CHARGE OF CIA AID TO LATIN LABOR SCHOOL IS DENIED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000100820005-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 17, 2014
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 31, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/01/17: CIA-RDP73-00475R000100820005-2
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Dy the Associated Press
The head of ?a labor school ,
program operated ?throughout
South America by the United
? States denies getting financial ?
,aid from the Central Intelligence
Agency.
?- This -allegation has been made
i/by Victor Reu:ne.r, international
director of the United . Auto
'Workers Union and brother to
UAW, President Walter Reuther
as well as in published reports.
1,/ William C. Doherty, the
program director, said the
charges are ?"not only phony" ?
: but he thinks some people made
them believing the association
? with the CIA would hurt the
'school.
Doherty, app.e?aring yesterday
on a radio program sponsored
. by the AFL-CIO, also told how ?
, Communists harass the school, .
which ?trains Latin-American '
union leaders in the techniques
of the U.S. trade union move-
ment.
? The school is formally known
as the American Institute for
/ Free Labor Development and is
financed by U.S. labor and
. business and the Agency for
? International Development. ?
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/01/17: CIA-RDP73-00475R000100820005-2