ESPIONAGE UNDER TRADE UNION COVER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000100820019-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 17, 2014
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: September 22, 1965
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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SEP 2 '196
STAT
3spioriage Under Trade:
mon Cover
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rp HIS is probably no longer a secret. i, ?
.-1-? At any rate, American newspa-.,.... '
. pers and magazines have long been ???? ' ?
writing of .the links between thel.,. ? : ' the World. Prejs.
AFL-CIO leaders and the US. Cen-;,.!.
tral Intelligence Agency. One of these'.?,,...
. ? ?
the group of anti-communists, whose ?
ideological leader is George Meany,
' 'and who include Irving Brown; ;
? 'Harry Goldberg, Andrew McClellan; :
, Ernest Lee, Serafino Romualdl and.
...William C. Doherty, Jr. ?
leaders, Jay Lovestone, the Chicago "father" of 'the H-bomb, he heads' '. The American labour bosses make
Tribune . wrote back in 1954, had
- - .. the Citizens Committee for a Free ?:5 special trips to the countries where
"readily agreed that his AFL Free,. ? Cuba, that is, helps the Cuban Coun- ?' 'they conduct subversive and counter. .
.Trade Union Committee is engaged ..
5 sive activities,
ter-revolutionaries in their subver-. ' revolutionary work. Several AFL-'.
,In intelligence work." Edwin Lahey, .. ? CIO leaders, -for instance, visited
.
?Washington correspondent for the S. ? The reactionary coup in Brazil, the.?' British Guiana at the time of the :
'Knight newspapers, writes that "itonslaught on Jagan's governmcnt:..:
, establishment of the military junta'..
can be stated without qualification.. tWhat is more, there is an AFL-CIO.
, in the Dominican Republic, provoca-' .
that the CIA ... has in, recent years
.... agent permanently assigned to the .
; .
obtained much of its primary infor-,,, tions against Dr. Cheddi Jagan's prog. y.S. Embassy there.
ressive government in British Gui-, ?
',Illation about international commu-..., ana-AFL-CIO agents,' have: had .a:., . "The..Iinks between the State De-i
nism from Lovestone." .
.'".hand in all these anti-democratic' partment and Meany's international%
On July 5 this year the Nation mag- I% plots in the Western Hemisphere. .. missionaries are indisputable," Na-,'
.azine carried an article entitled ? "American labour leaders," Nation .:,.tion writes. "The AFL-CIO has its ,
"Lovestone Diplomacy" which sheds ..
' writes; "certainly have a right to ex- own liaison 'man in the Department;
, an ominous light on the activities of .' press a preference between foreign '. 'he is George P. '(Phil) Delaney, who
..some of the American labour lead- . unions controlled by Communists or - eserves as Special Assistant to the +
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?erS.
, neutralists and thosewith pro-Amer- Secretary of State 'for International
Here is what this weekly writes: lean sentiments. And it is certainly Labour Affairs. It is almost impos-
"What the U.S. government does ,.legitimate for them to offer' gifts 'of, :.'sible for any labour attach?o be
'not do directly, because it would be .2 cars or mimeograph machines to help'. appointed to a diplomatic post if,
flagrant meddling with the internal the work of those they favour.' But Meany and Lovestone advise Delaney,:
? affairs of , other nations, and What.- there is a line beyond which such- that he does not please them." The'
'the CIA cannot do because it is sus-
pect, the.AFL-CIO does on their be-
half. In ostensibly innocent rela-,
tionships between unions of one.
: aid becomes intervention." :..,- weekly adds that during the prepa-.
Elsewhere in this article . the:'?::' rations of the coup-which overthrew.
weekly says' that if "the Other side.' Juan Bosch's constitutional 'govern-
'
were doing it, this would be. called ment "In' the Dominican Republic;.! .
country with another, the. AFL-CIO ...:. "outside subversion." "What is intol-. .."Labour Attach?Fred A: Somerford :
'throws its weight toward the making .forable," it write's, "is not that Loire- ..'. , assisted the military junta in every, :.
..:.,
and unmaking of governments, with .;:.:stone and company are anti-Coil:mu- .,..,. i
. . possible way.
the purpose of instilling abroad the, '...nist. ... What is. intolerable is . the :. . 'However rich the American labour:
,phobic anti-communism' that has be- .!..combative, deliberate attempt to set .- ? federations may be, they have not
come entrenched at home." - -:'....'off one type of foreign unionist '.'enough money to .finance all their .;
This is followed with facts. Doz- ....against another in order, to enhance' activities in other countries. Love-
ens of facts. The AFL leaders help- .. the United States position in' the cold ':,. stone, and his group, for Instance,'
ed split the French labour move- ......wai.. What is intolerable' is the del....5' 'were in back of the eleven and a half
'.ment.after the war. They encouraged ,...1..iberate attempt to mould a 'foreign i "'weeks' political "strike" against
. the West-German unions to take part.:.,:.,. union in a barren 'anti-communist'. .::. the progressive forces in 'British'
In the .cold war. Lovestone was one ..:... image." . .. . . ??? '.Guiana. ',The operation. cost ' all of`
of the founders of the Committee of How . How. is this done? Can One attri.. ;'....$1,200,000. As Drew Pearson writes,.
' One Million, formed in the :United ....bute to. the labour unions the meth- ?::?? it was "inspired by a combination o::. ?
'States to keep the People's Republic ,'S 'oda employed ? bY "Lovestone .and , ....CIA...Money and British intelligence."..
of China Out of the UN., Along with':':.' company"? No,...? they .? are .? largely: .-.. But the giddIng force Was thcp AFL-
Admiral 'Burke and Edward ,Teller, -?... 'peculiar to PLoveatc;ne and company,"; ,..C101.,:/,..,??:., ...I% '.! ???? ? ..,. ;?..'?? ? ..? ...' ? ?%"''' ?
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