RAMPARTS HITS MEANY ON DENIAL OF CIA LINKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000400580001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2014
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 3, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Ramparts magazine, continu-1
ing its criticism of the Central'
Intelligence Agency, disputes
President George Meany's ,
denial that the CIA financed the;
international operations of i
several AFL-CIO unions.
In its April issue, the maga-
inc said three unions have,
cooperated with the CIA?the'
American Newspaper Gui;ci
?(ANG), the Oil, Chemical ard
Atomic Workers Union (OCAW)
and the American Federation of
State, County and Municip
Employes (AFSCME).
Jay Lovestone, ? AFL-CIO
director of international affil.?:,
and Irving Brown, AFL-CIO
European representative, we e
named by Ramparts as organ-
ized labor's principal livison
officers with the CIA.
Strident Anti-Communist
"The American ?governrocnt
has contracted out both its open
and secret foreign relations with
workers and trade unions in
other countries to Meany and his
secretary .of ?state, Lovestone,"
said the magazine.
Lovestone is a former head of
the American Communist party
who became a stirdent anti-
Communist. Ramparts last
month touched off a major
controversy when it disclosed
that the CIA had provided
extensive but covert financi:.1
support to. the U.S. National
Student Association .and other
youth groups.
President Johnson last 'week
endorsed the report. of a Cabi-
net-level commission that called
dor the end of.covert financing of
, . .
?
"educational or private volun-'
tary organizations," but did not
specify whether labor organiza-
tions were to be included in that
policy.
Ramparts said Meany is
either "a liar or a fool" in
denying knowledge of CIA
financing of the several unions.
Ramparts said that "every;
month for many years" checks.
from CIA conduit agencies wer&
made out to 0. A. Knight,'
president of the OCAW, who;
endorsed them over to the
International Federation of
Petroleum and Chemical work- '
ers "to finance its 10 offices in
au i parts of the world." ? .
'Cut goff Operations'
But when A. L. Grospiron Was
elected president of the union in
1955, he "quietly cut off CIA ties
as soon as he took office, resist-
ing all pressures applied to him
to keep them intact," the maga-
zine added.
The . magazine .aid the
AFSCME also "cut off the CIA
operation" in 1965 after a new
president was elected.
No details were provided
concerning the ANG, but the
union recently announced that it
was dissolving its relationship
with five foundations alleged to
be CIA fronts which financed its
international program.
Ramparts also said "the CIA
has been involved in the work of
the American Institute for Free ?
Labor Development ? (AIFLD),
allegedly a private' organization
of union leaders and business.
men, operating ? extensively
throughout Latin America."
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