LOVESTONE'S ROLE BARED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400550027-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: June 12, 1966
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

THE WORKER
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George orr s
World of Labor
cone's ,11ele Barr
Now that it-is the trend to swear, "I am'not and
d' never have been" connected with the elk;i,the dirt-'
Is coming out. Victor Reuther could habe+''fiade his.{
exposure a decade or more back. Has not the?
clunnpinb of Lovestone. been one of the conditions'
the CIO insisted upon when merger terms were
ogrecd to with Meany in 1955? Meavy?simply didn't a
We need hardly remind readers of this column
of the numerous times since the IA.'. birth in
Central Intelligence Agency or years prior, Enal. wwe'emma attention
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exposed by a member ?of that. department. tions as "the JI4..ar1an ,in labor'!" and close _,col-
The statement of Victor Reuther, proving th
' minieicitis reports have been published of the way
cha d nd calling for a public inquiry of. th labor credentials a d the AFL-CIO have been used.'
'rCIA'sse of various greups, including colleges
*vrnYuns and all types, of foundations as coverups, ? u e
was made on May 22 in an interview that re in my book A~' 1961an Labor -Which Way?" pub-
lished-in-may,
onivorl wide publicity. Detroit's Free Press spread..; ._. .11
the story under its main front page '-headline. ? Tradc Unions has become-, mbarrassed by the
Victor Reuther, brother of Walter and both his, , A:FL-CIO's (hence the{~ IA's influence over its
assistant and head of the U~~ited Auto Workers aff'airs. I'rom,ycar to ~'~ar."tension between the -
international affairs departmc;1t, is also a member,; ICFTU. and the AFL-CIO's leaders has sharpened.
affairs, of which -Lovestonev is director. 'So he
says "the tragedy of the AFL-CIO activities in the A-U4?Cl a 'uV-la Leu CNpu`uum lii
field of foreign affairs is that they are a vest-Pocket certainly yvelcom It should contribute to en-
lightenment in the e debate over Vietnam -and for
operation run by Jay Lovestone." ei-gn affairs now beginning to develop in the unions, ,
Also, when he said that as long as "Mcany has.I among them the auto union: But hardly enlighten-
such personal confidence in Lovestone, I see no ing is Victor Reuther's assortion, as quoted in' the
i'changes in the Federation's foreign policy." Reuther Washington Post; that "Lovestone seems to have
noted that the operations 'u . nder Lovestone and brought into the labor movement the working,
Meant'" in this field are even kept secret from the habits and undercover techniques-which )e learned a.
members of tip AFL-CIO executive council. when he was ' in the highest echelons of the
it is awfully hard to break. the.5e habits."
newsmen ?" the most recent example of CIA ctiv- Lovestone was expelled from the Communist.;
ities" with the exposure of eight indiAdivrS- who Patix.-in 1028--- 37 years ago. He was expelled for
used the credentials' of the International Food and Toth factionalism and views that basically fore.
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!? Drink Workers Federation, operating ' out of, its . shadowed the course, he' follows ? today. For Reuther
)Panama Office, These eight did their dirty work to,. charge Lovestone with. -"Communist habits"
in the name of a legitimate labor organization. today, 37 years later, is on a par with the kind of
talk by Joe McCarthy or his heirs. Our land is lousy
7+C with creatures who infiltrated Communist, trade
INVOLVED in Reuther's 'charge is also the -union and other organizations of workers as spies, a ..
American Institute For Free Labor Development `l?rovocateurs, frame-up tools. and disrupters. ? ;
Are those "habits" to be charged to the or-,
(AIFLD), of which we have written frequently, ganizations they, seek to ' destro
that is operating a "school" in Washington alleg- y? Vic knows ? of
edly for training "labor leaders" for Latin America, ? course, that such reasoning makes no sense. But
AIFL?D is chaired jointly by George Mcany and': like many others, he. has acquired'. the "habit"
Peter Grace, .the financial mat;xlate+ and one. of of always -. saying 'Something to make sure no
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