WORKING FOR THE CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000100820011-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 17, 2014
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: December 7, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/01/17: CIA-RDP73-00475R000100820011-5
Dec emb or 66
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Scanning the World Press
THE AFL-CIO Department for In- ? .
ternational Affairs puts out a
monthly bulletin, Free Trade Union
News. One of Its issues contains an
article about the American Institute
for Free. Labour Development
(AIFLD) by its director, William
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. labour thus h...s a stake in dispelling ' ..
the 'Yankee imperialist' image."
So it isn't a m-eter'ot: "strengthen-'. countries. mis nas been given wide
ing democratic trada unionism" in ! publicity as an example of disinter-
C. Doherty. And Mr. Doherty has .. Latin 'America, but of ttirning Latin-. . ested assistance to the working peo-
;:.". many glowing things to say about .? American iini...iis into pliai.t tools.of _.. :pie. Actually, however, the housing
his institute. Its purpose, we are .:???the North Amer:can mr.nopalies. Anzi.sl loans are granted at high interest
told, is to "strengthen democratic... to do that, Atrit) maintains agencies, 1 ;rates and carry political stipulations.
trade unionism in Latin Amer- . , all of them closely linkcci with U. S..... A Uruguay paper, !Karelia, published
lea" and improve the living standards 7 :. embassies, in many bark of Latin,'i. the text of an AIFLD document per.-
of the Latin-American workers. ''''''? America. It. also runs a network of .taming to its housing programme: :-?
The institute was founded more : schools to train agents for work in the '..."AIFLD retains the right to veto rip-
.% . than four years ago, and its activities,,.. .Latin-American labotir movement. -:.:',. plications for housing on political
in Latin America are similar to those ...? In the first tour years of its exist--.,t' 'or trade union grounds."
of the Afro-American trade union "-... ence, Doherty writes, 40,000 particip-':' - . In fact, Doherty himself makes no
centre. The purpose of both is to .:,... ated in one or more phases of;. great secret of the purpose behind
boost United States -Jolley. . . :::.? AIFLD's education pro,grarinne,- ancL.:. 'these "social programmes." They are
It is not surprising, therefore, that . ? almost 4,000 graduated long-term::: meant, he says, to strengthen trade
from the very start AIFLD has been ,..? 'courses., Nearly all of the graduates,:.! unions led by AIFLD-trained men
. . financed not only by the AFL-CIO,';:. are now active in Latin-American :'.' and "increase union membership and
' ? but also by the U. S. Agency for. In- :. .?!, unions, and many hate managed to'.11., strengthen loyalty to the unions."
? ternational Development, a govern-'; secure leading posts. 1 - :..,. These. attempts to "tame" the
? merit organization, and by American.,, With this army at its command,.. .t:.; Latin-Atherican unions are meeting
Big Business. Contributors to the ::; AIFLD has been waging a secret anci,.:-.' with mounting resistance from the
Institute's funds, Doherty says, in-...1.. open war against militant labour,. '.workers. One evidence of that is the
elude more than GO U.S. business :..' organizations, in some countries also ,..;.? recenf. decision of the National La-
4:_..,...firms. .::... against ? progressive : governments.: ?'.. hour Convention of Uruguay to close
The names of big businessmen who'. : British Guiana has been one of its.: :? down the AIFLD school. The decision
make annual contributions to AIFLD ?::?targets. The trade union centre led ....: was taken after Doherty's men per?.
and sit on its Board of Trustees have''? by Richard Ishmael received a week-. ' .petrated a number of terrorist acts
appeared in the press. Among them .... lY handout of 530,000 from the AFL- against progressive unions and after
are millionaire Peter Grace, who has -,;: CIO treasury. Men brOught in by. the'?1 armed attacks on textile workers.
wide interests in industry, banking ..:. U.S. ?intrigued against Dr. Jagan's
-.-:.- Latterly the American press has
'and railways in the U.S. and Latin,.?? government, instigated strikes and j" drawn attention to the close' link
'America, and Charles Brinckerhoff, ...'' clashes .between workers and were !:. between the AFL-CIO Department
a director of the huge Anaconda::
:instrumental , in forcing 'Dr.. Jagan'S ... of International Affairs and the
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. copper concern. '''' resignation.. . .:': Central Intelligence Agency. Things
Writes Doherty: "There are many.:' ? ? AIFLD men are aCtive also in?!,... reached a stage when some promi-
'advantages to business. Involvement ,. 'Brazil. ? Graduates of its training.,. neat union leaders, notably Walter'..;'...
In AIFLD. It serves as a good exam-'': school were able to. capture .the:;" Reuther, Joseph Curran and Jacob
plc to Latin-American trade union- .'1' leadership of the trade unions im-,.:,: Potofsky, refused to approve AIFLD ,?
ists of responsibility rather than ..1'. mediately after the overthrow of the .'.'.l.:activities at the August meeting of
implacable hostility among opposed ,.' Goulart government. ' the AFL-CIO Executive Council.
economic interest groups.,.. Business.l..:i? The institute and 'its local ope-',i But most Council members, and of l..
support for AIFLD also, shows.....-ratives exploit fhe diffiOult living con- ????!; course George Meany, stood up for '
.. Latin-American workers that not all:'":ditions in Latin America. ? Doherty ,,this branch of the CIA camouflaged
'U.S. businessmen have ? horns." ..says AIFLD has allocated large'sums:-4'.::-as a "democratic institution," with
1-Distrust of the U.S. In general, caused ::.?:: for housing 'development in ?Mexico,',. ;the result that .AIFLD continues its
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:by hostility to u.S. firms, hurts .U,Si;.?,?i'llonduras,.. '..Peru,... :the 't? Dominican subversive work . In 'the ',Latin.:
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labour as 'well, AS , business,-. and ? :**Ileptibile? .Uruguay.and several more ,?????rAmerican labour moVement.'?? '
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/01/17 : 6IX-RDP73-00475R000100820011-5