatribe centered on
Andrei Sakharov's and Alexsandr
Solzhenitsyn's periodic press con-
ferences attacking the Soviet Un-
ion and giving an impression there
'is a mass rebellion in the USSR.
That type of stuff had, however.
been covered in several other res-
olutions of the convention. But the
resolution of the teachers calls
for "AFL-CIO sponsorship of a
world conference on international
freedom." Because of the action
required, the resolution was re-
ferred to the executive council of
the AFL-CIO. .
. 0
The origin of the resolution is
really "The Committee for De-
The CIA Is Immoral."
That was the article in which
Braden, who was a top official
of the Central Intelligence Agency
in its early stages, described how
in 1950 he handed the AFL's Irv-
ing Brown $15.000 for 'a payoff to
gangsters in Mediterranean ports
who attacked Communist-led long-
shoremen. He described how the
CIA went to the AFL and how
Lovestone was assigned to the job
of directing CIA "labor" opera-
tions in Europe with two million
dollars of CIA money annually to
spend. Then he described how
under Lovestone's and Meany's di-
rection an organized movement
was established to smash what
they called "Communist-led"
unions in France, Italy and other
lands. Braden went on.
"Thus was the international or-
ganization division of the CIA
born.' and thus began the first cen-
tralized effort to combat Com-
munist fronts."
Taking credit for the idea, Bra-
den boasted of the way various
cultural schemes and orchestra
tours were initiated with CIA
tente with Freedom" of which money:
Albert Shanker and Bayard Rus- "And there was Encounter, the
tin, both Social Democrats, are magazine published in England,
co-chairinen. It was initiated by and dedicated to the proposition
the SD and, as published in the that cultural achievement and
April 25 New America, the SD political freedom were interde-
paper, carried the. signatures of pendent. Money for both the or-
such unreconstructed cold war- chestra's tour and the magazine
riors as Sidney Hook, professor came from the CIA, and few out-
comes
tions."
EE
S V C -l o ( . l C. N C a u .v i'
"Why not fee if the needed
money could be obtained from
'American foundations.' " Braden
went on. "As the agents knew, the
CIA-financed foundations were
quite generous when it came to
the national interest.
"I remember with great pleas-
ure the day'an agent came in with
the news that four national stu-
dent organizations had broken
away from the Communist Inter-
national Union of Students and
joined our student outfit instead."
It was the exposure of the way
CIA money. financed student
groups that exploded in 1967 into
an exposure of financing of unions
and operations in the fields of
culture through fake foundations.
Several years ago Christopher
Lash wrote a long piece in the Na-
tion magazine describing bitterly
how many intellectuals were
suckered into these CIA opera-
tions.
Lovestone, Shanker, et al, ap-
parently believe they can find
enough new suckers for a repeat
performance.
emeritus of NYU; John Roche, side the CIA knew about it: We
New America and AFL-CIO mew's had placed one agent in it Europe-
columnist, and. several members based organization. called the
of the SD's executive board and Congress for Cultural Freedom.
some International Ladies Gar- :Another agent became the editor
went Workers Union officials. The of Encounter."
resolution is a rewrite of that ad oted that those drawn
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By CELIA ZIT RON
NEW YORK, Oct. 12 - Albert Shanker, president of.
the United Federation of Teachers, is seeking to get the
'AFL-CIO to sponsor a new cold war movement.
This is the gist of what is de- dom." The statement also endors-
scribed as "a major policy state- es the amendment of Sen. Henry
ment?' published in the Oct. 7 issue Jackson (F-Wash) to block non-
of The New York Teacher, week- discriminatory tariffs on trade
ly organ of the UFT. ' with the Soviet Union unless the
The policy statement was adopt- Soviet Union changes its alleged
ed by the Shanker-controlled UFT emigration barriers.
executive board on Sept. 24 and The policy statement would
was referred to the-'local's parent shift the national AFT, which was
body,. the American Federation opposed to the war in Vietnam, to.
of Teachers, AFL-CIO.: The AFT, a return to the cold war.
,'in turn, forwarded mail ballots Reflecting the views of Shank-
to its 21-member executive coun- er and his right-wing Social Dem-
cil for their votes. ocratic cronies, the statement
If approved by the executive would have the AFL-CIO take over
council, the policy statement directly and openly the cold war
would then be placed by the AFT work of the Central Intelligence,
before the AFL-CIO convention, Agency'. From 1950 to 1967, the'
opening Oct. 18 in Miami Beach. CIA secretly supported the Con- -
There it is expected that George gress for Cultural Freedom, which
Meany, A`I'L-CIO president, and published magazines in England,
Jay Lovestone, his foreign. of West Germany, Austria, France
'fairs adviser, would push the and Italy. The English magazine,
matter. Encounter, received an annual
. Back Jackson amendment subsidy of $30.000.
The 1500-word UFT statement, Funds revealed
which repeats every anti-Soviet During the exposure of CIA ac-
slander, proposes that the AFL- tivities in the late '60s, there was
CIO consider sponsoring a "world- testimony that AFL-CIO organi-
conference on intellectual free zations and related groups re-
ceived large sums from the CIA.
'$ome of the groups receiving CIA
funds channeled through the AFL-
CIO included the International
Confederation of Free Trade Un-
ions, the Institute of International
Labor Research, the African-
American Labor Center and the
American Institute for Free Labor
Development.
A number of U.S. unions also
received CIA funds, the News-
paper Guild as much as a million
dollars.
The Meany leadership of the
AFL-CIO still carries on its anti-
Soviet, pro-war propaganda, not
only at home but among workers
in Latin-America, Africa, Asia.
It has broken with the ICFTU be-
cause it considered it insuflicient-
.ly anti-Communist.
The UFT executive board now
'proposes that the AFL-CIO also
take over the anti-Soviet, pro-war
activities among intellectuals.
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the world than any in history, is defended by
Curran. The demagogy he uses is that this is a
continuation of the struggle against fascism.
This will fool no one. U.S. imperialism is doing
today what German imperialism did under Hit-
ler. The forces who fought fascism are today
fighting against U.S. imperialism. The forces
s,.i
_ . .
who defended f
i'y GUS
1:S ti nt-TNED to Pass up idiotic drivel
without co:rment, WVhen asinine and fraudulent
statcn.ents are made by public figures, then it
is necessary to speak up. The column by Joseph
Curran, President of the National Maritine
Union, in the December issue of "The .Pilot"
calls for an answer.
he only truthful word in the whole piece
is the title "Passing the Word." The CIA's pro-
Pat,:,nda department has a large stable of pro-
fc;sioral fni:ifier" who, for e.,::li, grind nut filthy
rcdb:dtin; fiction by the ton. In the trade union
roveinert this odious bilge is pumped for pub=
lication by a Jay Lovestone who holds down a
desk in the front office of the AFL-CIO. This
drivel i
bl?
y official who
inced,
a
ng uas always b
"" -- ?- Lyres. IT took a lot
f
,
nc
tiding our trade union movement. And in retrospect one must say that the
damage to the trade union movem
estimable. ent was in-
It takes a lot of redhaitin
t
g
o cover f th
ore
crimes of the U.S. aggression against Vietnam.
And it took a wave of fanatical redbaiting for
the Meant'-Lovestone-Dubinsky clique to put
over an endorsement of these crimes of the john-
son administration at the recent AFL-CIO con-
vention.
Curran's column, entitled "The War in Viet-
nam-part of America's Defensive Freedom,"
and his redbaiting speeches' at the convention
are also a part of this camouflage.
The column by Curran is a rehashing of all
the fraudulent filth that was ever peddled by
any anti-labor, anti-democratic demagogue from
Hitler to Hoover, from Eastland to Welch. It
must have been the sanity stable that shoveled
out the swill for the Adiiiinistration spokesmen
at tl;,! AFL-CIO convention, because it is diffi-
cult to say where Rusk's speech ended and Cur-
ran's began.
The ugly imperialist aggression against Viet-
nam, that is more unanim
l
s crossed th bd
nstrumentf li
eounaries o sttin"
and weak-
in Vietnam, the Dominican Republic Taiwan
bosTaiwan ening of the trade unions. They know ot wthe r
and was instrumental in ts- own experience that workers can n not win by
daries of Egypt, Jordan and Syria. cringing and grovellin
he crossing of t a employers or
. before
. column talks about the danger their spokesman in government
"ComCurramun'
nist global' take-over." This is a :bread01 - timely Curran has faller. for this ultra-Right
bare defense of the greatest "takeover" ad swill is not the most important
world has ever known. U.S. Imperialism is now he has , is important and it cannot Uet denied or
ignored.
-
-
--^an?~o~av.. uy
__ ?? a-, i,lstru
saying, "Allmcnt of a lost cause.
Communist countries' act as if there were "All Americans and American workers will draw
. no
such things as national boundaries. Such idi'oc from their lessors gain ed in the strugg cCa cannot cover up the undeniable facts that it is baiting thyisrn of the fillies. They knew l thatared-
anst
U.S. of cover
baiting is an i
that ha
A rove or
the largest colonial power in history; it exploitslt
more hum-n b
i
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ngs than a
ny power in histor ,
it has more war bases around the world thanar y
government in history. U.S. capitalism controls,
than more industries, banks and utilities overseas
any class in history. A11 the rcbaiting in
the world will not cover, up this banditry.
Curran says, "Our hopes of worldwide solida-
rity of workers through the World Federation of
nistsTrad.e" Unions were torpedoed by the Commu.
It is too late for this big li
S
i
e
. expos
nce the public
ure of some of the operations of the CIA
no one will buy this hogwash. 'Because it is now
common knowledge based on exposure and open
confessions that it was U.S. bug busines through
the CIA, through Lovestone,,'Meany and Dubin-
sky, that set out to split the trade union ment. It move-
is now common knowledge that they,
spent sums running into hundreds of millions. to
buy, to corrupt trade union officials around the
world to split the trade unions. The very latest
of these exposes and confessions by labor leaders
comes from Finland where trade ur' : loaders
admitted being on the CIA payroll fo:
fie purpose ? of splitting the trade unions of Pin-
land.
No amount of redbaiting is going to
the fact that, because of boot licking scover up
ubservi-
ence to big business by the AFL-CIO leadership,
the labor federation h
as becom
e more isolated
from the trade c;',ions of the world-than at any
time in histo: trade union
the world has rc;cet movement of
ed
that the very redbaiting filth
Curran now
d
pe
dles
.
In this column Curran trots out
ultra-Right fascist garbage 'such
gold," "subversion " etc
all of the old
as "Moscow
It takes a lot to,
cover up an-ugly unjust war
of imperialist aggression. The Lovestonc stables
pulled, out all stops so Curran could say, --In
Vietnam it requires full scale tear." And in his
speech at the convention, to add a call for, and
a prediction of an armed U.S. aggression against
the Republic of Cuba.
The redbaiting at the AFL-CIO convention
became the cover for the reactionary policies of
its top leadership. But, in spite Of' this., it' took
rive members of the President's Cabinet, army'
brass and dozens of other government. officials
and the prepared redbaiting trash to keep down
the voices of.revolt even within a convention
whose delegates were largely :hand-picked.
Curran is not "passing the word" of the sea-
men. They will blush with anger and shame be-
cause the name f o th
is greati
unon is being used
as
laboran instrument of the most reactionary anti-
forces in the world. Curran is "passing the
word" of the C*A ,.:_ .
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By KEN CLAWSON
Blade Staff Writer
JAY LOVESTONE, ',, : ctor
of the AF 710's r
tional affair oartni
?lects and di ates to . dirsl
agencies ie e-i ence iior ,ra-
tion gathered by in vorld-
wide network if later con-
tarts.
The 68?year-oid Lovestone,
former secretary - general of
the Amerk . Communist
party who has turned with a
vengeance on his former ideol-
ogy, emphatically d e n i e s,
however, t h a t he acts as
an agent of the Centr..' .Intel-
ligenee Agency (CIA) or has
ever "acccptec_ CIA funds.
"I am a trade unionist and
an American," be said. "When
our people come up with infor-
mation vital to the national se-
curtly, I turn it over to the
proper authorities."
Ile added that labor offi-
cials abroad and foreign
trade unionists trained under
the AFL-CIO international af-
fairs department supervision
often discover information of
an intelligence nature 'be-
cause they are closer to the
people.
"These Harvard and Yale
graduates that work for our
government can't get infor-
mation because they have no
rapport with the people. They
look down on the people."
IT HAS been charged that
like many converts, Mr.
Lovestone approaches his
work with an overzealousness
t h at borders on fanaticism.
Two of his sharpest critics
are the brothers, Walter and
Victor Reuther, 6f the United
Auto Workers.
j While Mr. Lovestone. and
f his boss, AFL-CIO pres;dent,
George M e a n y, admittedly
follow an anti-Communist for-
of UAW's ' `'rtiational af-
fairs, acre'-'-14tical demo-
cratic a n u -1it1 reform
abroad.
The two sid(-; oi,on
clashed over tl' ii ('runt
philosophies on ,-, ral
affairs. These cia .: .s are
part of the widening riot. be-
tween the UAW and ;he na-
tional AFL-CIO, and contrib-
uted to Walter cuther's
resignation from all but one
of his federation offices.
Mr. 'Lovestone, who de-
lights in pointing out what he
regards as inconsistencies of
the Reuthers, said: "For all
that the Rcuthers have to say
about our operational meth-
ods, don't forget that it was
Victor who accepted CIA
money."
'DIFFERENCES In ideolo-
gy, he said, are illustrated
by an underground movement
in which the AFL-CIO cur-
rently is involved in Spain.
Mr. Lovestone said that the
anti-Franco movement c o n-
sists of trade unlonisl , (-4dh-
olics, anarchists, ever] 11104+-
archists, but no Comtnunisis.
"Victor would h1+`e us in-
clude me Commoi,4istns and
the Falangists, but we know
better. These latter as
would form a coalition .. in
Franco and crush the Move-
ment."
Critics of Mr.. Loves Lone
maintain that no area gets
more attention, advice, money,
and intelligence agents than
Latin America. The vehicle rv
which Mr. Lovestone operates
is the American Institute for
Free L a b o r Development
(AIFLD), which has as its
U.S. Government counterpart
the Agency f o r International
Development (AID).
FUNCTIONS of AIFLT) are
to train Latin workers in
democratic unionism and to
provide housing, banks, and
other institutions f o r. them.
Mr. Lovestone is partic-
ularly proud of the number
of Central and South Ameri=
can unionists who have been
schooled in an international
affairs program in Front
Royal, Va. He is vague on 1
the number of graduates,
variously stating figures of
7,000, 10,000 and 12,000. One f
of the students' prime objec-
tives is to learn to "answer i
Communist arguments and
deal with Red agitators."
At the recent national AFL-
CIO convention in Miami
Beach, Fla.., it was reported-!
that the federation has spent
$250,000 on AIFLD in the last i
two years. Another $50,000
was appropriated. M a n y
tithes. this amount, however,
comes from AID.
LENDING credence to Mr.
Lovestone's continuing con-
tact with these cadres of
Latin unionists 'is the fact
that they are paid a year's
salary by AIFLD following
their return home. Mr. Love-
stone said the amount per in-
dividual ranges from $1,000
to $2,000, and the funds are
to sustain trainees until they
re-enter their local labor
force.
Mr. Lovestone says he has
few pleasures in life aside
from his work, w h i c h.j
normally occupies about 18
hours a day. He speaks with
a seemingly inexhaustible
supply of information about
labor activities in nearly
every corner of the world,
including Africa. He is pow-
erful in foreign affairs within
the Johnson Administration,
as many disappointed candi-
dates for government jobs
abroad can attest.
His current worry concerns
a movement by West German .
trade unions toward affilia-
tion with labor organizations
from the Communist bloc.
Mr. Lovestone believes that
it is impossible to coexist
w i t h Communists because
"they have no desire to co-
exist; it is just that the Com-
munists are becoming less
brutal. and more subtle in
their. effort toward w o r 1 d
eign policy line, Wa~e~~r Reu- HE GIVES DAT,,~~ r Y domination."
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L.5. Labor's
Conservative Role
in Latin America
by SUSANNE BODENHEIMER
. "Not one penny of CIA money has
ever come in to the AFL or the AFL-
CIO to my knowledge over the last
twenty years, and I say to you if it
had come in, I would know about
it. . . . I take a great deal of pride
in the work we've done overseas and
I resent the fact that the CIA is try-
ing to horn in on it and say that
they have done some of it."
-GEORGE MEANY, President of AFL-
CIO, denying charges of Central Intel-
ligence Agency subsidies to AFL-CIO,
May 8, 1967
I MAGINE, for the moment, that
George Meany is incapable of tell-
ing a lie. Suppose that the AFL-CIO's
expensive campaign to promote "dem-
ocratic unionism" abroad-particularly
in Latin America-is not being
charged to the ever-expanding account
of the "invisible government," are its
motivations and methods so different
from those of the CIA, and has Meany
any reason to take pride in that
campaign?
The apparatus of the AFL-CIO's
Latin American program, since World
War II has been 'geared to a continu-
ation of the Cold War. Through its
principal instrument, the Tnt rAsn ert-
can RerionalOrganization of Workers
GRIT founded in 1n to compete
with leftist and Peronist labor organ-
izers, the AFL-CIO has constructed a
network of "free and democratic"
unions throughout Latin America.
This is supplemented by the Ina-
tional Trade Secretariats (ITS), which
coordinate activities among unions in
the same trade or industry throughout
the world. The third agency of the
AFL-CIO in Latin America is the
American Institute for Free Labor De-.
velooment (AIFLD), which brings to-
gether the resources of American
labor, American business, and the U.S.
Government.
Like official U.S. policy-makers, the
AFL-CIO is ambivalent toward social
change in Latin America and vacil-
lates between a desire to win over
Latin Americans with promises of
gradual social reform and a tendency
to rely on "safe"-military and oligar-
chic-forces which stifle even peaceful
social progress. With one hand Ameri-
can labor holds out offers of educa-
tion and financial aid, and simultane-
ously, with the other hand, wields the
"big stick" of intervention.
A widely-advertised attraction. of
the AFL-CIO operation south of the
Rio Grande is the AIFLD educational
program, which has reached more
"i'1"ai n MI,000 Latin American unionists
since 1962. Scholarships to the AIFLD
Institute in the United States are
awarded to the "star" pupils in local
and regional AIFLD seminars,
recruited and screened by AFL-CIO
and ORIT representatives. After com-
pleting the three-month "advanced
course" and returning to their own
countries, the most promising students
remain on the AIFLD payroll as
"interns" for nine months.
SUSANNE BODENHEIMER specialized In
Latin American political development at
Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. She gathered the mate-
rial for this article while engaged In re-
search at the Institute for Policy Studies
in Washington-research based largely
on interviews with American and Latin
American labor officials. She now lives
In Latin America.
the pleasant, rolling Virginia country-
side, more than seventy-five miles
from Washington, D.C., is the AIFLD
Institute. Originally located in Wash-
ington, it was moved to Virginia, ac-
cording to AIFLD officials, to provide
a ."more peaceful" environment for
study. Students are without cars or bus
service to "the monastery," as they have
nick-named it, and are seldom exposed
to the distractions of the big city. None
of the students I met there spoke
English and few seemed engrossed in
their studies.
All AIFLD students major in anti-
Communism, a subject which their
instructors, some of whom are Cuban
exiles, are well qualified to teach.
According to the AIFLD Report, stu-
dents from several countries spend
more hours in the "democracy and
totalitarianism" course ("democracy"
American-style, "totalitarianism" Com-
munist-style) than on any other sub-
ject. Through "role-playing" exercises,
students gain practice in countering
Communist infiltration. But while
AIFLD graduates have acquired exper-
tise in ousting Communists (or anyone
who looks Communist to AFL-CIO
advisers), they are ill-equipped by
their AIFLD education to meet equal-
ly potent challenges from rightwing
dictatorial governments or entrenched'
land-owning and business interests. Al-
though ninety per cent of the land
in Latin America is controlled by ten
per cent of the landholders, land re-
form receives scant attention in the
AIFLD curriculum.
Central to AIFLD's program is the
premise, as its director, William
Doherty, put it to the Council for
Latin America (an American business
men's group) on February 11, 1966,
that "The great bulk of the 15,000,000
organized workers in Latin America
think, want, and desire almost identi-
cally with their counterparts in the
United States." On the dubious as-
sumption that American unionism is
exportable, AFL-CIO educators have
focused on "bread and butter" issues
-higher wages, better working condi-
tions, more fringe benefits-to be ob-
tained through the collective bargain-
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whiic necessary, are insufficient as ob-
ec~ives for Latin American workers,
and cannot be attained solely through
collective bargaining without structural
reforms in the distribution of re-
sources and income and the establish-
ment of democratic process in their
national governments.
Latin American workers are still
fighting battles which American labor
won many years ago. A mere ten to
fifteen per cent of the active labor
force is organized. Lacking funds and
political influence, even those repre-
sented by unions are not regarded as an-
autonomous pressure group whose in-
terests and needs demand serious con-
sideration. Moreover, the rights of
labor, particularly in state-run enter-
prises and public services, are general-
ly limited by government labor codes
regulating wage increases, strikes, and
collective. bargaining. In many coun-
tries employers are required to bargain
only with unions officially recognized
by tha govcrnmant.
Particularly inappropriate as an
example for Latin Americans is the
AFL-CIO's outlook toward free enter-
prise and the big business community.
As witness Doherty's words to the
Council for Latin America, "We be-
lieve in the capitalist system and .. .
are dedicated to its preservation."
Latin American unionists also oppose
nationalization of industry, he contin-
ued, and, "like ourselves, they would
want government to step in and inter-
fere in the affairs of business and
labor only in case of national emer-
gency. . . ." AIFLD is symbolic of
American labor's comfortable relation-
ship with business; as Doherty said in
radio interviews in December, 1963,
"We welcome [the] cooperation [of
management] not only financially but
in terms of establishing our poli-
cies. . . . The cooperation between
ourselves. and the business community
is getting warmer day by day."
But for Latin American workers,
who confront vested and generally
unprogressive industrial and land-own-
ing interests, such benevolence toward
big business would be suicidal if wide-
ly accepted. Imagine a Chilean copper
miner "open-minded" enough to em-
brace an organization whose board
included-as AIFLD's does-Charles
November, 1967
Those who do adopt the AFL-CIO
philosophy have displayed a marked
lack of militancy toward business.
ORIT affiliates in several countries
have fostered company unions. In
many countries the AFL-CIO has en-
couraged its proteges to pull out of
coalitions with more militant elements,
even at the risk of forming parallel
unions. ORIT affiliates have engaged
in practices which violate even the
principles of American-style unionism
and which are regarded by more
active Latin-American unionists as
anti-obrero-an ti-worker.
Thus the AFL-CIO has offered an
educational program and a philosophy
divorced from the agenda for basic
social change in Latin America, in the
hope of persuading Latin American
workers to settle for "bread and but-
ter unionism"-a poor substitute, at
best.
Where ideas fail to convince, ma-
terial assistance often becomes pcrsua-
,iva. American labor's access to U.8
foreign aid funds is tempting bait to
impoverished Latin American unions.
Since the inception of the Alliance
for Progress, the AFL-CIO has had a
virtual monopoly over its union pro-
grams. Early expectations that Alli-
ance labor funds would be available
to the liberal Social Christian Trade
Union Confederation of Latin Ameri-
ary ORIT were dashed, for the labor
advisory committee to the Alliance
included only AFL-CIO representa-
tives, and since 1962 the AIFLD Social
Projects Department has been the for-
mal agency for channeling Alliance
funds to 'Latin American labor.
W-M
Ironically, AFL-CIO control over
Alliance funds has caused fewer prob-
lems for those excluded than for the
intended beneficiaries. In one country
after another, union leaders have
eagerly accepted AIFLD offers of
loans for housing projects, only to
find that the strings attached re-
stricted their freedom and in some
cases violated national laws.
In Uruguay a $5 million AIFLD-
sponsored housing project for the
ORIT-affiliated Uruguayan Labor
Federation fell through when the Uru-
guay representatives refused to sign
AIFLD's "letter of intention," naming
AIFLD "as their sole agent before
any . . . organization . . . for the pro-
curing and realization of the loan,"
and granting AIFLD the "permanent
right" to veto applicants for the proj-
ect "for trade union and political rea-
sons"-terms which violated Uruguay-
an law. During the planning stages of
a $3 million housing project for sugar
workers in the Dominican Repub-
lic, the Inter-American Development
Bank, which was to have provided
two-thirds of the money, withdrew its
loan in objection to AIFLD's insis-
tence that both the construction and
the occupancy of the project be
restricted to unions affiliated with
ORIT. In addition, AIFLD violated
Dominican law by awarding contracts
in a private rather than an open bid-
ding and favored American firms.
The U.S. Agency for International
Development later bailed out AIFLD
by financirlg the construction of 110
of the projected 700 to 900 units.
If , their exclusion of non-
ORIT unions appears narrow-minded,
AIFLD officials are more flexible
about cooperating with dictatorial and
military regimes. This is disguised
through the convenient myth of
"union-to-union" programs, by which
AIFLD can continue direct aid to
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se.;a ung to bypass these governments.
But in practice, AIFLD must deal
with governmental agencies, thereby
indirectly lending moral and material
support to these regimes. In Honduras,
for example, after the right-wing mili-
tary coup of October, 1963-even be-
fore the U.S. Government had re-es-
tablished diplomatic relations=AIFLD
was pressing for resumption of work
on its housing project for a railroad
workers' union.
In countries other than pre-Castro
Cuba the AFL-CIO has urged non-
action in the face of military take-
overs. Following such coups in Guate-
mala in 1954, in the Dominican Re-
public and Honduras in 1963, and in
Brazil in 1964, ORIT-affiliated unions,
acting on AFL-CIO advice, refused to
join. other unions in general strikes or
even verbal protests, on the grounds
that repressive action would be tak-
en against unions expressing opposi-
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tion. In addition, AFL-CIO officials
explain, "Unions should not become
involved in partisan causes or use
strikes as political weapons."
Such official AFL-CIO ideology not-
withstanding, the rhetoric of "apoliti-
cal unionism" is discarded and, overtly
partisan actions taken when expedien-
cy requires. Soon after the 1964 coup
in Brazil, AIFLD Director Doherty
told radio interviewers, "I am certain-
ly not against Brazilian labor getting
involved in politics." Apparently not,
for at the time of the coup AIFLD
graduates were active in mobilizing
labor support for. it and in ensuring
its success. As Doherty boasted, "Some
of [the unionists trained at AIFLD]
. became involved in some of the
clandestine operations of the rev-
olution before it took place on
April 1. . . ." Doherty's claim has.
Iircn ( rudiy confirmed by gihcr
AFL-CIO officials I Interviewed and
other popularizers of the so-called
"revolution" by which the military
overthrew President Coulart's govern-
ment. -
An October, 1966, Reader's `Digest
article related that one AIFLD-trained,
communications union leader ran ~sen'i''
inars in Brazil in which "he warned
key workers of coming trouble and
urged them to keep communications
going, no matter what happened;" as
a result, when the call went out in
April, 1964, for a general strike to
protest the coup, "the wires kept hum-
ming and the army was able to coor-
dinate troop movements that ended
the showdown bloodlessly. . . ." Just
as they had lauded the CIA-instigated
takeover in Guatemala ten years pre-
viously, AFL-CIO officials endorsed
the Brazilian coup. For two and one
half years American labor continued
to support the military regime, al-
though its anti-inflation measures and
strict regulation of wages, its severe
strike laws, and its purge of union
leadership greatly weakened Brazilian
labor.
In the Dominican Republic, those
same "non-partisan" ORIT-dominated
labor officials who refused to fight
during the 1965 revolution, had no
qualms earlier about participating in
the political activities which helped
bring down the Bosch regime in 1963.
In his memoirs, former President
Bosch singled out leaders of the Do-
minican ORIT affiliate as openly fa-
voring the coup against him.
In British Guiana the AFL-CIO
participated directly in a three-year
campaign to oust the constitutionally
elected government of Cheddi Jagan,
through assistance to the British Gui-
ana Trades Union Council (TUC)-
the anti-Jagan ORIT affiliate which
worked closely with Forbes Burnham's
People's National Congress (PNC), the
principal opposition party to Jagan.
AFL-CIO leaders and their Guian-
ese proteges were deeply implicated in
the terrorism and racial violence
which accompanied the strike. A
secret report of September, 1963,
from the British police superinten-
dent in British Guiana to the British
Commissioner, named Gerard O'Keefe
of the Retail Clerks International As-
sgciatiQn as having financed the activi-
ties of the "security force" (organized
gangs) of Burnham's PNC-including
assassinations and destruction of pub-
lic buildings "with explosives and
arson."
The British Guiana operation indi-
cates clearly that the AFL-CIO is not
squeamish in devising means for the
pursuit of Cold War political objec-
tives disguised in the cloak of "free
and democratic unionism." In addi-
tion, it suggests that George Meany
has not been straightforward about
labor's dealings with the CIA. The
convincing evidence that the AFL-
CIO served as a front for the CIA
in British Guiana, as described in
The Pro ressive A r' 1967), makes
more cre ible the revelations that
many American union international
programs have been operating in
Latin America largely on CIA funds,
channeled through "dummy" founda-
tions. Senator J. W. Fulbright told
labor' columnist Victor Riesel in Au-
gust, 1966, "I have had suggestions.
that they [the CIA] had taken a very
strong part in labor union organiza-
tion in the Dominican Republic."
If Communism did not exist, some-
one in the AFL-CIO would have had
to invent it. For the AFL-CIO's fre-
quently stated justification of its dubi-
ous political activities has been that
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they help to provt a emocra
alternative to Communist influence in
Latin American unions. Yet its pri-
mary rivals in Latin America today-
and the main targets of its criticism-
have not been the Communists but
other non-Conmiunist unions. This
has been disguised by the AFL-CIO's
use of the Communist issue to smear
its non-Communist, democratic-leftist
rivals with the red brush.
Chief target of its red-baiting
attacks has been the Social Christian
Confederation, CLASC. Joe Beirnc,
head of the Communications Workers
of America, for example, stated in a
1963 news conference: "[CLASC has]
been infiltrated and I think captured
by the Communists...." But CLASC's
record speaks for itself. To CLASC,
Communism and capitalism alike are
forms of materialism, repugnant to
the basic precepts of Social Christian
doctrine. Both treat unions in the de-
veloping nations as pawns in the Cold
War, "tools to be employed for gain-
ing political power," says CLASC, and
both are alien and irrelevant ideolo-
gies for Latin Americans. Emilio
Maspero, CLASC Secretary-General,
stated at a 1963 conference at the
University of Notre Dame that, "The
Communist influence has been more
inimical still [than the American] to
autonomous Latin American labor
organizations...."
Closer to the heart of the AFL-
CIO's grudge against CLASC is Inter-
American director Andrew McLellan's
complaint that "[The Social Chris-
tians] are not interested in bread and
butter issues such as we are." It is not
pro-Communism or advocacy of vio-
lence, but the unequivocal commit-
ment to peaceful but thoroughgoing
social revolution, and the firm refusal
to confine itself to "bread and butter"
issues, for which AFL-CIO officials
cannot forgive CLASC. CLASC's exis-
tence and growing appeal for workers
in many countries present a challenge
and. a threat to the AFL-CIO, mere-
ly by dramatizing the need for a more
satisfactory alternative to Communism
than American labor has been able to
offer.
. Why has the AFL-CIO-potentially
a progressive force-failed to provide
structural reforms in Latin America?
Why has it wielded its influence in
defense of the status quo, often on
behalf of those who stifle workers'
rights? The answers involve both per-
sonalities and the position of organ-
ized labor in American society today.
The AFL-CIO international pro-
gram bears the stamp of those few
individuals who have been its chief
architects. Imbued with the Cold War
mentality of an era when the overseas
representatives of American unions
fought their Communist counterparts
in Europe, several of these individuals
have remained active in the network
of anti-Communist organizations, vcn-
turing even into the camp of the Far
Right. Jay Lovestone, foreign ;policy
adviser to George Meany and. onc'.%of
America's most ardent converts from
Communism., has had ties with the
American Security Council, the Coun-
cil against Communist Aggression, and
the Citizens' Committee for a Free
Cuba (to mention only a few). Meany
has I n in various "China lobby" or-
ganizations and on the advisory coun-
cil of the Foundation for Religious
Action in the Social and Civil Order
(FRASCO), which claims to wage a
"spiritual offensive against Commu-
nism." Serafino Romualdi, formerly
head of AFL-CIO Inter-American
Affairs and director of AIFLD, was
scheduled as a speaker for the Wash-
ington "school" of Fred Schwarz's
Christian Anti-Communist Crusade in
1964. He addressed the 1962 "All-
American Conference to Combat Com-
munism" (as Lovestone had done in
1961) and he has been on the Cuban
Freedom Committee, the Committee of
One Million, and similar groups.
But of greater import has been
American labor's acquired position
vis-a-vis the American business com-
munity. As one labor expert has com-
mented, "Today Big Labor and Big
Management (in the U.S.] often deal
with each other as affluent fellow cor-
porate groups." Indeed, the AFL-CIO's
Latin American program has enjoyed
consistent and strong support from
certain sectors of the American busi-
ness community. It is doubtful that
management's enthusiasm is motivated
purely by altruism. One union official
suggested candidly to me that big
mold one segment of Latin American
labor in such a way as to minimize
the threat from labor to private Amer-
ican investment. -Certainly, American
business has a sympathetic partner in
the AFL-CIO. As the labor committee
report to the 1965 White House Con-
ference on International Cooperation
stated, "[AIFLD] seeks to provide an
atmosphere conducive to free enter-
prise [in
America]."
Equally striking but less well known
has been the integration of the AFL-
CIO international department into
the U.S. foreign policy establishment.
Exactly because American labor's ob-
jectives have become generally indis-
tinguishable from those of the State
Department, the alleged rationale for
the AFL-CIO's international program
-to create "union-to-union" bonds be-
tween popularly-based institutions in
the "free world" and in developing
nations-has been undermined.
To the small clique which runs
AFL-CIO international affairs, the
close relationship with Federal policy-
makers has brought certain concrete
returns: access to U.S. foreign aid
funds; heightened individual prestige
in official circles; a measure of influ-
ence over policy; and patronage (for
example, candidates for labor attaches
in U.S. embassies are frequently recom-
mended, and must always be ap-
proved, by Meany and Lovestone). In
return, particularly because it passes
as a private organization, the AFL-
CIO has proved a valuable partner for
official policy-makers. Whereas the lat-
ter are formally accountable to Con-
gress and the interested public, the
AFL-CIO is largely immune from pub-
lic oversight-even though AID has
poured $15.5 million of taxpayers'
money into AIFLD. Labor's "private"
nature also enhances labor's usefulness
to the "invisible government." Thus,
perhaps unwittingly, American labor
has fallen into some of the very
habits which it recognizes and de-
nounces in Communist-dominated
unions.
Unlikely as it is that AFL-CIO for-
eign policy would be totally divorced
from that of the U.S. Government,
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one might expect the representatives
of labor to exert a liberalizing influ-
ence. In fact they have done just the
opposite. When given a choice be-
tween a liberal direction or an inter- The Pentagon's
ventionist, "negative anti-Communist"
one, the AFL-CIO has reinforced the
latter. Just as its rigid anti-Commu-
nism has undermined State Depart-
Pdierchanfs of Death
ment initiatives for building bridges
to the Eastern European bloc, the
AFL-CIO's negative attitude has in-
hibited overtures to Latin American by GEORGE SHERMAN
Christian Democrats And at a time
when the State Department was, to all
appearances, supporting the demo-
cratic leftist Bosch regime in the
Dominican Republic, the 'Dominican
ORIT affiliate, with strong AFL-CIO
backing, was actively plotting its
overthrow.
Asked by newsmen recently whether
the AFL-CIO has made any mistakes
abroad, Meany modestly replied, "We
haven't found a single thing we would
not say again." Clearly there will be
no Sil1?ifinl ~11anes in-lIQ
Polley under the present leadership,
Would it suffice, then, to remove the
hard-liners like Meany and Lovestone?
I think not. The habits which the
AFL-CIO has acquired in dealing
with labor in developing nations are
not quickly unlearned. Moreover, the
Meanys and Lovestones could not
have been so successful at their own
game, but for the willing cooperation
of many of American labor's "liberals."
In the United States, AFL-CIO lob-
bying for increased foreign aid allot-
ments to AIFLD establishes its "liber-
al" credentials; in Latin America such
aid represents a form of intervention
disguised in humanitarian rhetoric. To
American liberals the AFL-CIO's con-
servatism is bad judgment on the part
of well-intentioned men; to Latin
Americans it seems part of a plan to
perpetuate their dependence on the
United States.
If this is the best that American
liberalism has to offer, it merely
proves that American liberalism ends
at the borders of the United States.
Like the "liberal" American students
and philanthropists who compromised
themselves with the CIA in the name
of anti-Communism, the represen-
tatives of ? American labor have con-
firrned ,the bankruptcy of American
"liberalism" for Latin Americans.
TIlE LATEST installment of the program, much of it previously hidden.
bloody Arab-Israeli struggle has ex- from Congress, let alone the public,
ploded many myths about the balance came as a shock to many of its mem-
of
power in the Middle East. But'the bers and to large segments of the
myth which has taken the biggest;.'. American public. So much so, that
pounding on Capitol Hill is that the' both houses of Congress have moved
United States, by carefully escalating in this year's foreign aid bill to dis- -
and orchestrating arms shipments mantle Pentagon machinery for easy
abroad against competition from the
Soviet bloc, can maintain a peaceful
billanc of power in unstable regions
of the world.
Last June American-supplied planes
and tanks of Jordan fought. American-
supplied tanks and guns of Israel. The
scenario ran about the same as that be-
tween Pakistan and India in 1965.
Pakistan pitted American jet fighters
and tanks, part of $1.5 billion military
aid supplied Pakistan to contain Com-
munist China, against American equip-
ment sent India for the same purpose
after the Chinese invasion in 1962.
When both wars began the United
States could do nothing but belatedly
slap a temporary arms embargo on all
belligerents and sort out ways to pre-
vent a recurrence.
The result that followed the Mideast
conflict has been a searching examina-
tion in Congress of American arms pol-
icy abroad. At least two subcommittees
of the Senate Foreign Relations Com-
mittee and the House Banking and
Currency Committee have revealed for
the first time the export face of that
military-industrial complex which- Pres-
ident Eisenhower warned against in his
celebrated farewell radio-television ad-
dress to the nation in January 1961.
The massiveness of the arms supply
long-term credit sales of arms abroad.
"The whole tone of this operation,"
said Sepatgr J. William Fulbright,
eliairnttaii of the Porelgn Relatlam
Committee, during the August debate,
"has come to have a disturbing resem-
blance to a cheap easy credit jewelry
store-fifty cents down and a dollar a
week. The credit sales program has
been converted into a kind of military
[program] for the surplus disposal by
the Pentagon and the American arma-
ments industry. It is time to stop it."
The statistics turned up by his Com-
mittee tell the tale. According to the
Department of Defense itself, the an-
nual rate of U.S.. arms purchased by
the developing countries, mainly those
in the Middle East and Pakistan and
India, increased thirteen times over the
five years from mid-1961 to June 20,
1966-from $34 million in fiscal year
1962 to $444 million in the 1966 fiscal
year. That makes a cumulative total of
$1.11 billion in arm sales to poorer
countries, based again on the Pentagon
estimate that they bought ten per cent
of the overall $11.1 billion in world-
wide American arms sales during these
five years. The remaining ninety per
cent went to industrialized allies-
NATO partners and Japan, Australia
and New Zealand.
James Reston, associate editor and
Washington columnist of The New
GEORGE SHERMAN is a staff-writer for York Times, recently surveyed a longer
The Washington Star. period of U.S. arms sales and gifts and
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one might expect the representatives
of labor to exert a liberalizing influ-
ence. In fact they have done just. the
opposite. When given a choice be-
tween a liberal direction or an inter-
ventionist, "negative anti-Communist"
one, the AFL-CIO has reinforced the
latter. Just as its rigid anti-Commu-
nisin has undermined State Depart-
ment initiatives for building bridges
to the Eastern European bloc, the
AFL-CIO's negative attitude has in-
hibited overtures to Latin American
Christian Democrats. And at a time
when the State Department was, to all
appearances, supporting the demo-
cratic leftist Bosch regime in the
Dominican Republic, the 'Dominican
ORIT affiliate, with strong AFL-CIO
backing, was
overthrow.
actively plotting its
Asked by newsmen recently whether
the AFL-CIO has made any mistakes
abroad, Meany modestly replied, "We
haven't found a single thing we would
not say again." Clearly there will be
wo Mgnifieant efiapgcs in AFI -CIQ
policy under the present leadership.
Would it suffice, then, to remove the
hard-liners like Meany and Lovestone?
I think not. The habits which the
AFL-CIO has acquired in dealing
with labor in developing nations are
not quickly unlearned. Moreover, the
Meanys and Lovestones could not
have been so successful at their own
game, but for the willing cooperation
of many of American labor's "liberals."
In the United States, AFL-CIO lob-
bying for increased foreign aid allot-
ments to AIFLD establishes its "liber-
al" credentials; in Latin America such
aid represents a form of intervention
disguised in humanitarian rhetoric. To
American liberals the AFL-CIO's con-
. servatism is bad judgment on the part
of well-intentioned men; to Latin
Americans it seems part of a plan to
perpetuate their dependence on the
United States.
If this is the best that American
liberalism has to offer, it merely
proves that American liberalism ends
at the borders of the United States.
Like the "liberal" American students
and philanthropists who compromised
themselves with the CIA in the name
of anti-Communism, the represen-
tatives of American labor have con-
firmed the bankruptcy of American
"liberalism" for Latin Americans.
The Pentagon's
Merchants of Death
by GEORGE SHERMAN
THE LATEST installment of the
bloody Arab-Israeli struggle has ex-
ploded many myths about the balance
of power in the Middle East. But the myth which has taken the biggest;..'
pounding on Capitol Hill is that the:'
United States, by carefully escalating
and orchestrating arms shipments
abroad against competition from the
Soviet bloc, can maintain a peaceful
balanctr Qf power
of the World.
in unstable regions
Last June American-supplied planes
and tanks of Jordan fought American-
supplied tanks and guns of Israel. The
scenario ran about the same as that be-
tween Pakistan and India in 1965.
Pakistan pitted American jet fighters
and tanks, part of $1.5 billion military
aid supplied Pakistan to contain Com-
munist China, against American equip-
ment sent India for the same purpose
after the Chinese invasion in 1962.
When both wars began the United
States could do nothing but belatedly
slap a temporary arms embargo on all
belligerents and sort out ways to pre-
vent a recurrence.
The result that followed the Mideast
conflict has been a searching examina-
tion in Congress of American arms pol-
icy abroad. At least two subcommittees
of the Senate Foreign Relations Com-
mittee and the House Banking and
Currency Committee have revealed for
the first time the export face of that
military-industrial complex which- Pres-
ident Eisenhower warned against in his
celebrated farewell radio-television ad-
dress to the nation in January 1961.
The massiveness of the arms supply
GEORGE SHERMAN is a staff-writer for
The Washington Star.
program, much of it previously hidden,
from Congress, , let alone the public,
came as a shock to. many of its mem-
bers and to large segments of the
American public. So much so, that
both houses of Congress have moved
in this year's foreign aid bill to dis-
mantle Pentagon machinery for easy
long-term credit sales of arms abroad.
"The whole tone of this operation,"
said Senator J. William Fulbright,
Eltairniaii of the Ibriign Relat[on3
Committee, during the August debate,
"has come to have a disturbing resem-
blance to a cheap easy credit jewelry
store-fifty cents down and a dollar a
week. The credit sales program has
been converted into a kind of military
[program] for the surplus disposal by
the Pentagon and the American arma-
ments industry. It is time to stop it."
The statistics turned up by his Com-
mittee tell the tale. According to the
Department of Defense itself, the an-
nual rate of U.S. arms purchased by
the developing countries, mainly those
in the Middle East and Pakistan and
India, increased thirteen times over the
.five years from mid-1961 to June 20,
1966-from $34 million in fiscal year
1962 to $444 million in the 1966 fiscal
year. That makes a cumulative total of
$1.11 billion in arm sales to poorer
countries, based again on the Pentagon
estimate that they bought ten per cent
of the overall $11.1 billion in world-
wide American arms sales during these
five years. The remaining ninety per
cent went to industrialized allies-
NATO partners and Japan, Australia
and New Zealand.
James Reston, associate editor and
Washington columnist of The New
York Times, recently surveyed a longer
period of U.S. arms sales and gifts and
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alternative to Communist influence in structural reforms in. Latin America? mold one segment of Latin American
fl }n 1 b in such a way as to minimize
nce or
Latin American unions. Yet its pri-
mary rivals in Latin America today-
and the main targets of its criticism-
have not been the Communists but
other non-Communist unions. This
has been disguised by the AFL-CIO's
use of the Communist issue to smear
its non-Communist, democratic-leftist
rivals with the red brush.
Chief target of its red-baiting
attacks has been the Social Christian
Confederation, CLASC. Joe Beirne,
head of the Communications Workers
of America, for example, stated in a
1963 news conference: "[CLASC has]
been infiltrated and I think captured
by the Communists. . . ." But CLASC's
record speaks for itself. To CLASC,
Communism and capitalism alike are
forms of materialism, repugnant to
the basic precepts of Social Christian
doctrine. Both treat unions in the de-
veloping nations as pawns in the Cold
War, "tools to be employed for gain-
ing political power," says CLASC, and
both are alien and irrelevant ideolo-
gies for Latin Americans. Emilio
Maspero, CLASC Secretary-General,
stated at a 1963 conference at the
University of Notre Dame that, "The
Communist influence has been more
inimical still [than the American] to
autonomous Latin American labor
organizations.
Why has it wielded tts to uc
defense of the status quo, often on the threat from labor to private Amer-
behalf of those who stifle workers' ican investment. -Certainly, American
rights? The answers involve both per- business has a sympathetic partner in
sonalitics and the position of organ- the AFL-CIO. As the labor committee
ized labor in American society today. report to the 1965 White House Con-
The AFL-CIO international pro- ference on International Cooperation
gram bears the stamp of those few stated, "[AIFLD] seeks to provide an
individuals who have been its chief atmosphere conducive to free enter-
architects. Imbued with the Cold War prise [in Latin America]."
mentality of an era when the overseas
representatives of American unions
fought their Communist counterparts
in Europe, several of these individuals
have remained active in the network
of anti-Communist organizations, vcn-
turing even into the camp of the Far
Right. Jay Lovestone, foreign 'policy
adviser to George Meany and . one of
America's most ardent converts {torn
Communism., has had tics with the
American Security Council, the Coun-
cil against Communist Aggression, and
the Citizens' Committee for a Free
Cuba (to mention only a few), Meany
has 1 n in various "China lobby" or-
ganizations and on the advisory coun-
cil of the Foundation for Religious
Action in the Social and Civil Order
(FRASCO), which claims to wage a
"spiritual offensive against Commu-
nism." Serafino Romualdi, formerly
head of AFL-CIO Inter-American
Affairs and director of AIFLD, was
scheduled as a speaker for the Wash-
ington "school" of Fred Schwarz's
Closer to the heart of the AFL-
CIO's grudge against CLASC is Inter-
American director Andrew McLellan's
complaint that "[The Social Chris-
tians] are not interested in bread and
butter issues such as we are." It is not
pro-Communism or advocacy of vio-
lence, but the unequivocal commit-
ment to peaceful but thoroughgoing
social revolution, and the firm refusal
to confine itself to "bread and butter"
issues, for which AFL-CIO officials
cannot forgive CLASC. CLASC's exis-
tence and growing appeal for workers
in many countries present a challenge
and a threat to the AFL-CIO, mere-
ly by dramatizing the need for a more
satisfactory alternative to Communism
than American labor has been able to
offer.
Why has the AFL-CIO-potentially
a progressive force-failed to provide
November, 16967
Christian Anti-Communist Crusade in
1964. He addressed the 1962 "All-
American Conference to Combat Com-
munism" (as Lovestone had done in
1961) and he has been on the Cuban
Freedom Committee, the Committee of
One Million, and similar groups.
But of greater import has been
American labor's acquired position
vis-a-vis the American business com-
munity. As one labor expert has com-
mented, "Today Big Labor and Big
Management [in the U.S.] often deal
with each other as affluent fellow cor-
porate groups." Indeed, the AFL-CIO's
Latin American program has enjoyed
consistent and strong support from
certain sectors of the American busi-
Equally striking but less well known
has been the integration of the AFL-
CIO international department into
the U.S. foreign policy establishment.
Exactly because American labor's ob-
jectives have become generally indis-
tinguishable from those of the State
Department, the alleged rationale for
the AFL-CIO's international program
-to create "union-to-union" bonds be-
tween popularly-based institutions in
the "free world" and in developing
nations-has been undermined.
To the small clique which runs
AFL-CIO international affairs, the
close relationship with Federal policy-
makers has brought certain concrete
returns: access to U.S. foreign aid
funds; heightened individual prestige
in official circles; a measure of influ-
ence over policy; and patronage (for
example, candidates for labor attaches
in U.S. embassies are frequently recom-
mended, and must always be ap-
proved, by Meany and Lovestone). In
return, particularly because it passes
as a private organization, the AFL-
CIO has proved a valuable partner for
official policy-makers. Whereas the lat-
ter are formally accountable to Con-
gress and the interested public, the
AFL-CIO is largely immune from pub-
lic oversight-even though AID has
poured $15.5 million of taxpayers'
money into AIFLD. Labor's "private"
nature also enhances labor's usefulness
to the "invisible government." Thus,
perhaps unwittingly, American labor
has fallen into some of the very
habits which it recognizes and de-
nounces in Communist-dominated
ness community. It is doubtful that unions.
management's enthusiasm is motivated Unlikely as it is
purely by altruism. One union official eign policy would
suggested candidly to me that big from that of the
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unions under undemocratic regimes,
sech ung to bypass these governments.
But in practice, AIFLD must deal
with governmental agencies, thereby
indirectly lending moral and material
support to these regimes. In Honduras,
for example, after the right-wing mili-
tary coup of October, 1963-even be-
fore the U.S. Government had re-es-
tablished diplomatic relations-AIFLD
was pressing for resumption of work
on its housing project for a railroad
workers' union.
In countries other than pre-Castro
Cuba the AFL-CIO has urged non-
action in the face of military take-
overs. Following such coups in Guate-
mala in 1954, in the Dominican Re-
public and Honduras in 1963, and in
Brazil in 1964, ORIT-affiliated unions,
acting on AFL-CIO advice, refused to
join, other unions in general strikes or
even verbal protests, on the grounds
that repressive action would be tak-
en against unions expressing opposi-
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tion. In addition, AFL-CIO officials
explain, "Unions should not become
involved in partisan causes or use
strikes as political weapons."
.Such official AFL-CIO ideology not-
withstanding, the rhetoric of "apoliti-
cal unionism" is discarded and-overtly
partisan, actions taken when expedien-
cy requires. Soon after the 1964 coup
in Brazil, AIFLD Director Doherty
told radio. interviewers, "I am certain-
ly not against Brazilian labor getting
involved in politics." Apparently not,
for at the time of the coup AIFLD
graduates were active in mobilizing
labor support for. it and in ensuring
its success. As Doherty boasted, "Some
of [the unionists trained at AIFLD]
became involved in some of the
clandestine operations of the rev-
olution before it took place on
April 1. . . ." Doherty's claim has.
ht cn proudly confirmed by usher
AFL-CIO officials I interviewed and
other popularizers of the so-called
"revolution" by which the military
overthrew President Goulart's govern-
ment.
An October, 1966, Reader's Digest
article related that one AIFLD=trained
communications union leader ran sen'
inars in Brazil 'in which "he warned
key workers of coming trouble and
urged them to keep communications
going, no matter what happened;" as
a result, when the call went out in
April, 1964, for a general strike to
protest the coup, "the wires kept hum-
ming and the army was able to coor-
dinate troop movements that ended
the showdown bloodlessly. . . ." Just
as they had lauded the CIA-instigated
takeover in Guatemala ten years pre-
viously, AFL-CIO officials endorsed
the Brazilian coup. For two and one
half years American labor continued
to support the military regime, al-
though its anti-inflation measures and
strict regulation of wages, its severe
strike laws, and its purge of union
leadership greatly weakened Brazilian
labor.
In the Dominican Republic, those
same "non-partisan" ORIT-dominated
labor officials who refused to fight
during the 1965 revolution, had no
qualms earlier about participating in
the political activities which helped
bring down the Bosch regime in 1963.
In his memoirs, former President
Bosch singled out leaders of the Do-
minican ORIT affiliate as openly fa-
voring the coup against him.
In British Guiana the AFL-CIO
participated directly in a three-year
campaign to oust the constitutionally
elected government of Cheddi Jagan,
through assistance to the British Gui-
ana Trades Union Council (TUC)-
the anti-Jagan OBIT affiliate which
worked closely with Forbes Burnham's
People's National Congress (PNC), the
principal opposition party to Jagan.
AFL-CIO leaders and their Guian-
ese proteges were deeply implicated in-`
the terrorism and racial violence 1
which accompanied the strike. A
secret report of September, 1963,
from the British police superinten.
dent in British Guiana to the British
Commissioner, named Gerard O'Keefe
of the Retail Clerks International As-
weiation ii having finarteecI the Activi-
ties of the "security force" (organized
gangs) of Burnham's PNC-including
assassinations and destruction of pub-
lic buildings "with explosives and
arson."
The British Guiana operation indi-
cates clearly that the AFL-CIO is not
squeamish in devising means for the
pursuit of Cold War political objec-
tives disguised in the cloak of "free
and democratic unionism." In addi-
tion, it suggests that George Meany
has not been straightforward about
labor's dealings with the CIA. The
convincing evidence that the AFL-
CIO served as a front for the CIA
in British Guiana, as described in
The Proeressive (Apri~_l,__1961), makes
more cre ible the revelations that
many American union international
programs have been operating in
Latin America largely on CIA funds,
channeled through "dummy" founda-
tions. Senator J. W. Fulbright told
labor' columnist Victor Riesel in Au-
gust, 1966, "I have had suggestions.
that they [the CIA] had taken a very
strong part in labor union organiza-
tion in the Dominican Republic."
If Communism did not exist, some-
one in the AFL-CIO would have had
to invent it. For the AFL-CIO's fre-
quently stated justification of its dubi-
ous political activities has been that
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wnm.c necessary, are insufficient as ob-
ectives for Latin American workers,
and cannot be attained solely through
collective bargaining without structural
reforms in the distribution of re-
sources and income and the establish-
ment of democratic process in their
national governments.
Latin American workers are still
fighting battles which American labor
won many years ago. A mere ten to
fifteen per cent of the active labor
force is organized. Lacking funds and
political influence, even those repre-
sented by unions are not regarded as an,
autonomous pressure group whose in-
terests and needs demand serious con-
sideration. Moreover, the rights of
labor, particularly in state-run enter-
prises and public services, are general-
ly limited by government labor codes
regulating wage increases, strikes, and
collective, bargaining. In many coun-
tries employers are required to bargain
only with unions officially recognized
by the government,
Particularly inappropriate as an
example for Latin Americans is the
AFL-CIO's outlook toward free enter-
prise and the big business community.
As witness Doherty's words to the
Council for Latin America, "We be-
lieve in the capitalist system and .. .
are dedicated to its preservation."
Latin American unionists also oppose
nationalization of industry, he contin-
ued, and, "like ourselves, they would
want government to step in and inter-
fere in the affairs of business and
labor only in case of national emer-
gency. . . ." AIFLD is symbolic of
American labor's comfortable relation-
ship with business; as Doherty said in
radio interviews in December, 1963,
"We welcome [the] cooperation [of
management] not only financially but
in terms of establishing our poli-
cies. . . . The cooperation between
ourselves and the business community
is getting warmer day by day."
But for Latin American workers,
who confront vested and generally
unprogressive industrial and land-own-
ing interests, such benevolence toward
big business would be suicidal if wide-
ly accepted. Imagine a Chilean copper
miner "open-minded" enough to em-
brace an organization whose board
included-as AIFLD's does-Charles
November, 1967
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erstoo
t
at such ameliorations, Copper.
Those who do adopt the AFL-CIO
philosophy have displayed a marked
lack of militancy toward business.
ORIT affiliates in several countries
have fostered company unions. In
many countries the AFL-CIO has en-
couraged its proteges to pull out of
coalitions with more militant elements,
even at the risk of forming parallel
unions. ORIT affiliates have engaged
in practices which violate even the
principles of American-style unionism
and which are regarded by more
active Latin-American unionists as
ant i-obrero-anti-worker.
Thus the AFL-CIO has offered an
educational program and a philosophy
divorced from the agenda for basic
social change in Latin America, in the
hope of persuading Latin American
workers to settle for "bread and but-
ter unionism"-a poor substitute, at
best.
Where ideas fail to convince, ma-
terial assistance often becomes pcrsua-
siv?. American labor's access to U.S.
foreign aid funds is tempting bait to
impoverished Latin American unions.
Since the inception of the Alliance
for Progress, the AFL-CIO has had a
virtual monopoly over its union pro-
grams. Early expectations that Alli-
ance labor funds would be available
to the liberal Social Christian Trade
Union Confederation of Latin Ameri-
Justus In The Minneapolis Star
The All-Inclusive Boot
ary ORIT were dashed, for the labor
advisory committee to the Alliance
included only AFL-CIO representa-
tives, and since 1962 the AIFLD Social
Projects Department has been the for.
mal agency for channeling Alliance
funds to 'Latin American labor.
Ironically, AFL-CIO control over
Alliance funds has caused fewer prob-
lems for those excluded than for the
intended beneficiaries. In one country
after another, union leaders have
eagerly accepted AIFLD offers of
loans for housing projects, only to
find that the strings attached re-
stricted their freedom and in some
cases violated national laws.
In Uruguay a $5 million AIFLD-
sponsored housing project for the
ORIT-affiliated Uruguayan Labor
Federation fell through when the Uru-
guay representatives refused to sign
AIFLD's "letter of intention," naming
AIFLD "as their sole agent before
any . . . organization . . . for the pro-
curing and realization of the loan,"
and granting AIFLD the "permanent
right" to veto applicants for the proj-
ect "for trade union and political rea-
sons"-terms which violated Uruguay-
an law. During the planning stages of
a $3 million housing project for sugar
workers in the Dominican Repub-
lic, the Inter-American Development
Bank, which was to have provided
two-thirds of the money, withdrew its
loan in objection to AIFLD's insis-
tence that both the construction and
the occupancy of the project be
restricted to unions affiliated with
ORIT. In addition, AIFLD violated
Dominican law by awarding contracts
in a private rather than an open bid-
ding and favored American firms.
The U.S. Agency for International
Development later bailed out AIFLD
by financiqg the construction of 110
of the projected 700 to 900 units.
If , their exclusion of non-
ORIT unions appears narrow-minded,
AIFLD officials are more flexible
about cooperating with dictatorial and
military regimes. This is disguised
through the convenient myth of
"union-to-union" programs, by which
AIFLD can continue direct aid to
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Conservative Role
in Lakin America
by SUSANNE BODENHEIMER
. "Not one penny of CIA money has
ever come in to the AFL or the AFL-
CIO to my knowledge over the last
twenty years, and I say to you if it
['-had come in, I would know about
it. . . . I take a great deal of pride
in the work we've done overseas and
I resent the fact that the CIA is try-
ing to horn in on it and say that
they have done some of it."
-GEORGE MEANY, President of AFL-
CIO, denying charges of Central Intel-
ligence Agency subsidies to AFL-CIO,
May 8, 1967
4'Lr- L_ t~0 At the end of an unpaved road in
the pleasant, rolling Virginia country-
side, more than seventy-five miles
from Washington, D.C., is the AIFLD
Institute for Free Labor De-.
velooment (AIFLD), which brings to-
gether the resources of American
labor, American business, and the U.S.
Government.
Like official U.S. policy-makers, the
AFL-CIO is ambivalent toward social
change in Latin America and vacil-
lates between a desire to win over
Latin Americans with promises of
gradual social reform and a tendency
to rely on "safe"-military and oligar-
chic-forces which stifle even peaceful
social progress. With one hand Ameri-
can labor holds out offers of educa-
~MAGINE, for the moment, that tion and financial aid, and simultane-
George Meany is incapable of tell- ously, with the other hand, wields the
ing a lie. Suppose that the AFL-CIO's "big stick" of intervention.
expensive campaign to promote "dem- A widely-advertised attraction of
ocratic unionism" abroad-particularly the AFL-CIO operation south of the
in Latin America-is not being Rio Grande is the AIFLD educational
charged to the ever-expanding account program, which has reached more
of the "invisible government," are its 'fl'an ou,000 Latin American unionists
motivations and methods so different since 1962. Scholarships to the AIFLD
from those of the CIA, and has Meany
any reason to take pride in that
campaign?
The apparatus of the AFL-CIO's
Latin American program, since World
War II has been geared to a continu-
ation of the Cold War. Through its
principal instrument, the Tnte~ "4 -
can Regional Organization of Workers
. OR T founded in 19,51 to compete
with leftist and Peronist labor organ-
izers, the AFL-CIO has constructed a
network of "free and democratic"
unions throughout Latin America.
This is supplemented by the Ina-
tional Trade Secretariats (ITS), which
coordinate activities among unions in
the same trade or industry throughout
the world. The third agency of the
AFL-CIO in Latin America is the
Institute in the United States are
awarded to the "star" pupils in local
and regional AIFLD seminars,
recruited and screened by AFL-CIO
and ORIT representatives. After com-
pleting the three-month "advanced
course" and returning to their own
countries, the most promising students
remain on the AIFLD payroll as
"interns" for nine months.
SUSANNE BODENHEIMER specialized In
Latin American political development at
Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. She gathered the mate-
rial for this article while engaged In re-
search at the Institute for Policy Studies
In Washington-research based largely
on interviews with American and Latin
American labor officials. She now lives
In Latin America.
Institute. Originally located in Wash-
ington, it was moved to Virginia, ac-
cording to AIFLD officials, to provide
a "more peaceful" environment for
study. Students are without cars or bus
service to "the monastery," as they have
nick-named it, and are seldom exposed
to the distractions of the big city. None
of the students I met there spoke
English and few seemed engrossed in
their studies.
All AIFLD students major in anti-
Communism, a subject which their
instructors, some of whom are Cuban
exiles, are well qualified to teach.
According to the AIFLD Report, stu-
dents from several countries spend
more hours in the "democracy and
totalitarianism" course ("democracy"
American-style, "totalitarianism" Com-
munist-style) than on any other sub-
ject. Through "role-playing" exercises,
students gain practice in countering
Communist infiltration. But while
AIFLD graduates have acquired exper-
tise in ousting Communists (or anyone
who looks Communist to AFL-CIO
advisers), they are ill-equipped by
their AIFLD education to meet equal-
ly potent challenges from rightwing
dictatorial governments or entrenched'
land-owning and business interests. Al-
though ninety per cent of the land
in Latin America is controlled by ten
per cent of the landholders, land re-
form receives scant attention in the
AIFLD curriculum.
Central to AIFLD's program is the
premise, as its director, William
Doherty, put it to the Council for
Latin America (an American business-
men's group) on February 11, 1966,
that "The great bulk of the 15,000,000
organized workers in Latin America
think, want, and desire almost identi-
cally with their counterparts in the
United States." On the dubious as-
sumption that American unionism is
exportable, AFL-CIO educators have
focused on "bread and butter" issues
-higher wages, better working condi-
tions, more fringe benefits-to be ob-
tained through the collective bargain-
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By KEN CLAWSON
Blade staff writer
JAY LOVESTONE, etor
of the A?' "'I0's
tinnal affair. nat tm
lens and d ,rtes tc . &l. 41
agencies ir? _,g(!nce ..ioria-
tion gathered by hi.. ~vo ld-
wide network .)f.lab,,r con-
tacts.
The 68-year-old Lovestone,
former serge: ry - general of
the Amerih:; Communist
party who has turned with a
vengeance on his former ideol-
ogy, emphatically d e n i e s,
however, that he acts as
an agent of the Centi>' Intel-
ligence Agency (CIA) or has
ever tcccpt
Two actions this week within! '" Victor Reuther late this last .' George Burdon, former pies
thc"UAW, the largest union in week renewed charges that ident ' of the Un4ted Rubber
the federation, widened its. the AFL-CIO is deeply in-; Workers,' may resign before
rift, with the federation., volved with the Central Intelli-,I the week?is over, according to
'
THE MOVES could prod the
2,S-member council, which Wal-
t t:e>:.quit two weeks 'ago, to take
a" public position on . UAW
charges that Meany -has han-
."dled AF L-CIO operations. in an
undemocratic fashion.'.
Many so far has declined to
a'discruss any issues relating to
r tl UAW.. .
dav n i g ht, representa-
!,ves-of UAW local unions rep-,
'seniir : some 60,000 me-
I ,r;, i , the Chicago area, voted,;
to di affiliate from the Chr.-~
cag,.AFL-CIO central body.
UAW Vice-President Leo-'
Hard: Woodcock, appearing be-
fore -the group, voiced, sharp
criticism of 'Meany similar to
that made by the UAW's exec-
uti.ve boa
,,)ions to succeed R2.uther, it:
early last December to permit Aw,uld be ? a direct slap at the
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He said that AFL-CIO i1i- s The UAW will ask delegates..)
volvernent with the CIA is "a to a special collective bargain.
lot bigger; story" than the dis-., ing convention in April in De.:.
closure of the agency's opera- f troit to give the international
tiggs with student'groups. executive board: the. power to,1
pull the- union out of the fed-,.I
? JAY LOVESTONE, A F I-, eration if it feels' this is neces
CIQ' director of international H sary. ' ? '
affairs, flatly denied the What Meany and the execu
charges.., ,i tive"council do 'this week may
HBwdver, it was disclosed': determine :what p o s i t,i'o n.
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since 1961 from , foundations ,I
that,: were- subsidized''by, they -
-VICTOR REUTHER made `
ianilar charges last summe>r
but the executive council de-`'i -
Hied-them. The issue was one Qf .t several that , jed-to,, . the 't -
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program has been leaking all
over the ' neap 'Of thq, world
during thn past 'five"years.'. It;'
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ago, before' the U.S.:su`fered'.
wor!rl?wida embarrassment. It
might be aai:l? that. this, is
cynical. The terribly ..sad fact
!-,Of the matter is, however, that
?t hese things are. natural,.^albcit I.
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By JACK MALLON and the federal government
Stuff Corre.sponthnt of TIM NEWS Formed in 1962, it trains Latin
Chicago, Aug. 22-AFL-CIO American trade nnionists and;
;president George Meany vigor- promots better-housing and social
,rely den ed today charges that programs.
;'the Central In-; "I'm no agent of the U.S. gov-,
gram in Latin session.
America. Demands Condemnation
Blasting Grit= ' Bierne, also president of the.
ics who have Communications Workers of
filtrated" into enaracter," .ioseph tiierne secre
Ithe labor organ- tary treasurer of th AIFL' D, said'
i ization's pro-after yesterday's e x e c u t i v e .
George Free Labor Do. tions of Victor Reuther. ? yMJ
iseany velopment was Victor's brother, Walter, presi-
;"formonting 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 he said he supported;
a resolution condemning the the basic. goal of the AIFLD, the!
campaign of vilification con- LAW 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,
.feria, Victor Reuther, head of the The resolution supporting the;
artmentAIFLD and condemning its de-'
;UAW'- international de
p
charged that CIA agents had actors was passed by a 23 - 2
been manipulating unions in' voce, with Joseph Curran,,presi
ts dent of the Maritime Union and'
Panama to
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... He said the Walter Reuther voting against it.'
, intelligence agency,Jacob Potofsky, president of the
was working through - unionists;Amalgamated Clothing Workers
strained by the-AIFLD. Union;. abstained.,
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71-IL TOPIC IS A.F.L.-C.I.O. ACTIVITIES A ;IIOAD: George Itieany, left, pre?ident
of t",o me;ged labor organization, and Walter J'. Reuther, a vice president of the organ-
iz i`ioa and head of the United Automobile, Workers, at Chicago meeting yesterday.
l~ abor Chiefs Back Aid to Latin-American Unions
By DAIMON STETSON Victor Reuther Rebuked bylgamated Clothing Workers, ab-
special to The New York Times stained from voting. .
CHICAGO, Aug. 22-Organ- A.F.L.-C.I.O. Leaders for The executive council took
izcd labor's high command up the issue at the behest of
,;strongly supported today a four- Criticizing Institute Joseph Beirne, president of the
Communications Workers of
year-old program for assisting America and also secretary-;
trade unions in Latin America. agent of the Central Intelligence treasurer of the institute. He',
At the same time the labor;Agelicy. -T . gave a detailed report on the
leaders rebuked one of labor's --one of the ciilef critics of the activites of the institute; which
own leaders in international of- institute has been Mr. Reuther, was founded in 1962 to train
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fairs, Victor. Reuther, for criti-idirector of international affairs Latin-American trade unionists.
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for the United Automobile in this country, to set up ria-1
The executive council of the
American Federation of Labor
and Congress of Indistrial Or-
ganizations, holding its quarterly
meeting here, adopted a resolu-
tion commending the American
Institute for Free Labor Devcl-
Workers. His views and activi- tional training centers in vari-I
ties have often brought him into ous nations and' to assist in
conflict with the more conserva- the establishment of low-cost
tive policies of the international housing projects.
affairs department of the In other resolutions the exec-
A.F.L.-C.I.O., directed by Jay utive council pledged support
Lovestone. to the unions currently attempt-,
The council's rebuke of critics mg to negotiate new contracts
of the institute did not directly with the Western Electric Com
jhn?olve differences between Mr. piny, the General Electric,
of work in the merged carrying Reuther and Mr. Lovestone, but Company and the Westinghouse,
out opment the policies its work
it did serve once again to ac- Corporation.
labor movement in the intertia-.centuate the schism, particular- Mr. Meant' indicated that the
tional field, The council rejectedsly regarding international af- settlement terms of the recent
"out of hand the campaign of fairs, that has been developing airlines strike would spur other
; and Walter unions to seek agreements high.
botwcen Mr. Meany
vilification that has been con- or than the 3.2 per cent guide.
ducted against the A.I.F.L.D." th Reuther,
a vice, president of lines of the President's Council
merged l
The institute conducts theialso ptesid nt of the auto lvork- of Economio Advisers. He was
Latin-American program. ;ers and Victor Reuther's broth- critical of attempts to make
Linked to C.I.A. cr specific applications of the The vote on the resolution guidelines.
George Mcany, president of!supporting the institute and re- "The unions are asking what
the labor federation, in repo rU-;bit king its critics was 23 to 2, they're entitled to, Mr. Meant'
ing, on the council's action, said!with 3 members, absent. The said. If its over 3.2 per cent,
was serving an,,ult}i. of th I I itin U 1 J C
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charged that it was fomcnting,Walter Reuther and.. Joseph,
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`z i n li (made public, Bierne told The Piz d' '
'~ !Washington Post that he T.,
;sought to refute what, he ' F L b
about the Institute, among
I' them charges that the AIFLD: -
vv orxs as an arm oz tine
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By frank Porter U.S. State
Is dominated by or coop-
Washington Post Staff Writcr crated with the CIA. .
CHICAGO, Aug. 22-Walter P. Reuther, the No. 2 ? Fosters company unions ~
man in the U.S. labor movement, received another sting- in Latin America.
in,, rebut:; on foreign policy here today from the leader- ? Intervenes in the internal',
b affairs of foreign countries.
Ship of -Lis AFL-CIO.
demned his brother by in-. ? Supports anti -democratic
The Federation's executive' direction. They also speculat..leaders in Latin America.
!ouncil voted, 21 to 2, to "re- cd that a yes vote from Wal Bierne said he was not un-
ject out of hand the campaign ter rnigiit have implied thaf duly disturbed when "this fa-.
of villification that has been he is in accord with overall brie" of allegations was woven'
conducted against the AIFLD AFL - CIO foreign policies by individual newspaper and;
(the American Institute For; when indeed he is not. Pres-'magazine writers.
Free Labor Development)." ident George Meany has;public Changes
The prime target of the scheduled a special executive, It still didn't have ere
resolution wasn't Reuther, council meeting for after the Bence until someone from the
who heads both the 1.3 million, November election' at which movement (Victor Reuther)
member United Auto Workers Reuther and his supporters.gave it credence," he said.
(UAW) and the Industrial Una will have a' chance to debate'Shortly after Victor first
ion Department of the AFL- these policies. , made his charges public in a
CIO, but statements made by'
Comment -newspaper interview last May,
his brother Victor. Walter Reuther would not$icrne asked Meany for she
Victor '~cuther is director comment on today's action. opportunity 'to defend the
of the UiO . S department of The Reuthers' earlier defeat `~Ii LD, which is an outgrowth
International Affairs-and has1 on foreign policy came in of pilot projects in- Latin
publicly assailed the AIFLD, June when the council upheld in America by his own union.
among other things, he has 18 to 6, the walkout of Amer.i.Today's report was the frui
charged the AFL-CIO-soon- tiara of that request;,
cored Institute with working can labor, delegates to the In-
tornational Labor Organiza?..l3>erne said ]its' action was
Victor
with the U.S. Central Intel- tion meetings in Geneva after":nitRcuthc r an as a attack person on,
but on
Bence Agency and ical r election of a Polish Commu-
j
in; in the Internal political af-; gist as president. Walter the statements he made."
lairs of Latin American na ; Reuther, aided by his brother The CWA chief, who called
Lions. the AIFLD "the one bright
had protested the action bit=
Wrong in Attacks terly as inimitable to a free star in the whole alliance for
Although the quarterly exe?' labor movement and askedprogress, said lie told the
cutive council meetings that Meany for a special hearing. council the Institute has
opened here today are closed,i ' The episode was regarded trained 43,000 Latin Ameri-
members said Walter Reuther; as ?a tempest in a teapot by cans as labor leaders, spent or
conceded his brother had, some rank-and-file unionists committed $63. million on
been wrong in his attacks on who contend AFL?CIO'foreignworker housing and spent an-
the AIFLD. policy holds little interest forother $100,000 on such "im-
The UAW president non the membership as a whale. pact" items as sewing ma?
theless voted against the mo-' But higher-ups view both; chines for cooperatives, sanita?
tion along with Joseph Cur-' the ILO and AIFLD incidentsry facilities, schoolhouse im-
ran, president of the. National as greatly weakenine Walter provements and the like.
Maritime Union. President Ja-:Reuther's chances of succeed=' The council also passed a
cob S. Potosky of the Amalga-;ing Meany as federation pres~'resolution supporting the com?
mated- Clothing Workers of,ident. E v e n some of his'munications workers in their
America abstained and three friends while supporting hinr efforts to shatter the "shield"
? other council members wereiin the ILO fight in theory,' of the Administration's 3.2 per
cent wage guidepost which
absent. were dismayed by what they- rte h
Walter Reuther reportedly considered Reuther's decisive the union says says Western, CWA
favored the first part of the,tactics in bringing the matter'demands for "decent wage
resolution, which commended into the open before the coun- levels,"
the AIFLD for its "work in cil could consider it. It asked the Senate to act
carrying out the policies of Report Outcome- promptly on an improved min-
the AFL-CIO in the interna-
tional bill, field." Today's resolution was the 'the House expedite the so-
But colleagues said they be- outcome of a long report de- called truth in packaging bill
dieved he could not lend sup-. fending the AIFLD by Joseph which it said has become
port to _ a,. motion, wluch con :A, .Sterne. its secretary-treasu bogged - down in committee,
and gavel "support without
reservation" to seven unions
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CHICAGO, Aug. 21-Poli- They resent, what tncy.con-
tics will dominate the summer. sider rough handling of the
meeting of the AFL-CIO Ex. International Association of
ecutive Council, which opens Machinists by Labor Secretary
here Monday. W. Willard Wirtz during the
With the leaders of the Na -airline strike. They say Mr.
tioi,'s unions more divided Johnson has not pushed legis-
minimum
than ever, by political argu??, lation sage. for Furthaer, they higher accuse the
mens, the meeting promises President of not working hard
to be a difficult one.: enough for the repeal of the
George Meany, President of right to work section (14b) oe
the, 13-million-member, labor the Taft-Hartley Act, and they
,federation, would like .to per-; resent r:;e so-called wage-price
?suade the Council to continue' guidelines. Some even feel the
to go along with ' Presideaiti"Administra'tion now would be
Johnson and to pour funds willing to support a compel-.
into Democratic Party races,.sory arbitration law.
across the Nation; in Novcm-1 . The resentment cannot af-
ber. But, in some cases, he will. feet the President personally
have a hard time doipg.; it, this year. But COPE officials
The Council, male up?:of 2i} and Meany argue that it could
vice presidents, MMcany . and 1 result in the election to the
AFL-CIO Secretary-Tr'easu_?er 90th Congress of a large num-l
William F. Schnitzler, is the ter of Republicans who might
ruling body of the federation~leven promote restrictive labor'
and usually, .,sets, .,political legislation. 1
policy. Political analysts inside the'
Since Mr. Johnson took of?, labor movement feel that the
fice, its policy.has been to sui)- Democrats stand to lose morel
port him. and most Democrats than-50 house seats plus some,
in Congress. That support can key Senate races and a' few
be moral, through'public state- { governorships.
ments, of purely ?political,1 They poii t out that the Viet
through campaign contribu? nam war is' working against
tions and the registration and Democrats in the election' cur- Meany is also. deeply can
vote drives conducted by the rent racial troubles across the ;corned about the gubernatorial
AFL-CIO, Committee on Po- country are producing a poll- races in California, where'
litical Education (COPE), tical reaction that labor men labor's problems are compli-,
Leaders'. of the federation's, feel will favor the that labor ic:?ns,cated by deep divisions within
130 national and internationalI.ancl ir,, the farm states there isl the state AFL-CIO. A four-
unions continued to go along widespread discontent with Ad- member task force of the Ex
'with Mcany's moral support ministration agricultural poli-; ecutive Council has been as-
of the Administration. But a cies? ` signed to coordinate labor of
number of,,unions are far be- In some st tcs, such, as; forts on behalf of Gov. Ed-
low their "quotas" in COPE mend G. Brown in his race
Michigan, Ohio . and Illinois, against Ronald Rea
contributions and others, de- all of which have large con- girt.
spite pleas by Meany, are not gressional delegations, union Another task force has been
pushing either fund or vote strength is sufficient to make assigned for Illinois, to work
drives this year. the difference, the labor lead-
Many of the union leaders, ers -say. But the political staff liberal Democratic incumbent,
including some p r o min e n t men in the AFL-CIO are wor? ; in his fight against Republi-
m e m b e r s of the Executive Tied that the necessary effort can industrialistCharles H,
Council, are angry with Mr-1 may not be made., Percy, ?
Johnson. .. ....- .. f;'.. !
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l.1 HERE will be more daggers than
cloaks flying around a closed
room in Chicago's Hotel Ambas?
sacior East come Aug. 22. If the "in
iigence community" of labor's high
nand is as well-info.'-:_ad as it
usu?:Iy it, the word is that the Reuther
brothers plan to give the Centra In?~
telligence Agency another going over.:
Their position is that the CIA is active
in the labor affairs of the world-and
..:cbably inside American unions, _oo.'
The brothers, Walter and Vic-
disapprove. And at least,
Victor has openly charged that
man,i, axo" at 4:0 except C,
Cha ::; t3 s haaCIa.
labor's president George Meany ', Meany's people believe that'Victor 'IFLD'is joirrly sponsorcdby la
and his International Affairs di. F euther's statements to the Senate bor, management and Govern?t
rector, Jay Lovestone,, work Foreign Relations Committee chair.' :rent. Meany i~ president; J.
closely with the CIA. ;man promoted Mr. Fulbright to sub :peter Grace, of the famed steamship`
It will all come to a loud and angry,gest publicly 'that the CIA intervenes .'line, is chairman of the board. But the,
showdown during the AFL-CIO Execu?'in U. S. union elections. - ' :active executive is a battling Irish'
tive Council. (high command) session.; The Senator freely discussed the ..man, Joe Eeirne, head of the Com-;
No matter which side wins, the CIA,.rnatter with me: munications workers of America. He'
ti which undoubtedly has a unit of labor: "This is one of the questions,':-''is AIFLD secretary-treasury. I
specialists doing what comes naturally, which had been In my mind,"It is the opinion of many observers,
in a world rapidly going labor, will " said ':e gentleman from Arkan-? `5 who have been out in the field, inciud-;
lose. Certainly some\of its classified, sas. "I have had .diuggest ons that,';,' ing this columnist, that AIFLD has,;
activities will be made public. , they (the' CIA) had taken a very: .,dond mighty constructive work. It edu-1
For some weeks now, Victor Reu?- strong part jn labor union organ. ..icates some 20,000 workers and Iabor(
ther's people have had a small task; zation in the Dominican Ilepub '?i officials throughout Latin America, It
force here digging up what they can .ic. I believe. they have worked builds worker-owned housing in the',
to bolster his charges that Meany and. hand in glove with Meany's crowd slum areas of big, cities such as Mexicci'
,Lovestone virtually are CIA agents. i in the AFL-CIO. But I truly don't City.
They have a skilled and prolific writer know whether there has been any It has put up social and welfare
weaving the material into one docu. interference in American unions. audi clinic cent.zrs in such impov.
. ment which could be published easily. I tried to get that answer from the crisped areas as 'Carping, in Bra.
;Insiders believe that this will be pub.;; former (CIA) Director Raborn. ,, L.' nil's,rural port .cast, which I vis? 4
lished as a pamphlet just before them nt he would not reply." Ited last year. It provides disaster
'Council meeting. This ma ,r of alleged CIA opera l' aid. It builds playgrounds.
LAGER inside the Mean y inside labor had, followed by a 1 ' What has angered Meany, Beirne
y campanonth the flare-up-over Victor Reu-, and Lovestone most has been the of-'
over the original and recent'ther's open attack, no. only on Meany. feet on the AFI-CrO's international
charges by Victor Razther `:r_-'and Lovestone
but upon the American work
It' would be' hampered in its
.
,
. been compounded by reports ti:a 'cute for Free L_ :ar Deve!op.nent.: bolstering of free unions abroad.
yo6nger Reuter, 54-year-old Ret:, .er h:. :ted.`hat sec-1 Even if were a?CI.A-AFL?CIG
went to cn. ulbr[ght with repo of'All LD hae
. ~ , urea by CIA- link somew erg.
.'1,1y'should such'"a1cl.
,
.
a~, d lrlcany-Lodestone inteL' ,Q .ts, especially I! Panama.' ,' to'nne's cos ..y cd considered by any?
` `Yh ~r~orid s,.,?_..c~ia_ o0
oo4 ~-Nnseonn~AW-.hetna?
 . `- I l; --fV r
nisi. that AIFLD. has \ done 1 T i+ i
0
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7>>side Labor
oducatrs some 21,000 workcts
and labor officials throughout
l
i owned housing in the slum areas ,
of big cities such as Mexico City. i --I'_ I
t
It has put. up social and wel-
fare and clinic centers in such
impoverished areas as Carpir.a
in Brazil's rural' northeast,
ikl Sc more daggers than cloaks Victor l iii ?r's str,emcn~s sn WR .on Joe Beirne heard 'of
iiy'?;;_: around a dosed room in .Ihc Senate 1' ri i r, "R~I,(dcnc Vic lot' Rctltiter's " charges, no
Chic ,,,?.,'s Helel Ambassador East :.C 1ilmitice eilalr,,tar prompted ceiling was too -high for him to
-omo August 22. Mr. Futt ri Stf r; : oggest pub- hit. He pmgtired to' bring char es
?' "intc'.iigenc~ community" licly..ihat the..,CL; intervenes in? against Victor,: though the lad
s high command is as union.elections? tots is just thc.nead o'f the United
w, 1, ?ortiteci? as it _usually is,"? 'The Senator . frrt'iy discussed Auto : Workers International Af-
;,, rnrd is that the Reuther the matter with t:1i..s repr',t?i? fairs Dept.: and is not' a mem-
tir:,r, Alan ;o give the Central when I ?phoneed him the other b, ,r of 4e high council which
Int. II, ence..,Agency another ba day, nu'c>ls?'6n August 22.
ins o ,r. '"MI is one of the quest lots What has angered Meant',
'Inc..- position is that the CIA. e,.hich had been in my min t.' Bcirne tnd T,ovesfone more than "
is a(I.Ve in the labor affairs of ;;,,id the gentleman from Ark-;.n- .-th(5 cellicistp made;. by the
the \\,-rld-and prcbiibby inside.as. "I have had suggeai ,s ttctttliers has b cti? the efmoel on
Ant(: ,?an unions, too. that they (the CIA) had take-;; III, AFL -' CIO s international
nr lirotlleis; Walter and Vic vei;v strong part in tabor uni,?n t+or(,1- Workers 'of America. He is A1FL
year-old, Victor, went ' to, ficn. secrctaty-treasurer.'
Fuihrighl with reports of allc;;nt It Is the opinion of many oh
Meany Loveston intcllignnres 1 servers who have been out in
activity..:.. the?:.fiehl. in h.xlint;,.thiir_cplum?
.
c?;n,piv with inc C
It will all come to a loud and Iru'y -,don't,"kntiu w^hePhcr there
showdown during the AFL -hips c',en'"? any interference in.,
('I(. i?secutive Council ? (high, ,Aniericart unions, I tried io 4ei
ind) sr,r.~,ifiC.:aE~~'~Yri
.. +M1wa...1C?lu~l.-(~uN:~11S~.~JLLI' :.u...~::rA
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Racial ;r
JUN 2 3 1966
DAILY NEWS
law , ,"owe
' `winded tip oallity~ti International De;-artmept. of .the : A~'L CIt-
speech w ant aeiega[es in new Yori wicn um Uteme:, iris Witte
is ripe for. radicalism: Communism is "relevant" to America.'
.Communists must unibe in a popular fmntwith the peace and civdl
e I VE ng w s
Gus HALL, leader of American communists, read a 36,000-word
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and added:
Q 1, ~-~;~~ ~~ ~id"~ '? "Thl^ i~..._..-_ ?
u_ "__ '? .'..:. .,? a ,,
d
veri1
ce
ure
was totally Ignored in , ;.
,
'
this situation. A free labor move. ?
' 4 f t. ' '
ment belongs to all of Its mem-
hers and Is not the private prop.
the AFL-CIO, representing ap- T (; ...
Proximately 1,600,000 members, '?.1{.l ' ~? ; ~~'
the UAW declares its Intention I ~,'+~ ;.';r-
to exercise Its full democratic
right to express its views on all policy matters
both forei
n
si
d
~
';
,
g
an
;
,
,~+
,,j...,?? ;;..,y..,?
domestic, that relate to the wel. +?'i,;r""~:,;
j fare of UAW members and the
EY GEORGE MOIUUS well-being of .our nation."
WASHINGTON - A debate over foreign policy, ton But the seetton that made ?
1 g Meany furious and evoked shouts 611 r ?1? ?''j
kept within the inner sanctum of the 'its an absolute damnable( , ` ~'
e AFL,-CIO by the' a , Meany administration, broke into the open with explosive lie" , as ~tdte following in Reu. ~ ,t
of the federation's council called under Ja t,gveajone'O..,di'e o1- In the last 24 hours,'the UAW ,j?; ,,,, ~.34.
o to hear Walter Reuther's sharp shin iis invnlvod" w l-, r opg has learned from authoritative ! r
the
practices on international affairs.,
Specifically the council was
called to act on the objections i
of the executive board of the
"1,600,000-member United Auto
Workers to the boycott of the
UN's International Lablor Or-
L?ganiration conference in Geneva'
by the AFL-CIO delegates. On
that score Meany won 18 votes,
to six for Reuther's position,
with five council. members ab.
-sent. But few. observers ex-'
petted the resuLt'to be otherwise.'
,,..,7GO va the f ,
.r .crrutc a'rmospnere- alreatfvi __-___
dher's May 21 charge o Ci tinder consideration by AFL-CIO
ih.fntve..n..n!?-wait:-.,, ..91 Y.t '.. _? _t?1 headquarters for approximatel
y
tack on the ? Lovestone-Meanyt a week prior to Ike walkout and
Dominican Re-+ it Is, therefore, evident that there
position in the
,
public situation, the election of was ample time for consultation I,j+'M
a representative of the Polish and discussion with the leader b y;
government, as chairman of the ship of the AFL-CIO before any r:!.,
the Meany-Lovestone crowd into CONFIRMED w. `` 'r6
of the AFL-CIO group there council meeting and the renorE
hour council seSslon was just a.j bership of the AW, like many his denial that pressure by the.
curtain-raiser for the belated de- ~ other Americans, are deeply des- Johnson Admire stration made
b etr, in inbor ranks on issues of. turbed about the growing nega- him change instructions to Faupl'
1 ,war and peace, such as is tak five character of AFL-CIO policy . to consider his wd-thdrawal as
Ine place in the country gener In the field of international at. only a "protest" and not a pull.
ally. fairs, of which the withdrawal out from the ILO.
The groups around Meany and of the AFL-CIO delegates from` Meany said that as soon as
Reuther have been known to the current International labor' he received word of the Geneva '
quarrel over issues many times organization (ILO) Confere
walkout
he called the P
ce i
e
id
,
n
s'
r
s
ent
since' the 1955 merger. But un- but the latest expression," de- and met him on the following
like the patch-ups that frequently Glared a statement by Reuther day, The matter was turned over -;1%'r;
took place, this time they made public while the Council; to a 'meeting with Secretary of 1r+{,
Lemcrgcd with tensions higher was still In session. O State, Dean Rusin aarlloo h.e
_. b ~?..:
-
enc to the entire field of ore- of Geneva "must be evaluated in:' Meany said he Dosed the ones:
ign policy and viewpoints wider the broader context of the world ? tlon to the A it min 1 s t r
t 1
~i
a
n 4
o apart than ever. in which we live," declared Reu. whether the AFL-CIO should ;
~ ANOTIHBR t3ESSION ther-as he death with th
continue I
th
IL
i
n
e prin
e
O In the light
p
. r That the debate is far from eiiple of coexistence under which of the "deterioration" taking 1' ,
fro
close UN operates, citing the opin-. Place and the danger' of "cap. :.
made by an six vote as ion of the Pope and other public . ature" of the UN body by the
y
la withMean
fi
ur
R
C
"
es.
g
euther further noted a
ommunists.
Specifically he
pouncee that th
e council1
aneech of -
li
O
po
cy as rmpee. governing division- of the ILO. - , ,}
pnsition of the AFL-CIO, the
mented by Meany and Lovestone: Rusk advised him to "hold on'
first time in history that sue of
said 'runs counter to the seat" and Meany corn-
discussion was agreed to. to the spirit of this national municated that advice to Faupl.
Also, the next regular. quart- effort" and the 'AA's board is It was then that Faupl came Into
erly, session of the council on "In sharp disagreement" with the' the 1LO, labor division Just to
_.Aug.- 22, In Chicago, will placel.e_Ho
'
t __ . .L-_ .--._ - -
n
a
:.charge that tho 7 lt)- Gti declared, Is'PossibleL only lathe ?vma. ON PARALLEL"" tehiatioital. - afl'iirs, deparhn X10 DUBS
n ~__?J,dBldinerltil517t ?~ae+In ruwrs/e.i rY" A =r%nee nw %w er%nninw nn A 11f% n"
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Walter Reuther, second In command
~ ~?ji'~~ ~?~ rfp~~ in the AFL-CIO, has kept silent even
-?.. ... ~~. uhou?h he has been opposed to much
0 't of this arbitrary behavior. He has
~?~?~~, ?~'~ . wanted to maintain at least a? semblance
of harmony and avoid a direct clash
with Mcany, whom he had hoped to.
By Marquis Chills succeed in the No. 1 post. His -chances
THE AMERICAN labor movement seemed to depend on preventing an
' has once a ain cut acrossTllmerica's dc? open break in :he uneasy alliance be,
: _._, - twcen the old-line unions and the new-.
Glared foreign policy with an act he. industrial u'aIors,
wildcriiib to."oir;anilca"Tabor iii; ilie' rer 1 Once Reu1 f'.e;'a sharp criticism of the
of the.non-Communist_wQr)d., The :1`r".f,= walicout at Geneva became known, the
C:IO delegates walked out of ti:e Inter= long ):Hives were out. The old liners in
national Labor Organization conference the craft unions can bn expected to lisp
when the head of the Polish delegation the opening to try to deny him the top
was elected president by a vote of 184 job, no matter what papering-over Is
to 183. done in the immediate aftermath of the
American business representatives dispute.
stayed on, as did those from Govern Reuther is 50 years oid, and the time
ment. But-following the George Meant/ is rapidly running out when he might
line, American labor, of all the 10G, provide the dynamic leadership which
nations represented at Geneva, refused. most. observers feel the AFL-CIO ur-
to abide by the outcome of a free elec ;en' ly needs. Weighted with the Inertia
tion to an office largely formal and of the past, the organization has failed
procedural. While the move was made to adjust to rapid changes in the labor
without Mcany's sanction, it is of a force.A negligible effort has been put
iece wit
th
i
p
e d
ctates of the man who into organizing the increasing mass of
h
sits behind him and calls the foreign white collar workers.
Policy moves..... ?
Jay I;ovestone..Is a figure as remote MOST OF the AFL-CIO chiefs
a~~ii .n c ertous its"'.'the?great khan and ca"ulcin'f-care 1'rss~'abrnit' the'"Ihferna
on the issues oT~"foreign policy alinast bona]'"Lilior' O~rgaiii atioii. 7thas `noth?
as 'aUs' 6111-f o in the lab'or' n i;ccment.'inn to do with"the Inid'fa'ctsrofages,.
Once a Communist, he, beg cue, as havc l?iour?,3 'and?'fringe' hciiofits?'`tint? absorb
so many :otiicrs, .a ?1>iofe si~nai anti- their time 'and 011er
Comtiinnist_ Ills hold on the 72 -year old , Inc ''coriilucl foreign policy in a
"L
AL?CI(7 Rresident ind-'tlur nierardc~ 'democracy Is, for the unhappy con.
of lgiiig mo u7s niI'll IM"ic'Si, ;st;?ni," cilictors, like running a race in which
that no intci fcrci cc' fir' even criticism , every conceivable obstacle is thrown
is tolerated in the way. President Johnson, seeking
An important Initiative of the lien-; avenues to the East, recommended
n ,dy and Johnson Administrations ;s c
n
i
th
f
ges
n
e tari
f at that would
ha
. the opening of new avenues to the Com-: give satellite nations that do not now
munist bloc countries. This is in t e , have it favored-nation treatment, This
.belief that Moscow's grip is weakening j was a bold move in marked contrast
and signs of independence should be to the timidity of only a few years ago.;'
encouraged. It is recognition of the fact. It was vetoed by Chairman Wilbur
that America's allies in Western Europe;- i\?Iiiis of the ]louse Ways and Means
are drawing closer to the East through) Committee and is apparently dead for
greatly expanded trade and cultural ex', this session of Congress. That is "one
changes. man, one vote" with a vengeance, It
{MA cones just as Italy, France and Britain
THE AFL-CIO has often tried to are making big trade deals with the
frustrate this Initiative. The Intern a- ~ Communist bloc countries,
tional Longshoremen's Association an- The widening conflict in Vietnam is
nounced they would not load ships with the obvious reason for the, failure to
wheat for the Soviet Union and the make some progress in casing tensions
Communist bloc countries. It tools pro- ~ between East and West! The President
longed effort at the highest level to , sent to the Senate a consular treaty
reach a compromise that made some with the Soviet Union which had obvi.
shipments possible. The longshoremen ous mutual advantages for both powers.
have repeatedly proclaimed their re- The treaty was "vetoed" by J. Edgar
fusai to unload cargoes from'Communist Iloovet'. You pays your money, as was
countries, no matter how small and 'once said of politics here at home., and
negligible in the total of American; you makes your choice of your own
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IEANY TO -REBUKE
REUTHER' ON 11.0.
WASHINGTON, June 13-
'George Meany has scheduled a
showdown this week with Wal-
ter P. Reuther over the A.F.L.-
C.1.O, boycott of the cutrent In-
jernational Labor Organization
.conference,
The confrontation will, come
on Thursday at a special meet-
ing of the 29-member executive
council of the American Federa-
,tion of Labor and Congress of
-
,/'
Meany has called for,what will
/~ onim,nt? In n .rnIa of rnnf9Annn
,labor delegation ied by Rudolph no special authority , was Aced-. walked out of the I.L,O.;eA_ i .... .. ,Y?:.,;, _ et.,,,,
'inc uoycott oegan? cariy 2nlSiforeign policy committee, The',
;month when a United StatesiMeany ' forces .,contend that,!
but it has highlighted faction=
alism and has sharply ? dimin
ished Mr. Reuther's chances of
succeeding Mr. Meany as A.F.Ly
C.I.O. president. '
The dispute over the T.L.O.
boycott is the sharpest person-,
al fight between Mr. Meany and
Mr. Reuther since 1963, when
they split over the choice of a
candidate to fill an executive
council seat. Since then, the two,
labor leaders had sought to
The controversy stems from.
divergent political views. The',
Meany wing of the A.F.L -'
C.I.O. is stanchly anti-Commu
nist and Is opposed to coopera-`
Lion with nations that suppress
free trade unions.. But the
Reuther wing takes a more lib-
eral view of foreign policy, and
existence.
The Reuther forces believe,
that ? Mr. Meany ? ordered
the T.L.O. boycott, and they con-
tend he should first have nh-' .
;Mr..Meany's backing.
Mr. Reuther, president of the;
11.5 - million - member 'United
,Automobile Workers, denounced
Mr. Meany last week for the
boycott on the ground that it,
"
"
.was
unwise, undemocratic
and
,eOntrary to A.F.L.-C.I.O. policy.
Meany In Firm Command .. ,
''here was no doubt here to-.
,dad that Mr. Meany, who is in,
firm command of the A.F.L.-
? C.LO? would receive the execu-
Aive council's support on anyi
`issue he put forward. But his
;decision to, call the federation's)
'policy-making body for the
showdown with Mr. Reuther was
a move to rebuke .the auto union.
:leader for his open challenge.
(. The I.L.O.
controversy , has
,suddenly revived latent hostil-
ities between the two men and.
E,is,'putting a strain on A.F.L.-i?
Q unity: The 'fight 'is not,
1lkely, Lto _ pplit the,, federation),
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JUN 14 1966
x'abor' For ' an Polic
;The protest, by Walter P. Reuther, president of the`,'
United Automobile Workers, against American labor's;;
;~.dJmocratic choice in Eastern Europe.
' P'or 'for suppression of free . devision-making and
ct I from Communist Poland to preside at the I.L.O;
conference. Certainly no,action by the American union
delegation could have been more Ironic; a walkout
flied on the vaunted abhorrence of United States
The specific Issue at Geneva was election of an offi-
~valkotxt from the annual Conference of the Interne-.
Itional Labor Organization is important and valuable'(
fbr reasons that transcend the immediate issue. It',
g; sages more open debate inside the A.F.L.-C.I.O. on'+,
}.tlla wisdom of the adamant stand its president, George'l
Meant', has taken against any East=West rapproche- 1
ment in the labor field. . _"j
T. 'Even though Mr. Iteuthei Is likely to find himselt!~a
fziendleas in the A.F.L: C,LO. Executive Council test ,
thin against.any. communication between Soviet and
American unionists is, no way to demonstrate the'',
''vjrtues of freedom. Nor,is the idea of independence-
festered by the pro forma discussion that precedes'
t~e , adoption of.' most A.F.L.-C.I.O. foreign-policy
statements. 1i
','jt is true that Communist unions are not free in any)j
s?pse that parallels the freedom of American unions;"'
at the Meany policy of clanging down an Iron Cur-,'
namo o~f;1 fli trillion; American' wgrkera.--;iay'
,righ of?fdissent In an organization that,pp'ika 3h4le
); fi,t-from, the,ne'w respectability he has,given;to the..
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t
JUN 14 1966 '
Reuther's letter pointed out that
the walkout "merely because of
an election-about which no ques-
tion of Impropriety has been
'raised-ik not to their (Americana
delegates') taste." lie also saidt'
the walkout is the kind of action, '
for which American labor in t e
past has condemned the Commu-i
nists and that the United Nations
would have been destroyed if'the
United States Government had
walked out whenever a Commu-
nist was elected to a position
there.
Ile also contended that the free
.world can do more to advance Its
cause among the Communists not
by Isolating them, "but rather by
promoting relations with ahem
that will enable us to demonstrate
the superior value of our' demo-
. cratic institut.lons."
With the reopening of the once-
mended 'chasm between' Ms..any
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us
i' CAUSES CONCERN ~! Unite N over the ye ha wwa the
itniled Nations i[ we had walked
nut whenever a Communist was
elected to a top position," the
Administration Seeking TO' spokesman said.
,r.. - And, In turn, we have rebuked
M m~ a'-'e'UZfi'i- " the Communists for walking out
th U 't d N ' h
t
~n e m e a
ions w enever
they staged such a scene:
"Certainly this is embarrasing
for the United States, and we are
trying to make amends." ?
n?v HELEN DELICH BENTLEY
Waritime Editor o/ The Sitn)
Washington, June 13-The Jnhn-
son Administration is straining to
mend the breach created In the
international Labor Organization
last week by George Meany when
he . ordered the . United Stales
worker delegation to boycott the
eoofcrence ' after a Communist
was elected president.
At the same time, the AFL-CIO
iwithdrew completely from the
'current . conference, and. Meany
The ILO gyp} esident whose elec-
(ion created such a di,tuhance is
Leon Chain.
Faupl, w?hn belongs to the .Inter-
national Association of Machinists
(AFL-CIO), Issued a statement
through his union which'caid that
the pole's election "has placed in
seriqus jeopardy to continuance
of the ILO as a tripartite organiz-
ation," namely labor, manage-
ment and governments.
ordered Rudolph Faupl, the chief'- For Coexistence
United States worker delegate,' Al. the recent convention of the
home. I Auto Workers in Long Beach, it
That incident not only has became evident that Reuther's
created a crevice between Meany; philosophy was more one of coex-
and the Administration but a dce-, istence than', the hardline AFL-
per chasm between Meany,'A):L-! CIO positon of not having any-
CIO president, and Walter P; thing to do with the Communists. ,
Reuther, . president of the .United
Auto Workers.
Meeting Called
Because of a severe chastising
given Meany by Reuther over the
'Geneva event, Meaify has called a
special meeting of the AFL-C10
Executive Council' for Thursday
"to consider important matters."
,Meany sent out , the telegrams
to the 28 other Council members
Friday after he had received a
scathing letter from Reuther de-
nouncing the AFL-CIO's boycott
-as "unwise, undemocratic, contra-
ry to established AFL-CIO policy
and unauthorized by an AFL-CIO
body with authority to change
that policy."
It .is believed generally that
Meany is seeking a vote of con-
fidence from the AFL-CIO Exccu,
tive Council and that he knows he
has the votes or he would not
have called the special meeting.
Support Sought .
The 71-year-old Meany obvious-! separation of the ?AFI:: and -the
ly was stung by Reuther's rebuke,i CIO after a 1044-ybat' marr~bgei'.,r,'.
it ur.ue eAirt nn,l ,- 4,.,,,,,n 1.. ,,....~ ?.K? ~~ `~~ I. ~VlAi!
support for ms sLana in oacxing;
the . boycott recommended origi-
nally? by Faupl who said he did'
not want. to sit''In the ILA after;
the Communist from Poland was;
elected. t '
An Administral.ion apnkesmanl
;received from Geneva regarding
h?. walkout' of. Fauppl, an effort
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By. JOHN A. GFt1tFs
SGOff IvCp01'tCT OJ TXF. ~~-ALL STREET JOCR~ AL
WASHINGTON-Georgo tifeany, president
of the AFL-CIO, and Walter Reuther, head of
the United Auto Workers union, are on a col-
ilsion courso again after surprisingly tranquil
relations in recent years.
The approaching clash, which seems cer-
tain .to come at a special AFL-CIO Executive
Council meeting hurriedly called for Thursday
by Mr. Meany, seems likely to set back Tfr.
Reuther's long-range chances of succeeding to
the presidency of. tho powerful lalsor federa?
lion.
The subject of the special council session
will be Mr. Reuther's -sharp criticism In a
letter io Mr. Meany last.weck of the American
union delegation's boycott of the current In?
tornational Labor Organization conference in
Geneva. Many union officials, including Mr.
Meany himself, read the Reuther letter as a
direct attack on Mr. Meany's leadership of the
federation on foreign policy matters. The fed?
eration chief, it's understood, reacted angrily
and, 'after checking with various members of
the Executive Council, called the apectal coun-
cil session for this week.
' The expected battle, however, will be one?
sided. Union officials believe bir. Rcuther's
.attack has, in effect, turned the ILO matter
into pre in which council members will be.
voting ellher'1or Mr, Meany's leadership or
against ?it. On those terms, Mr. Reuther is
bound to lose.
There is hardly the remotest chance though,
that ihe~ resumption of battling between Mr.
Meany and Mr. Reuther will endanger the 11?
'gear old merger nE the AFL and CIO. Constant
and bitter conflict Between Mr. 'Meany and
Mr, Reuther in the past raised tho distinct
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threat of a federation breakup, but union off!- i portance in the thinking of the European and"
Lialq currently agree that this danger is safely Asfan trade union officials: So Mr. Reuther i
j denounced was decided on because a Polish
~ Communist had been elected president. In hi's
i letter
which became publtc
Dfr
Reuther de?
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dared the move was "umvise, undemocratic, ~
t
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con
rary to established A}i
L?CIO policy, and
unauthorized by any AFL-CIO body with au?
thority to change that policy." The letter was
sent after- a two-day meeting of the UAW's
Executive Board in Detroit, which. gave Mr,
Reuther unanimous baclcing for his stand.
'Gross Dlsservlco'
b'Cr. Reuther remarked it was a "gross dis?
service to democracy" for Use American union
delegates to walk out on the Geneva conference
"merely because the result of an election .... is
not to their taste. This is precisely the kind of
action for which American labor has in the
past justifiably condemned Communists."
The American Trade Union delegation was
headed by Rudolph Faupl of the Machinists
union. Federation sources said it was Mr.
Faupl's decision to walk out, and the order
didn't originate with Mr. Meany.
Now thak ho has been attacked, however,
1vir. Aicany is likely to assume full responsibil?
ity for the move. Because this will turn the
issue into a personal battle between the two
labor leaders, many union officials wonder why
bir. Reuther launched the attack. These offic?
leis are mystified, too, about why Mr. Reuther _'
chose an issue about which most U.S; unions
officials care very little.
One explanation is that 7vlr. Reuther, fart
more than his colleagues, cares about the im??
age abroad of the U.S. labor movement, He,
sees the_Geneva walkout of the U.S. unionists
as creating an -image of arrogance to other;
union officials in Europe and Asia. `
While the ILO doesn't mean much to TJ.S.~:
union officials
it stands -much hi
h
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Damage to Now Image its global influence, appeared to feel deeply 1
But the coming ,confrontation cannot help enough about the Geneva incident to risk, even i
but send Mr. Reuther's stock within the fed- a battle with Mr, Meany in making hie 'dis-
,eration plummetfn;, w!th considerable damage agreement'at the walkout apparent..
to the pow imago the UAW chief has been try- ''- ` "'-'-~- -??-~ '-:_..~~~, ,_.._,_
ing to create. ~
In recent years, Mr. Reuther has been get-. .
flog -along almost famously with the man ha- ?
had clashed with nearly every time they got" ~ .
together in the early years of the AFL-CIO
merger. Mr, Meany has been finding Rir. Reu? ~ ~ ".
they a firm supporter and a willing coopers- ?
for in the affairs of the AFL-CIO. It was a
change that some federation officials still find
difficult to believe; theso officials think Mr. ,
Reuther decided thnt if he wanted to becomo ?
president of the AFL-CIO some day, his best
tactic was to join Mr, l\teany, because he
couldn't licit him.
This strategy seemed to be highly success- ?
ful: Federation men only recently. expressed
i the opinion that Mr. Reuther's chances of suc?
ceeding Mr. Meany had vastly improved over i
the past five years. Tho aid distrust and hos? i
tility to .Mr, Reuther among the older AFL
union chiefs ha
d
b
een visibly dwindli~tg. But by
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11IEI14BERS OF the Senate` to Russia.
Commerce Committee, ones 2. Postponement of they ping trades unions that walked. ,
o[ the .hardest working, on, first installment of the debt.' of[ the Gateway job had only
Capitol Hilt, have become. 3. I;ussia-x involvement in three Negroes among 5600
'experts on almost everything Nasser's long dispute with members. A Department of
'from packaging fish to pro-;Yemen, which has tied up Labor survey shows, further;
'tecting fishing grounds. 80,000 Egyptian troops. j that in Pittsburgh only four
The Senate has passed .ai 4. Finally, and most im?I out of 100 .carpenters htter?i
~fi.ruth-in?packaging bill and is portant, Kosygin officially in?. 'viewed were Negro 162Teicc--,
? considering ? a bill for the` formed. Nasser that he could wore none among
protection of laboratory ani-. not- ald~ Egypt with wheat. 'tricians, 19 painters and 14';
orals; a law establishing a~ Russia is too short of wheat plumbers. Th46esheet: metal-
~12-mile limit for fishing offs- to spare any for export, Negro among i
* * * ~ worker apprentices.
:the American coast ~ and a; ~.
law for, automobile safety. ;,Labor's AristocrACy . t. In Philadelphia,-there were
' Chairman Warren Magnu?;.,:. TIIE PUBLIC doesn't real-' only two Negroes among ill;
son (D-Wash,); w'ho was a'i ize it, but a .major obstacle toy' plumber Apprentices, 'none
bachelor for many years, has. both civil rights and Presi-;'among 48 electricians and 34';
become an .expert on such i dent Johnson's hold-the- .,iron ? workers. In St. Louis, i
'problems as "huge" _,gallan~ wage policy against inflation there were o17D carpenters}
icontainers and, .such sales;: and none among 121 eleclri-.i
,slogans as three cents off." ~ ~ is the lily-white aristocracy grow among ~
I' of labor.
Under truth-in?packaging, ; AFL-CIO President George clans; 60 -iron workers and 93
'the "huge" gallon would be ~... _ ~ apprentice plumbers; ~,
' banned. A gallon is a gallon, ~ ~, Meant' has made his peace
`? ~ The. "three cents off". saies's Ivith LBJ and is all for him. ; . ~ THESE SAME faUher?and?k
~'g i m m i c k would- also be. But not so the rank and file I son unions have been the
banned, together with similar ~: of the building trades un- ~ most notorious in violating--
'gimmicks, because there is! ,ions. In St. Louis, for in- I the President's wage guide-: ?
'~no telling what the threei stanca, .they staged a strike 'lino against inflation. The
cents is off 'of. ', at Uhe new Gateway Arch ~ New York- electrical workers
Also, the new law would;; project because three Negro ;get a base wage of $5.83?
'prohibit various .types of de-;';,'Plumbers were hired to help. ~, an .hour (plus v a r.i o u s
i construct a visitors' centen?ifringes), but. work a trick;
'ceptive packaging. ! Actually, the Interior De?, ;five-hou2 regular day plus'.
The bill, fathered by Sen?;'
Phil Hart (D?Mich.), u~nd god- ~ , partment had stipulated be-. ~ three' hours of overtime at;
;`'mothered by Sen. MaurlnQ ,fore worlc began that Negro ~ double pay so that they re?+
workmen could not be barred .i ceive about $82 for, an eight-'
Neuberger (D?Ore.), is now,: from ~ the job.. The general,' hour day.
.before the House. .contractor however, was un-.,.
. * * * , . ~ AFL-CIO plumbers in 5an`,
' ~ able to find any Negroes in 'Francisco and adjacent coon-~~
~Kosy~in Inca ~ Naseer . .the' Plumbers Union because I
~ ties recently s[gned a con-~
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- 'from Cairo, received follow- ~' fi,icc?training policy. raise totaling $3 an hour over.;
ding the visit of .Soviet Pre-; Finally, a small independ? ~ the next six years. Th'ey'
mier Alexi Kosygin, state ; :ent plumbing. .contractor,. receive approximately $7 an~
that his anuch glamorized pil?.' Elijah' Smith, a Negro, and ~ hour now.
' grimage was a dud. More', two of his Negro apprentices, ~ Detroit electrical workers;
,than that, it was a bitter blow; ? were hired. The AFL-CIO ~ got a 12.8 per cent package
Ito President Nasser. 'building trades struck in pro-, wage boost recently, com-
Though not obliged by pro- test. The National. Labor Re-i pared with the 3.2 per cent'
tocol to do so, Nasser accom-, ~ lotions Board obtained aFed- ~i guideline, while Detroit mill-
ponied Kosygin everywhere '~ era) court injunction to break i`,wrights got a 18 per cent
during his visit. Nasser was the boycott and protect the I .hike and Michigan cement'
,also careful to adopt a firmly -Negroes' jobs. ~, finishers ratified a 19 per;
anti-American line. 'And he A similar racial bias is evi-i Cent increase: Miami, Fla., ?
'sided entirely. with Moscow dent in numerous building. carpenters recent) signed. a
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. against Peking. ' ~ trades unions from coast to, new three-year' agreement
But despite ail of Nasser's coast, stemming partly from' giving, ? them a 31 per, :coat
;good-will gestures, Kosygin the still widespread practice) boost in pay. ~ . ~ ' i. . ~?.' '
.was cool. He made no con- a~p~~ n t i c e s-thusg barring ., .? 396At.~en-1R_oCtur_e llyeAfo~t~l.:,';.j
`; cessions.
`Here are. some of the them ~ frnm becoming union .
',.paints, according to the dip- craftsmen. The classic exam-~
? lomatic grapevine, which Nas? ". ,pie has been the Electrical
ser?,.hoped, but failed, to -get , Workers o[ .New. York, a vir-t
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