CIA-LABOR TIEUP IS OPENLY CHARGED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400550018-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: August 14, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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TEB PHILADETPHIA INQUIRER
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This is a duplicate of the article sent around at 4:
STATI NTL
for the last paragraph 'which changes its emphasis.
Victor Riesel
CIA-Labor Tieiip }
Is ?jeiily Charged
T hbith will be more daggers than
cloaks flying around a closed
room in Chicago's Hotel Ambasld'
sador East come Aug. 22. If the "in
telligence community" of labor's high
command is as well-informed as it
usually it, the word is that the Reuther
brothers plan to give the Central Ini
telligence Agency another going over.:
Their position is that the CIA is active
in the labor affairs of the world-and
probably inside American unions, too.`
The brothers, Walter and Vic.
tor, disapprove. And at least
Victor has openly charged that
lions inside labor had, followed by aI What has :angered Meany, Beirne'
NGER inside the Meany 'campimontli the flare-up'over Victor Reu-l and Lovestone most has been the of
over the original and recent'ther's open attack, not only-on Meany+ feet on the , AFL-CIO's International
charges by Victor Reuther has and Lovestone, but upon the. American work. It' would be''hampered in Its
been rmmnniinAnA t,.. a ..,.~_
' pu is vu vastly. I tried to get that answer from the erished areas as 'Carpina, in Bra-
Insiders believe that this will be pub , former (CIA) Director Raborn. zil's,rural northeast, which I vis.
lished as a pamphlet just before theBnt he would not reply." Ited last year. It provides disaster
Council meeting. This matter of alleged CIA opera%!' aid. It builds playgrounds
s
g n c 4,10. 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. andti clinic centers in such impov- -
nient which could be II' h
labor's president George Meany ' Meany's people believe that victor" IFLD 'is jointly sponsored by la
and his International Affairs di. Iteuther's statements to the Senate bor, management and Govern:
rector, Jay Lovestone,. work ''Foreign Relations Committee chair meat. Meany is president; J.;
closely with the CIA. ;man prompted Mr. Fulbright to sug Peter Grace, of the famed steamship`
It will all come to a loud and angryigest publicly that the CIA intervenes `line, is chairman of the board. But the,
showdown during the AFL-CIO Execu.ln U. S. union elections. active executive is a battling Irish='
tive Council, (high command) session.j. The Senator freely discussed thb.:, man, Joe Beirne, head of the Com-:
No matter which side wins, the CIA,.matter with me: . ,munications Workers of America. He'
which undoubtedly has a unit of labor;. "This is one of the questions';~.,"As AIFLD secretary-treasury.
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 the gentleman from Arkan.. who have been out in the field, includ-;
lose. Certainly some\of its classified, sas. "I have had suggestions that,,,,' Ing this' columnist, that AIFLD has;
activities will be made public. tliey (the' CIA) had taken a very: -..dons mi ht" constructive work. It edu-1
For some weeks now, Victor Reu 'strong part ju labor union organ-,' : f cates some 20,000 workers and Iabor l
ther's people have had a small task; : ization in the Dominican Repub.. '.f officials throughout Latin America. It;
force here digging up' what, they can lie. 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 Mexico'
,Lovestone virtually are CIA a ent
i th AFL '
o..ru.c ,... riGtl Lpuur L-vveiupmeny,i uvistering of free unions aoroaa. .. I
younger Reuther, 54?year`old, ~Vlctor, ,Victor Reuther had asserted that sec- l Evens If there were a - FL.CIO
went to Sen. Fulbright with reports of bons of AIFLD had been used. by CIA link somewhere, vyhy'8ho s tI
alleged Many Lovestone intelligence agents, especially In Panama. ~ to' one's country be considered by any
activityr. ~t.. -