NEW CIA FINANCIAL AID FUROR ERUPTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100600003-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 12, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: May 9, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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The entry inteiiigcncL-
Agency was at ti;e center yes-
terday o: a new furor over its
,inane}al in:iltration of private
or::::;:izations here aad abroad.
cse were the develop-
the agency, it was
lear~c attempted in recent
clays to suppress portions of a
Saturday Evening Post article
by former CIA official Thomas
V. Braden. The article con-
tained details about the CIA's
,;:uncial support of American
labor officials, of a European
tour by the Boston Symphony
Orchcstra, and of the activi-
t;as of the Paris-based Con-
,, ess for Cultural Freedom.
ve George A. Meany, presi-
,ent of the AFL-CIO, de-
::ounced Braden's article as
"a damn tic" insofar as it
dealt with .the channeling of
CIA funds to the big labor
Fceer ation. :Many said . the
A' L-CIO had never taken-
rnc.:ey from the CIA and had
never worlceci with the agency
t}:rough tl:a Federation's in-
ternational ,xperts, Jay Love-
stone and -: ving Brown.
Q A trust-?e of the Boston
Svmnhony,]c1:ry B. Cabot,
e
The executive commission of.
he Force Ouvriere also issued
denial yesterday and protest-:
cl "coinplete}y false reports
vhich are obviously aimed at'.
un ting free trade unionism.",
Despite Micany's d e n i a L.
here. has been strong circum?'
tantial ' evidence that CIA,
oncy has been used on a
road scale by American labor
rganizations including the
h- crican Newspaper Guild,
he Retail Clerks, State, Coun.
y and Municipal Etnployces,,
nd the International Oil,,
hemical.and Atomic WorkersI
pion, ?
INIcany said yesterday that
if any CIA money had reached
these unions it was without'
their knowledge and through
i
ostensibly private foundations.
Ile said he had been asked
only once-prior to the AFL'-
CIO merger-to pass on funds,
to L?' u r o p c a n unions. The'
money was to be supplied by
a group of New York business-
men headed by :lverell IIarri?
man, Meany said. But the I
offer, he said, was rejected.
.Dubinsky, who attendcd,
1llcany's press conference, also i
denied any CIA involvement.,
)Many announced at the
meeting that the AFL-CIO
has agreed to put up $27,900
to help the American News
paper Guild continue Its inter-;
national activities. The Guild;[
he said, no longer. receives)
funds from foundations identi? I,
c]o" with orchestra's over Brown of e Afij TO
seas tour,.. was supported h. was contributed re recently as
1965 by Radio Free urw)c, a off his s trong arm squads in
State Dc;x.rtment funds, h recipient of CIA aid. 1,1,'N also' Mediterranean ports, so than .
said. received funds through tl)e . American supplies could be
c ':An editor o the Anglo -- ------ -. - " unloaded against the opposi-~
American agazine, ya/ncoun Farfield foundation, which in, tion? of Communist dock work
er, admittec} in London for th turn obtained money front ail cgs." He described a $50,000}
first time that the publicatio CIA conduit, the Sidney and!, CIA payment to United Autol
had received CIA money prio Esther Rabb Foundation. Workers President Walter)
.to 1964.1 ]elvin Lasky said E On its reported brush with' Reuther for labor organiza-;
counter was 'an unwittin Saturday Evening Post offi?, lions in Germany, and close
recipient' of CIA money su
cials over the Braden article, relationships between CIA
plied by a.c Congress for Cu the CIA had no comment yes-; and other American labor of~
oral : recrlom, which Laslc !terday. But a spokesman said:' ficials operating in Europc,)
l:: lped to organ: %e in the tat the agency had not seen the' among them Lovestone and;
Two ot,cr e i}tors of El - article until it was "in Print",, David Dubinksy's Internation-i
? Garment Workers,
Al Wahington) d
L
counter s,:bnattcu resign -
tions. Ora was Stephen
r -.: itish poet and a
wi:o was formerly c
rd.ior with Lasky and h
i-,een a contributing editor.
'.'.;e other was Frank ICe
)node, I)ritish novelist an
professor of English, who su
ceedcd Spender as co-e(lito
? Other sources reveal
that C onry had found
way .'?:N, an internatioK
n:??:i:traioll of 1)oets. pla
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wri;?jib, CUn.U?a, caaa,y ?ow w. ULLICLd1 sic Nca~wu?ar bu.c --
r,ovelists. About one half $15,000 in 1950 to Irving Lovestone or Brown had ever
I'L;\'s tit. vas rc )ort had an dealings with the
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Associated Press
orge 'Meany at news con:e:?euce over CIA activity.
G
t
a es
SLewa? t sop, al
i editor fof the magazine, said union.
r ' ` ? Heavy subsidies for the non-
questions about the CIA's ef? Communist French u n i o r!,
,forts to suppress portions of ..Force 0uvriere, were pumped
.the article would have to be! in by the CIA through Love-
put to Braden, who was un- stone, Brown and ILGWU,
available for comment. Alsop Braden said.
said he could not say that the ?MVlcany, at a press confcr?I
,ICIA "asked us to withdraw ence yesterday, strongly dc-
!the article. It was already in., n i c d Braden's allegations.)
iprint."_ Neither the old AFL .nor the.
I Braden stated in the article present AFL-CIO ever re-
d
e
that while serving as a CIA ceivcd. CIA funds, eany
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