CIA LINKED TO AFL-CIO FOREIGN UNIT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400550034-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: May 23, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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AFL-CIO executive council.
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~, W?? - Reuther said that "what'
r=te--f seems to he one most recent-
Ira'TROI ~SxC1wt* example of CIA activities took'
place about two months ?ago in,
the International F oo d andt
~: ?: 'pg.~ Drink Workers Federation, head-,
,quartered in Geneva, Switzer-?:
S - 92,193 Nand, and supported by. the. AFL-CIO."
He (lid not elaborate..
MAY 2 3 1966'
;~. -- -- ~x PANAMA SITUATION.
* Eight individuals in Panama,
?~ )alone were posing as; officials-`
fi J nl,^e !representatives of the federa4
-* tion, he said, without the know)-;
~ ~ hedge of the federation's general`
'r O AFL-C_`
Isecretary'A Paulson.
U_w These, eight people had then
?icredentials of . a legitimate`
worker. organization, enablingK,
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them 'to function as they ?saw.t
By HARRY BERN-STEIN fit, .Reuther said, The only way
L.A. Times Wash neton rost
Tees Service Paulson was able to correct the":
LONG BEACH Cal f.,,situation was by sending a letter:
May 23.-There is evide
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that the AFL-CIO interna-;office because of this, Reuther
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tional affairs department is'said.
Al Zack, spokesman for the
1-involved' with the CentralrAFL-CIO, denied that the.Amer-
!Intelligence Agency in for-iican Institute for Free Labor"
reign affairs, according to at'development has. any connec--i
UAW official. ;tion'with the CIA or that Love
Victor G. Reuther, head of th"elstone. had anything, to do with,
UAW's international affairs de-)setting up the organization.
apartment and, assistant to his) LATIN MOVEMENT.
brother, UAW President Walter) Zack .said the "school"` is;'
P. Reuther, said in an interview w)ibout to graduate its ? 13th class'
yesterday:
The tragedy of the AFL-CIOI of Latin American labor leaders:
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and that its purpose is to.build,,
activities in the field of foreign a strong democratic labor moves
affairs is that they are a vest?'ment in Latin America. I
I pocket operation run by Jayl
Lovestone." Reuther said that as long as .`
President George Meant' has
CHARGES SECRECY such personal confidence iii,
Lovestone is director of the?Lovestonr-, I see no changes in
AFL-CIO's international affairs the f e d e r a t i on ' s foreign.
department. The UAW ended, Policies."
, its a n n u a I ' convention here) In one of the sharpest crfti-
la yet made of Lovestone by;
Saturday. a top 'union leader, Reuther'i
The extent of AFL-CIOIsaid: ?
involvement ? in the interna'M I?. Lovestone seems to
affairs of unions of other brought, into the labors; '
tries or in the political affairs movement the working habits
of those countries is either pub-.a n d ' undercover techniques,
licly unknown or, at best, only which he learned when he was
partially reported, Victor Reu-in the highest echelons of the
then said. Communist Party. I guess . it's
He said a substantial part of`awfully hard to break those
AFL-CIO international affairsf habits."
department activities are car Lovestone was a onetime
ried on in the name of the AFL-member of the party;' but
"broke with it to become one:of
Ithe nation's most dedicated.1
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