WHY AFL BRASS LEFT WORLD LABOR BODY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100040071-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2000
• Sequence Number: 71
• Publication Date: February 25, 1969
• Content Type: NSPR

:The Story behin
By GEORGE MORRIS
'NEW YORK, Feb. 24
r
gorge Meany's top.5
ast week formally pulle
he AFL-CIO out of the In
crnational 'Confederation
I Free Trade Unions ' i
as most instrumental i
founding. The' real reaso
is that the Federation i
recent years has not bee
able to influence the wort
organization to serve as
tool of United States ? i
perialist policy.
The AFL-CIO hierarchy' n
chincry of operatives in La
involved with the Central Int
ligence Agency.
1 The disaffiliation was no s
i prise. The given reason that t
ICFTU is still considering
now independent United Au
cial excuse for the withdraw
years AFI.-CiO ore
I dent Meany, and his internatio
~affairs director, Jay Lovesto
have waged a war against
fort to return it to what tl
'.,termed its "original" object
1' } 'i while waging this. struggle t
several times brought the A
CiO to the brink of withdra
the federation has been buil
its-own "international," con
Crating on areas of greatest
In announcing formal withd
al during sessions of the
CIO's executive council mee
told newsmen' the money the
j oration alloted as dues to
ICFTU would be better spen
i its own "international progra
?1 in Africa, Latin, America
Appr."aved;F?o
P RGHT
91 iphdra rc d fain
AAL,%, and rtin,.? LI a.. .
Mcany's own "International". substance and only, a front or,
Meant' referred to the three" 5u labor-labeled subversion co-
agencies established by the nr L'. incidin with the ClA'A.
CIO, with hin)self chairman of
each mostly financed publicly A cold war product'
by the Agency for- Internal Dc-,r
As alreaay ae- The ICFTU was the result of
velopment (AID). tailed in exposures of these oper-,' y ars of effort'by Meany, Love-
the Daily World series tone, David Dubinsky of the
ations in Dec. ]2-13' on.' "CIA's. 'Labor adios Garment Workers 'and
's to split the World Feder-
Front' In Africa" and on the 'other' "CIA's' Labor Front in Latin anon of Free Trade Unions. I i.
America Oct. 8, 9 and 11r.they ;: