THE CIA AND AMERICAN LABOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800180008-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: April 18, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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1 % ? . GEORGE ? MORRIS'S American
book, /-The CIA and Am
Labor" was released last Fri-
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dal' by Intern
: (paper $1.25) Morris, who has .'' of. Public workers not an unions ? fairs director -Richard P. Davis.
".,...n4rv He assured the -members that
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editor of The Worker, has mo
des of expcrl 'federation of petroleum and , cause all salaries and expend I
three deca
than ? T nce as reporter and commentate Chemical Workers, with head- tures of : his. 'department ? wert
1erl02n labor ' -tern in Denver, was, used covered by "foundation grants.'
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ynove7nent. similarly as a
Below are excerpts ' from a ; tivity. It was headed by grants:
ht until 1965, when he re-. Another union that showed ex,
Morris's book, which , K
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ter of
chap I we feel will be of particular in- tired from the presidencies of traordinary interest In world. ac?
r.,ta.?nnHinnal Federa-' to On. Rptail Clerks In-
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{ ~AS THE NSA exposure Chemical and Atomic Workers , dent, James ' Suftridge, .is a'
AFL-CIO vice- ......:_ ::._
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_y~ras featured '- in blazing (AFL-CIO). resident until. his retire_mentl '~?vice-president of. the AFL-CIO
d of
eadlilies, ,Victor Reuther p 13Cer, involved In-and: a very close frien
..,_ _ Knight bad lorM'g _ Ia, ..ac and wR, env .~uffrldr?. too. DrofMed
told 'the press,- : tneru l,, w Latin. Aerietlri i C116',Nlit-ttia,s iulcuaa,r- a---- -
the CIA'a . of the ?[ederation. Dut ''surprise, .at.'the. disclosure _th_at
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with the 'AFL-CIO than with , ? closed-, the IC
suf Of Newspaper Guild .arid other or-
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students... . I did my hest to '? '. ?ceived a monthly ganizations,
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gave
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to men
:.try to lift the lid on
. $38,000 in 1965
on
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ome day it will come out" (New `_ ?/Andreiw Hamilton Foundation item that came to ? light. '
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;-York Post Feb.' 16, 1967). Within - E_ Vi1h _a _ I'} [lade __ address. on of 's most
Ame
, days many of these connections - 'Other - foundations fronting for 1 bureaucraticallyunions had
were revealed.' The following isthe CIA channeled more hun-
It . its officials among the
anas' of dollars to l.two . of .
tions::
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dreds o
a sumriiary of the . ';.'concerning the trade unions and '.;Kn ght'Aorgalli tion (Washing corps of AFL-.CIO advisers
came to guide the 'Guyanese to
!
'the. CrA - as they, were- reported 'ton Post, .Feb. 23).
k weeks of .'`freedom.". Among them was
during the last' two ''.G:orge P. O'Keefe, head of the
:facts substantiate or _en arge' . THE. SERI 1 ewspapec
Suffridge's union. The. ACIA
[coon charges previously made,' jCuild, one 'of, the AFLGIC
used the ICFTl.'s International
be
;."land wCilca are iu, - r'?c ? ??-._ - ..;. onuauca~ u.,:.....U, ?.c.,, ----- - r, Federation ca L:Ierwai auu ~c...-
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this book. -the recipient of the largest sums .?
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With two CIA agents in charge from CIA dummy foundations. for?operations in other lands.
secretary-treas-
national affairs de Charles I'erlik
ade secretariat
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other
its
a.. 01 Still
?::partment, the American Feder- ,urer of the Guild, admitted .re- ;of the ICF,,Ur the International
'?: ation' of State, County and Mu- ceiving $1,004,000 within three ; Association. of Food 'and Allied
:.-nicipal Employes (AFL-CIO) ,'gears from several funds Iden-
'' received at least $60,000 annu- ' tified as= CIA channels..; The or- Workers Associations, 'with head-
'quarters: in -Geneva, was used as
ally to finance its work, in Latin ganization .? whose work was ,? a caper for CIA agents, accord-
from perhaps as early-
. general
America
Juul' Poulson
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. the Inter-American Federatioi\.V secretary of that body (New York
i
~t[year Jerry Wurf defeated the
n- of Working Newspapermen's Orr- ;,".Times', Feb. 23). Poulson con-
ident of the union,
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an
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Arnold
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, cochairman Lik many othersnieonths ear
-.e .'n m rr - re en nna rut relations 'with ' .t... c'rA? ...e1 1Der1;1' -.-a i.,' +he ArT._C_TO Execu?
arge
ent pres
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cum
... ganizations' of which .Perlik is
'firmed Victor Reuther
k
ousted the two
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der
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i.. revealed (Washington Post, Feb. ,~.'
source of the funds was exposed. 'reigfit men inpanama and one in
~. 23), the union's international de-. And like other's,' he claimed that'; { Colombia ? posed . as 'representa?-
nartment was for six years a' ..irresneative.of the source of the of, his organization, al??
British Guiana (now Guyana) -- -
mainly in Latin America, but -headquarters.. These men, added
affiliate WIU1 neaaqua^?1Ga4h London, a8 ~' roved For Release CIA-RDP75-(~0149R0OO 0 18 008-0
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money in e name, ".-Y influenced by the, CIA
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, ., and had an active hand in the' i also in Asia and Africa, through ?'Poulson, were- taking orders from
campaign of rioting and sabotage `? the parent International- Feder- t',And=ew .C.; McLellan,, AFI-GI
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' the- Guild Re-
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Africa.j financed :activities had priority,i porter (Feb.. 24) ' carried 'a long
of millions.- b__wrnrn. 1nterr,a44enal Af-