AFL-CIO BOARD AVOWS, 23-2, THE CIA HAS NOT INFILTRATED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000100820012-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 17, 2014
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: August 28, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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' .AUGUST 280. 19
WORKER r
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STAT
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(i.:The _CM. Hqs. Not.:.Infilgrated '? ..,....1
,
. (Special to The Worker) ? ......weren't there any other sotirce3::
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r. ..
...::*61- criticism?"- ' . ' '? ? ? ....;
'(?: CHICAGO ? ---- The AFL-CIO':..,' "Oh there' were 'some criti-."..
executive. 'council meeting here-,' -seisms in The Nation* and some '?
:
....other publications," Meany..re?,!?
by a .vote of 23' to 2, approved
1 the -activities of its- foreign af- .......plied.
He was asked if there were
! . . ? -..
'fairs network which operates as ?
specific charges that CIA agents ,''.
1 the American Institute- for -Free ,- ?
? ?::,had infiltrated the AFL-1CIO's ?'
!? Labor Development.. . ? ?international department; "No, .,
'. George Meany, AFL-CIO pres.
i ::just ?that it was working for the.:
ddent, reported to the press that .i CIA," said Meany. .
'the executive council "rejects out ?- ? ."The- only specific. criticisa0
'iof hand the Campaign of vilifica- '.....was that the Food and Drink 4
i...ion directed against .it." ::Union was working with the CIA'..,
1,' In reply to 'newsmen Meany : in Panama and that this caused
I:said that Walter Reuther, pres- .: the International. Secretary of
!..ident of the United Auto Work-s ? the Food Union to close down its ,
ers, and Joseph Curran, president .Panama ? office. Joseph Heinle,
of the National Maritime Union, ??? (President of the Communica-i ?
',had voted against the resolution,. 'Aims Workers ' of. America) who,,:.
that Jacob Potofsky, president of ., 'made the lengthy report to the' ?
1;the Amalgamated Clothing Work-t..council meeting, and the Food':
- ers, h .ad ? abstained, and that.. union international secretary- in-'', ..
i three members of the council vestigated and reported that thel -
.: -
,were absent. ' ? - ? :- 'union had closed all 'its . Latid::
Nearly told the press that the ?American' Offices 'gas an economyJ .
,..
. ...move." ' t: .,, .
:4ipinion h?ad been expressed in. ,. .. ?
:? . ?, ?':
: the council that Victor Reuther, ? .f keany was the only., one of the7, ..
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1'head of the U.NW's international :?. 29-member 'council at the press.;
:effairs. department, had "made a' conference, affording ? the ? news.., '
!.4nen no; opportunity: to.:tet4h4,;i
mistake and shouldn't have made:
? the statement he did." ? He re-, ':' Oher...iide,of. the;COntrOversY.44
:. - ? ?.li.i,;,4:.???::..Z..o:atha.,,i,..,-,:.:.-sf..,,,..,....;,:a. i .
' Vused to say .Who had expressed?:!.' ? '.. .'. ? ....
t*that opinion.
? ' ?''
-; Victor ??Reuther had Charged r.
?..
.,' some months ago that Jay Love:
? ? !stone, head ,of the AFt-CIO's in:
,
..ternational 'operations,' was "in% -
' ?volvied":, with the Central In-
.,,telllgance Ageny.
Asked to- spell out the criti-i
cisms of the AIFLD, Meany said,:
i-"fomenting revolutions, running;
(training schools for company
' tunions and acting. as an- agent,
? .0f the State Departrhent and. the3
,CIA... . ? . .
?:-, "What prompted this fcriti*::
:cism?" he was asked.: ?:
r..-"Does the Daily Worker need.,
',,prompting- to 'villlfy. ?the. AFL.i
. replied. ;.. . . .
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/01/17: CIA-RDP73-00475R000100820012-4