MEANY'S ENDLESS COLD WAR

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A major consideration in AFL-CIO President George he'll;`''look into it." His son-in-
Meany's accommodation to the Nixon Administration un- law's statement is the first refer-
doubtedly is the desire to insure the flown of about S11 mil- ence to it since.
lion annually to finance the army of AFL-CIO operatives AFL-CIO Conferences on inter-
abroad working in concert with the Central Intelligence national affait?s are very rare. The
Agency. field is limited strictly to the in-
It is with that objective in view director of AIFID, who has often ner sanctums of the AFL-CIO. The
apparently that the AFL-CIO's boasted of some 200 operatives last conference of the AFL-CIO
/ International Affairs Department roaming in Latin American lands on the topic was in the same Com-
of which "Labor's CIA Man." Jay and that some of the trainees in modore Hotel. April 19-20, 1960,
Lovestone, is director, arranged the AIFLD school here had an with Henry Kissinger the main
the recent conference in New important part in a coup that over- speaker on Lovestone's list. That
York on the topic, "Labor and In- threw a liberal regime in Brazil. conference was called to pressure
ternational Affairs in the Seven- Irving Brown, who has never de- President Eisenhower against
ties." nied a former CIA top official's coming to terms with the Soviet
The major thrust of the gather- disclosure he (Brown) was an Union at a summit conference
ing, including some 200 staff peo- agent, reported as director of the scheduled in Paris in May 16 that
ple of several unions and the gen- Afro-American Labor Council on year. To the delight of ]Many
eral office, was to emphasize to that outfit's very limited success and friends, the shooting down of /
the Nixon Administration that the in Africa. Morris Paladino. direc- Gary Powers in a CIA U-2 plane
only reliable "labor" handmaiden tor of the Asian-American Free (built by Lockeed) he flew over
to its imperialist program abroad Labor Institute, told of his feeble Soviet territory as the conference
is the AFL-CIO's three-part "in- efforts to find a base in Asia be- was to begin, torpedoed the meet-
ternational." The International yond Saigon and Taiwan. ing.
Confederation of Free Trade Un- As Rick Nagin who covered The main consideration in the
ions, set up mostly: with U.S. the conference reported in the Meany crowd's calculations is to
money and CIA organization in Dec. 1, Daily World, Lee boasted maintain the relationship with the
1949 (from which the AFL-CIO that the three operations get i11,- Administration on global affairs
withdrew), is not an effective 500,000 every year from AID and the flow of dollars. For that
anti-Communist force; some of "notwithstanding charges from reason Meany obliged with the
its major affiliates have actually George Morris and liberal news- "neutrality" policy in the elec-
developed friendly relations with papermen that this is CIA money." tions. He has since indicated a
the Soviet trade unions. I certainly never expected that willingness to accommodate the
That was the direction of the my writings could stop such funds Federation to the Nixon program.
main report to the conference de- for the AFL-CIO. His group returned to the Nixon
livered by Ernest Lee. Meany's Perhaps Lee figures that calling committee for a drive to raise
son-in-law, who, as assistant di- attention to charges from this labor productivity. This is taken
rector, is being groomed to take source would be a strong argu- as an indication that the Meany
over the aging Lovestone's post. ment for continuance of the funds. group may also return to the Wage
Lee, in effect. conceded that the In any case. Lee is late in taking Board.
AFL-CIO's cold war policy was a note of those charges. I noted and The December 4 AFL-CIO News
failure. detailed the relation between the carries an editorial, a reprint of a
The AFL-CIO's concern over CIA and the AFL-CIO's interna- speech of Lane Kirkland, the see-
the financing of its "international" tional affairs as far back as 1961 retary-treasurer, declaring that
is understandable in view of grow- in my book "American Labor, the AFL-CIO is opposed to "all
ing opposition to it. In 1970, Sell- Which Way, in my book "CIA, quotas" - meaning government
ate Foreign Relations Committee and American Labor, The Sub- guidelines towards increase of
chairman J.W. Fulbright had version of the AFL-CIO's Foreign minority workers in building and
Meany over the coals on the gnat- Policy," published in 1967 (which, other crafts - and against "quo-
ter. Fulbright disclosed that since incidental!}', was reprinted in tax" in representation in political
1962, when the American Institute about 10 countries) and in my parties or in the trade unions,
for Free Labor Development "Rebellion in the Unions," pub- meaning, of course, opposition to
(AIFID) was formed by Meany's lisped in 1971, not to speak of the any deliberate effort to break
group jointly with corporations scores of columns on the subject. through the all-white domination
doing business in Latin America. But the chages didn't only come in union leadership of most un-
$44 million of Administration for from Inc. I "simply detailed the ions or in the Democratic Party.
International Development money numerous souccs, including Tom Most workers pay no attention
was pumped into it. In the the two Braden, who, as a CIA official, to what top union leaders do on
subsequent years about $22 mil- originated the "labor" program international deals. But those
lion more was dished out. in 19:0. He disclosed the shocking deals are very costly to workers
? relationship. in terms of wages, production
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relations, Mcany told newsmen
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Congress mist act!
U.S. BOMBERS UNLOOSED on Tuesday night the
most violent attack on Hanoi since the beginning of the
war. Hundreds of people were slain in the densely populat-
ed center and suburbs of Hanoi, and in other cities. -
Encouraged by Nixon's murderous bombing of North
Vietnam. Israeli war planes. after a lapse of five weeks.
bombed the Syrian villages of Deiel and Seda yesterday.
The Israeli war raids underscored Gus Hall's press confer-
ence statement that "all world relations will sharpen if
the war does not end."
The renewing of the bombing makes it necessary to
ask in each Congressional district: what has our Congress-
man or Congresswoman done to cut short this monstrous
killing?
Today, and tomorrow, and each day until your repre-
sentative returns to Washington are days for delegations to
visit them at home. insisting that they act now against the
slaughter.
The next step is to make sure that your representative
is not alone in Washington on January 3 and 4: that deter-
mined delegations from the district are at his desk. all the
time, insisting that he take every action necessary to end
the war.
The best assurance of action is for the trade unions.
shop workers. rank and file unionists to be included in the
delegations to Washington. Start a collection now in your
shop to send one or more delegates to Washington for Jan.
3 and 4.
It is one thing - and a very important act - for a un-
ion's national officers to protest to Nixon and to insist that
Congress act. It is another thing. and even more important.
when the local unions, their officials or rank and file mem-
bers. shop workers right off the job, put the power of the
workers visibly behind the peace actions of the top union
officials. And if the leaders don't act, it is doubly important
for the rank and file to do so. That is the more necessary
since George :Mleany. AFL-CIO president, and Jay Love-
stone. the CIA's top agent in labor's ranks, and. some. other
unworthies are on the side of the Mad Bomber as he orders
the destruction of Vietnam.
The most effective answer to the Mad Bomber and
his servile tools in labor's ranks is for the workers to con-
duct five-minute stoppages, so that the rank and file can
send a message to Nixon demanding that he "Sign Now!"
the 9-point peace agreement he okayed in October, and
other messages to the House Speaker and the Senate pres-
ident. demanding that the horror end.
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MEANY: The Unchallenged Strong
Man of American Labor. 13y Joseph C.
Goidden. Atheneum Publishers. 504 pp,
$12.95.
Mr. N'idick, currently professor of indus-
trial relations in the Graduate School of
Business at Columbia University, his been
The Nation's labor correspondent since
1955. His most recent book is Detroit:
City of Race and Class Violence (Quad-
rangle Books).
pro- or anti-labor voting records, as
Meany's relations with many politicians
testify. Rather the explanation lies in
Meany's character.
To begin with, there is an ar-
rogance in the man, visible at press
conferences and in his conduct of the
AFL-CIG conventions, which is rellected
in this book by the disdain with which
he views mere mortals. And they in-
clude a Who's Who of American poli-
tics. Meany's sting has among its victims
Arthur Goldberg, Edmund Muskie,
book is a gold mine of insights
his
,
, Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson,
irony, and original source material a
George ivYcany, the trade unions and prank Fitzsinunons, Walter Reuther,
important American public figures. No L Mmes I-ooo%evelJtnhn L. Lewis, F es and
post-mortem account of the 1972 elec. ".rs. , as well as President
lions will be complete without a read- .(,flew Iand John Connally. Spiro
ing of this fascinating, full-scale bi_ ~ra:es no mention and George
ography of the controversial president of icGovern barely a word, although
the AFL-CIO. Its publication is a major i eany spoke of him as a possible, ac-
accomplishment for the author, its tim- ?ce with the cthe pres at the breakfast he
ing a likely source of embarrassment for 111-1 had with press late in 1971, when
its subject, George Meany and other Wallace acc from John Lindon and George
i.
union leaders. m consideration.
The intention of this biography was one exception. Meany admired and was
otherwise. Written with the full Co- proud of John F. Kenncdv, the first
operation of George Mcany, its thrust Irish Catholic President of the United
was to portray him as a militant labor States, regarding him almost with de-
leader climaxing a fifty-year career in tho votion. This does not, of course, extend
trade union hierarchy with a glorious to the other Kennedys. President l en-
finale: the defeat of the anti-labor oc- nedy knew how to handle Meany. It
cupant of the White House. "Nixon! was always "Mr. Meany," never
Labor has detested this than and fought "George. ' Gould; n observes, "Inteliec
this man for more than two decades, and tualls' Kennedy felt more rapport with
now here he is in the White House. A V-iWalter Reuther, but he tool: care to
nian with absolutely nothing in common maintain friendly relations with both
with George Meant', except niutaal nien. For Reuther, a long hour on the
enmity," So ran the "party line" in na- beach with Jacqueline at Hyannis Port,
tional A}_-CIO he adquarrers early in
h
n. The people he despised took over.
Hence the bile of his remarks against
Senator McGovern at the Steelworkers'
convention. Now there was a greater
hate than the big hate.
Is George Meany that vengeful? In a
footnote about his own research for
this book, Gotilden writes revealingly,
"The presidents of some large anions,
supposedly fearless labor leaders, are
frightened silly at offending Meany, and
would talk about him only in general-
ities, or off the record." When in. 1942
Franklin Roosevelt, with Sidney Hill-
man's assistance, blocked a merger of
the AFL and the CIO proposed by
John L. Lewis, and which involved
having George Mcany as president of
the new organization, Meant' did not
forgive and forget. In 1944 he voted for
Dev,'cy.
A note on his feelings toward Walter
Reuther, and the atmosphere in the
AFL-CIO headquarters, provides further
insight. "Meany slowly became an iso-
lated man-so scornful of critics that
only rarely would anyone in his inner
circles differ with him, upon pain of
being denounced as a 'I?eutherite,'
Nelson Cruikshank, who left the AFL-
CIO to run a Medicare lobby financed
by labor, was distressed at what he saw.
George found himself surrounded by
yes nien, by guy's who thought the way
to get along with him was to toady to
him. 'File), were wrong; they should
have argued with him, for he respects
people who do. But by the early 1960s
all lie heard was people who agreed
with him, and told him what they
thought he wanted to hear."
t
e week aitcr her husbands nonuna-
1972, when Goulden was finishing his tion; for 1,ican)', an advance briefing
book, Thc reasons are outlined in rich Obsessive anti-communism is in-
btail in two chapter; about the ch on the Cuban missile crisis, so that the other major factor coloring all of
voice of oreaniycd labor would support Meitny's politics, at home and abroad.
monious dispute between hfeany and the adrninistr:ttion,"
the President over incomes policy, With Aieany desrribcd himself as "second
W}icn Geors;c McGovern received the only to Richard Nixon, in the 1950s, as
everything on the record. 1972 ,
1972 Democratic I arty nomination, the most rabid anti-Com.niunist in Anier-
For good measure, in that period of Meany's fury was unbounded, In 1965, ica." (In ilia epoch of :lcCarthykill,
time Geor(te Meanv did not simply dis- lie had been wined and dined and flat- that's saying a mouthful. For v:)1a1 vcr
agree with President Nixon, lie, told tered by the most important party poll- reason, (Gulden did not explore
Goulden quite often that lie detested ticians. Ile felt like a king ni: ker, anc! Ateany's viev.'s on Sen. Joseph McCar-
Nixon as intensely as he did any man r?e:,erved his scorn for the kid; outside, thy, a re!,rctta l'le omission.) hno?.ving
who had ever been in public life in v.hose heads were broken in the Chi- these vie%is of ';fe:tnv made it predictable
the United States. 'fhc question arises: sago bust. linked, 1\fc:inv praised the that he would c1o everythirilg in Iris
What nt:inner of mall could flip clop (rent conduct of th',Chicano police. Ill 1912 power to L1C14'at Senator McGovern.
101;11 war a ;ainst to "neutrality for ---and the details are in tlti?, tgoo
k--- Nixon % lanl.,lide, for ?,lc.,ny, is a dc?-
Nixon," even oil tite expcn.e of widening Ale.iny laid only one p;sie U;uto- feat for "neo-iNol,ttiL 1,11 ,111 and perhaps
the split anion,t unions'? 'kite boot: fur- cr;ttic Party choice, Sen. henry Jacl:',on. a hood onion (or destroyin. any peace
coshes the, hosts for in C%planatiou--- '111
s w to rvi
and it had Aptpira~vledifor,IRelteease MOO 0 11.tldi, OP 0 017 PI l t?1 ~~ ~Qt~1 dOt~ "j. some of the elder imperialist
67 revelations that the AI''L-CIO's Haiti, the Dominican Republic, 1 a and
s, notably I'r,,~ ; i,_e and 13ri-
-ihtcrnational affairs department Paraguay and tethers in that cat x
fain t'
~^ forced to.raco;ni~.
the New York labor'rnovernent, this "labor" committee that its Who are the people engaged
as well as Emil t.iazes scene- leafiest even accused the Corn
tary-treasurer' of the United Alt ,. ,`,l in this dirty business? There
monist 1 arty and the Trotskyite are among fleas some d ul )cd
tomobil:i %'; orkers, and Mayor 1
Socialist tiv ,or..ers Party of youths who may honestly think
John Lindsay. "joining V-1}to labor fa'?:ers lit_e may
It was, as the P',layor o`)servcd, ? that the Measure of "revolution-
, to build tail anti-
alt advanced step because Nixon t i.tn 0 'r'6iT1271t? (that) can 1St]]" is how VlOlders. you (}C-
, IIOLIi1C2 11111011 1caderS But in
brought together a substantial only act as a grass roots silp
labor group in action for peace, terns of Pider t 1f these (sects
Port movement Ion tine liberal the rhngl ens of these se
a refutation of the claim of the " v ge-
De.lnocrat.s. ,4 J
,,
George Meanys that they speak There are in the U.S. at least ,, me cIf my cnc tine,~,
for.labor in support of the Indp- meat from very rkn< fon +ry i
a half c; ,.en Trotskyite orgam- so
china war. Laces 3 Cli?firs J21' 2;?ei1Ci.CS,
o nations. They have a cut-threat olive,M,;31, CIA or any of the
It was a' united front bringing l p any relatioia`iip among tlicill_ ves
together organizations that may Otl:er iilStrt;rIei! s for dig r itp-
over. various issu?S. 13-A e1 ei] tif?] a;_ l ,(ltvr?>^;1 n tie pro
differ in son]e respects but the S` IP, from which they have
were united On the bl'Oad gressi;e sectors Of the Viori-ingy
issues split off, isn't "revolutioliary" c - ?
Of file Moratorium Day meeting. h ,fel ] because it has C+,?S:i lnov~;'_ICnt.
iloa;ll fu r t,
X . been involved recently in pro- SShai else can you say of
'I'0 the amazement of limsly. gro"ms ti at n--.,-AC t1:C.'3C who
peace whited fiollts. ; 11-1 ov fornar(i t`*.' #i' major tt r-
soli]t individuals . handed out
leaflets viciously Those able. to Observe the ac- g } y
et? i'tli:at else Can 'Ott.Sa of
, 'ly - denouncing ,
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tt1 rally, Singling out especial Col]]mittee" and the "Workers 11!.3 i ? to ctt st. l^
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t to'e CIA's covert operatiun5 ilietrber of the. IIj 63'
Uu ,, it ly as "care~.r a ts," tv'it
WAS111\'GT'0\' Sept. 2:i - A
t.-said: "If the agency is to 6 por c. riot identified but ali-; a states laidle?ay 1"t ss-ten
coifideatnil repull being cir? effective, it ss'i!1 }Dave to nla'e ilaic,l.ly Bernstein, TO Steel- cl:!.;,;,cul npnt iO a smoa e
led ri 1'rs':u on and Iins- uec. of private iii II C!ti015 on all cJ~ \ r !G ~i l f E /L>k s 3' ~5: it ~~ l : 3 iJ r r
black persons but of policy matt
c) "> [ r.7;j ;1.:`7 , -1 F (=,'j tti f To this cooI'dlllated "socialist"
c>?ri 6 d r b' i) v d lr t L ;r (L camp should be added the alli-
The extent of the-Socialist Party's S:' in r 4l3 ward ance with the Zionists in the U.S.,
to win acceptance by the top b"reavcr'ley of th'~ l`~l~'S.- ell,h Israel pictured as the "moci
cl socialist state.
C.IJ, can ba judged by its app oval of the position, of tic Fe%v of the men who oriented
.Mealy group in the AFL-CIO on the I11docllina wa?r. rI'ili a the Social Democratic elements
was well dernoiistratad at the May 25-27 co"i1forei-,ce of towards rabid anti-Sovietism and
the Sccialist International (S( in 1-1, lsinki). red baiting since World War I.
Even that body, dominated by
rightwing socialists who head
capitalist governments or have a
part in coalitions, rejected the
out-and-out pro-Meany pro-Nixon
line in the U.S. Socialist Party's
position.
A compromise position was ac-
cepted which included a warning
that the Indochina position cannot
be settled by military means, and
that a (late should be set for
withdrawal, although there was
still an' effort to equate the U.S.
aggressors with North Vietnam anc
.the liberation forces. Delegates of
some of the major socialist part-
ies attacked the U.S. delegates
position. Canada's delegate, D.
Lewis, for example, said, "A so-
cialist who-does not see Ameri-
ca's aggression has no right to
call himself a socialist."
The SP played a similar ultr;1-
.rightist role ' when the Middle
East situation came up. This is
evident even from the report on
the conference by Paul Feldman,
delegate of the SP in the July 30
issue of '"New America," paper
of the SP.
The U.S. delegates were' the
most loud-mouthed backers of
Golda Meir, who represented "so-
cialist" Israel. So blatant was
their position that Vaino Leskinen;
the Social Democratic minister of
for i t affairs of l inland upbraid-
ed Friedman for his rabid anti-
Conlriltnlisill and "termed the U.S.
delegate 'stupid.' " To the dis-
pleasure of the U,S. "socialists,"
the 81 resolution, also a compro-
mise, was considerably subdued
in comparison to the earlier stand.
Thus we see the. SP trying to
play the same role in the SI that
Meany and Co. had been playing
in the International Confederation
of Free Trade Union until they
eventually gave up and quit that
body.
of the Vietnam policy. days, are still alive. But their
So the SP sent a delegation of offspring, including several rene-
its Young People's Socialist Lea- gados from Cotruntutisn'r and d -
gue to look the Senator over and serters from socialist lands, make
ask hit, questions. They came up the staff and full timers of the
away convinced that "Jackson is present SP orbit.
the one. Their links to the AFL-CIO bu-
A column of Evans and Novack reaucracy take various forms.
Bustin writes an article in llar-
(N.Y. Post, Aug. 13), noted "The ,Pre 1~laga:~in'c defcr,dir,g the AFL-
heart of the Young Socialists now
d
hi
h
arges o
CIO lea
ers
p aJ ' c
found him to be almost a "social- racism. The AFL- C30 reprints it
ist." : - and distributes it widely. Vihen
Josh Muravchik, YPSI, president Meany and Co. were under sharp
expressed delight with Jackson criticism for their attitude to
because lie was "not falling into wards youth and the campus anti-
the reo-isolationist bag on foreign war movement, Tom Kahn, YPSL
member and executive director
in SP language
meaning
"
olic
,
,
p
y
that Jackson would continue the of LID came throw h with in arts:
"American world leadership" po cle about an alleged f ontash
hey. among the youth in support of the
is the supply by right :z-in; in the AFL-CIO Fede
the SP of some of its younger re rationist.
cruits for the AFL-CIO's services The Jewish Labor Committee is
abroad under the government-fi- especially appreciated in Meany's
nanced, CIA-oriented programs office because it defends his
Latin Atheiica, Asia ancGAfricrc. crowd against charges of racism.
What does it all add no to? John P. Roche, former YPSL
The SP, long dormant, is being member, has a weekly column in
reactivated as the core of a "so- the AFL-CIO News. The SP's
? paper reprints those columns.
ctallst orbit now controlled by Now that SP leadership has
the rigiltrr:ing Social Democratic been cleansed of pro-peace and
elements who for many years Thomas followers, then like Shan-
were independent of the SP when ker, Rustin and Roche write in
led by Norman Thomas. They "New America" under by-lines.
called themselves the Social De- In past years, the SP was not
mocratic Federation. They are welcome to the top bureaucracy
mainly the group that depended of the AFL and later AFL-CIO.
on finance from David Dubiusky The very term "socialist" rubbed
when he headed the International this gentry the wrong way. But
Ladies Garment Workers Union today, when progressive winds
and o;?, h- I srcccssor. They includ- -
ed the Jewish Labor Committee are strong.. and p llec in acade-
mic and other intellectual fields
headed by Dubinsky. The Jewish are cold to the lc aclers of most
Daily Fort, ard, right ht-wing organ unions, the top labor bureaucracy
for generations; the League for is very much in need of a "Iibe-
Industrial Democracy; the Work- rat" cover. For-that reason, on a
ers Defense League; Albert Shan- number of occasions, the AFL-CIO
ker of the Teachers Union and
some of his staff; .and the A. Phi- I=ederationist printed articles on
the kind of socialists here and
lip Randolph Institute, of which abroad who are "acceptable."
Bayard. Rustin is director, finatlc-
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.IN OUR DAYS, the role of propaganda and in- agent inffirencing political affairs abroad is be
telligence as major foreign policy instruments coming a central figure," wrote Bergh, a West
of the imperialist states is growing all the time. German expert on intelligence.3
B. Alurty, an American professor, emphasises In this way, a kind of all organisationally
that the functions of camouflaged ideological independent sphere c` so-called - unofficial
coercion and -subversion of world law and order propaganda is forming, n the opinion of West-
are being carried out by means of -propaganda.' ern specialists and politicians, this type of pro-
In effect, Marty recognises the close connection paganda has a number of advantages over the
between propaganda and intelligence '
f
. The intelligence agencies do not, of course,
conduct their propaganda activity openly, but
they possess the necessary means to promote
id
l
eo
ogical subinbdd
verso aroa an render it
more effective. A network of secret agents and
d
pai
informers, bribed newspaper and magazine
publishers, corrupt politicians and adventurers,
to whom the intelligence service assigns the role
of "charity workers" and "educationalists"---
alI this makes it possible for the intelligence
service to exercise anonymous control in spread-
ing propaganda and disinformation.
Richard Helms, the head of the. CIA, stated
in a memorandum to the government that the
, psychological warfare must be placed fully tinder
the control of the US intelligence service. Psy-
chological warfare, he'stressed, is' a sphere of
government activity which must be dealt with
/ only by professionals acting in secret. An Anre-
J rican professor, Ransom, who for a long time
took part in the military research programme of
Harvard University, holds that the role of the
CIA in undertaking political and psychological
subversive acts has increased so much. that it
has become a major instrument of political war,
an el has far exceeded the functions determined
by the law.on jhe establishment of the ;UTA.2
Some bourgeois scholars call this process
`.`politicising" the intelligence service. "The
See A. Musty, Propaganda and World Public Order.
. fhe Legal Regulation of the Ideological Instrument of
Coercion, New Haven-London, 1968, p. 11.
,See H.? Ransom, The Intelligence Establislunenf,
Cambridge (Ma*s.), 1970, pp. 94, 239,
o
ficial one. A report "The American Ima
Abroad", submitted to the American Senate T ii-,
1968 by the Republican Coordinating Gout-
rilittec, stresses that the material being spread by
non-governmen(al agencies is accepted in
foreign countries with greater trust than that put
out by the government. In view of this, the corn-
mit'tee recommended the government to en-
courage by every possible means the American
organisations issuing information and
ro-
p
paganda material for foreign countries.
A vivid example of the kind of unofficial pro-
paganda directed against the USSR and other
socialist countries is the activity of Radio Free
Europe, officially an independent organisation,
but virtually controlled by the US authorities.
Speaking in the US Senate in January 1971,
Senator C. Case said that 1,642 employees of
Free Europe and about 1,500 professional work-
ers of the Liberty radio station were maintain-
ed by the CIA. These subversive centres make
use of 49 transmitters bought with CIA money.
The American intelligence service expends an-
nually over $30 million on these radio saboteurs.
Hundreds of millions of dollars have travelled
from the US state treasury to the accounts of
Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty for over
20 years. As for the assertions that they are
financed from "private. donations", it transpires
that these -donations do not even cover advert is-
lug expenses on. appeals to the American public
for money.
The US intelligence agencies secretly subsi-,
3 H. 13ergh, A13C der Spione, Pfaffenhofcn, 1965, p. 83.
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La icj__ti America in the -1970S
by Cary i/~lc;oisl
(Holt, Rinehart and Winston; $6.95)
Gary MacEoin assembles the necessary
facts to prove that revolution next door
is inevitable.. The Alliance for Progress
has failed, and the reforms agreed on at
Punta del Este have been blocked when-
ever . anyone has tried to implement
them, The disturbing new element in
this book lies in the plentiful evidence
that the United States may already be
so enmeshed in Latin American econo-
mies as to find difficulty in disengage-
ment when the firing begins. IN situa-
tion is comparable to the early years in
\-'ictnam when the extent of our in-
volvement was large but hard to see.
Once again the role of imperialism is
the cause. The Savedish authority, Gun-
nar Nlyrdel, is quoted as roughly esti-
mating that "directly or indirectly
through joint enterprises or other ar-
rangements, United States corporations
not. control or. decisively influence be-
tween 70 and 90 percent of the raw ma-
terial resources of Latin America, and
probably more than half of its modern
manufacturing industry, banking, coin=
coerce, and foreign trade, as well as
much of its public utilities." That high
percentage of big business involvement
and control means there are innumer-
able American families who will find
disassociation from engagement in Latin
America economically painful.
Our imperialism is also extending its
neo-colonial tentacles into the social
and political life. Latin American armed
forces have been assimilated into the
United States defense system' under
which participating countries receive
advanced weapons and integrated train-
ing. Instruction includes ideology'. The
same old ruse of fighting ''communist
subversion" is being used to maintain
the hemispheric status quo. And Latin
American labor syndicates have been
emasculated. Their leaders have been
trained in our brand of trade unionism
so expertly that they can easily be ma-
l,t d ~f~l,ecl~~~{{cif
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App t . , `tilts Lute for Free Labor Development -to
corrupt and ' control popular move-
me nts."
According to MacEoin, we have also
invaded I_atin American culture, finding
it beneficial to integrate Latin American
higher education with our own machin-
cry for establishing academic standing.
We can then employ the properly
trained nationals in our international
industri4!l complex, or drain off the
brains where shortages exist at home.
Also we have monopolized the mass
media so that they may play their part
in cultural colonialism; our insistent
advertiCing sells both our products and
our dollar-sign notions of human needs.
The penetration thus appears to he
complete. But v,-hat is happening? In
Panama, Peru and Bolivia, power has
.been seized by the armies "to protect
the people from the exploitation of lo-
cal oligarchs and their international
business allies." Chile has gone the
saute road by means of a democratic
election. All through the continent, sup-
pressed nationalist elements are taking
heart. Even .though it may be a long
wait, they are holding out to regain the
control of their destinies. Mactoin sees
a. parallel here with the pacification pro-
gram in Indochina: "the more total the
penetration the more negative the. re-
suits. Political scientists must, in the
future, cite this experience as no less
significant than that of the Vietnam
war when they discuss the limits of
power of the great."
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G C01- , MW'a-'3`J the late Matthew Well and Dav-
?"?~' Dubin sky. This was before
v,7 o o ' Dien Bien Phu, where the French
11 Cl .3C [f C[r cc V 0 HflI ti'10, tl colonialists rnet disastrous de
feat at 1116 hands of the Vet-
`i'he whole country is talking about how the people names-, headed by I10 Chi r-:iinh.
of the'-United States were swindled into the Indochina In those days, the AFL's F ede-
war-the greatest mass deception since Hitler-launched rationist frequently carried art-
-tile telex by hrov,,n in, wvhler his
the Nazi march toward world leaaership: But as the main target was the French gov-
AFL-CIO building facing Washington's Lafayette Park, crnnlerit on the ground that it
directly opposite the White. House, the occupant's are. Vras inept and not an effective
silent. - cation Workers of America an (1, force against ''Conhlnunism'' i11
. urgency
George Meany's people are harped on the y
of course, the International Aofs a ia U.S Il.e ta !;cover of the ob.
glum. They blow we are nearing Ladies Garment Workers Uon
judgement day. From what the Operating out_ 'of Tokyo was
whose leaders originally used Richard Deverall; the AFL's
New York Times has already I,ovestone to head their inter
gent, w~ io wrote in a
printed and the avalanche of ma-
national affairs. East Asia agent,
now appearing in the press, similar vein in the Federationist.
I,ec< ll the article by Thomas
in defin nee of Attorney General Ili-den (now a N.Y. Post col nn - This Loves.ono-t,?cany Hue for
John Mitchell, people are begin- . a U.S. takeover in Indochina was
nist) in the May 21 1967 Satur-
iYing to find out who belongs on the policy of the Air L's burenue-
day Evening Post (note defunct), racy lot:; before it became nck-
the war criminals' list. And entitled, I'm Glad the CIA is noevledgcd Slate Dehe,-u-nent
when that list is completed, Imml oral." Ile told how, as as- t `
George Meany and some of his policy. In the AFL-CIO 1935 con-
cronies, will be, or should be, sista Dulles, nt to CIA director Allow veution in San h'rancisco, this
arranged a
network he of (Braden)
ls aandrraphony line was made "palatable" to
on it. .
We must not forget that the foundations" to finance people some opponents of the policy,
AFL-CIO bureaucracy had a very and trimmed up as solidarity"
in unions, student ann cultural
important part in the gigantic with trade unions in Saigon.
conspiracy ' ? 01'gaT11""/.at10nS to pl'OV1Cl'.'. cover the details of which Two years ago the dominant are only now coming out. for CIA's dirty work. - Meany-Loveston'e ' clique split
Those of us who have been Braden told how in tike 19 0 53 from the International Confed-
saying-and were maligned and oration of Free. Trade Unions
persecuted} for saying it-that ~a period, he personally handed out CIA money to I they were instrumental in found
rvine Brown,
mi]ital?}-inc,Tlstrial coJltplex run- ~ ing in 1949, because even the
ping the government engineered Lovestone's assistant, mentioning right wing leaders of unions
the conspiracy and deceived the $15000 in one one wacasete,rfitoont pay ganoff abroad refused to align thern-'1211 .people, have always pointed a Stri selves with the 1`rlcany-Lovcstonc-
finger at those -labor' leaders sters in France who operated CIA operations.
who had a hand in it. Their part the guise of "pro-American an-
As recently as February, the
,?
in the plot was clear even 1)CfOre ti-Communists." AFL-CIO executive council vient
the first U.S. "advisers," began Ile descrhbecl how Lovestone ~ oil record supporting expansion
to arrive in Iictirani. was given about $2 million a of the Indochina operation to
In 1930. the peoule learned of year to spend for CIA labor Laos. The ILGWU's convention
operations and hoer he obtained
s how the Central Intelligence 1SSUraIJCe from. the 1e11d~rs of in Harm last mont}l, deaf to the
Agency operated a chain of 1` rising cry for peace again restat-
phony foundations through which the AFL that it ias money spent ed its extreme hawk position.
it financed student, labor, col- effectively. - Ironically, these "labor" hawks
rural and other groups as covers In that period even the auto are even to the right of soma of
for its global operations. The union's leaders accepted CIA the Southerners like Senators
news media then put the spot- money for some operations in B. h veret' Jordan (D-NC) and
light on the International. Affairs Europe. Walter Reuther later Merman Talrnadge (D-Ga), who
Depart nent of the AFL'-CIO, run claimed that only once did his shifted position for immediate
,by George Meany and its direc- group take ti 50,000 from Braden,' withdrawal from Vietnam
tor Jay Lovestone. A number of So the record is quite clear on- The part some union leaders
unions were especially distin-, the cozy relations that existed played in hoodwinking us into
,~?guisheci in CIA operations under between the controlling top bu-, the disastrous Indochina war
Jay t,ovestone's department. reaucracy of labor and the State shames us before the world.
Among those given prominence Department and CIA; at bast We must not forget. The guilty
were leaders of the American since 1950. And it. bras all "justi- must be exposed. Their treach-
Newspaper Guild; the Retail fled" in the name of anti-Com-' cry must be bared. They are
Clerks International Association; 111UIh1SI11. not labor leaders. They are the
former leaders of the Oil, Chenl_ In those years Irving Brown tools of imperialism in labor's
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