VIC REUTHER AGAIN TIES CIA, LABOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600460024-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: January 26, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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ho is an administrative assist
t F k Reuther"
euth .1 nt to his brother, UAW Presi
J1 " ~,. .,..
? . ent Walter P. Reuther, indi
Again 'Ties ated that the government. was
sing the AFL-CIO, as a front.
CIA, Labor a number of areas.
The charges led to one of'
~..+ vo serious disputes between'
dim.- -Fi ie UAW and the AFL-CIO
er`
the UAW's international affairs foreign policy. The UAW''
as since announced that it
department, s a i d yesterday ! ill go its own way on impor-.
that he will stand behind state- nt policy decisions.
ments that he made indicating Reuther also said that a
that the AFL-CIO is involved, lear,' clean military victory,
with the Central Intelligence, i the historic sense" cannot,
Agency (CIA) in foreign af- accomplished by either side.
fairs. Vietnam.
Reuther was here yesterday He said that the war could :
for speeches at 'Wayne State ly be ended by a `.`political'
University and' the W a y 4'e ttlement" . through , political?
County AFL-CIO's. first of a nferences at the bargaining,
etnam is "not without. hoe"
in foreign affairs. P -
He denied he had ever 'said ~ d said that the current un
that the CIA was involved in r st in China could have a pro-
operations of the American In-.' unced affect on the position;
statute for Free, Labor Deve1- I t at Hanoi takes in the future.:
opment (AIFLD). Reuther, according to press
"At no time did I make any', r leases, was, scheduled to dis.
statements concerning a con c ss the UAW's current dispute'
nection between the CI6 and th the AFL-CIO on foreign
the AIFLD," Reuther said. Y lacy and other matters, bu
However, he said' he would; pounced upon his arriva
"stand on the statements ? I t at his subject actually con-'1
m a d e" concernin CIA in c rned labor acid its role' in
volvement in AFL-CIO foreign'.' f eign relations
affairs.
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