AFL-CIO COUNCIL DENOUNCES DEFAMING OF TRAINING UNIT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000100820013-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 17, 2014
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: August 23, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/01/17: CIA-RDP73-00475R000100820013-3
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(By a Sun Stag Correspondent)
; Chicago, Aug.' 22?The AFL-CIO
executive council today de-
nouriced accusations that the
American lbstitute of Free Labor
Development was infiltrated by
the Central Intelligence Agency
:and served as a frorit? for the De-
:partment of State.- .;
' This. ,".villifica1ion7 included, a
charge that the AIFLD was being
used to foment revolutions in La-
;tin America, George- Meany,
AFL-CIO president, revealed.
The institute, a training school
;for labor leaders from Latin
American nations', is jointly spon-
sored by the AFL-CIO, American
industry with Latin 'American
ties, and the Agency for Interna-
tional Development of the State
Department.
, 'Now located at Front. Royal,
;Va., it trains from 20 to 45 labor
leaders every,three months.
! An investigation of the institute
Was conducted by Joseph A
3eirne, a council Vice president
and president of the Communica-
tions Workers, of America,. after
'the. CIA infiltration charge was
hurled. by Victor Reuther, direc-
tor of the Department of Interne-
'!tional, Affairs of the United Auto
'Workers. ? ?
? Reuther,', 'brother. of .Walter
the institute was being used in.
this manner during a press inter-'
view at the UAW convention in'
Long Beach, Cal., last May. Sub-'
sequently, the AFL-CIO called for
an investigation to ,"clear the;
air."
Vote, Is 23 To 2
A lengthy report on the matter
was presented today by Beirne to
the council, which voted 23 to 2 to
accept the report. Walter Reuther
and Joseph Curran, president of.
the National Maritime Union, vot-
ed negatively.' Jakob Potofsky.,
president of the, Amalgamated
Clothing Workers, abstained.
Presumably Walter Reu I her' .
would not vote against his broth-7
er, regardless of how he might.
feel. Walter Reuther has not 'been
in agreement with the AFL-CIO's
foreign policy in a number of
areas. He and George Meany,,
AFIcCIO president, had a severe
falling-out in ante over a walkout;
at the International Labor-. Organ::
ization session in Geneva,!Switz-
erland.?
? Curran said he voted no be::
cause Peter Grace, president of,
W. R. Grace Zr Co., owners of the:
Grace Lines, was the manage.'
ment head of the institute and he,
often negotiated with the Grate
.,Iletither, UAW prederit, charged Line.. H.D.B.
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/01/17: CIA-RDP73-00475R000100820013-3