A SCORE FOR FREE LABOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000100820020-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 17, 2014
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: August 31, 1965
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/01/17 : CIA-RDP73-00475R000100820020-5
AUG 3 1 1965
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AL Score for Free' Labor
The American Institute of Free 1:
Labor Development (AIFLD), part of
the ? Free World's. answer to corn- :?,?-
munist subversion in Latin America, .
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? is evidently hurting, the communist
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[apparatus there.. ?.; " .?
?
: This is indicated by a vicious attack.
made on the AIFLP by a newspaper in
Santiago, Chile, that is a' consistent .
spokesman for the extreme left and a
frequent peddler of the straight ?corn-
munist line., ?
?
;-:. Beginning .two ye a r s ago, the ?'?':?-?
; AIFLD started, establishing training
schools for Latin America's free labor ????
: leaders. The Institute's first executive
director. was Serafinn Romualdi, long- ''?
time AFL-CIO representative for Lat-
in America. Dr. Romualdi is one of the.
i.Western World's great pioneers in the .
modern struggle against totalitarian-
ism
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of both the right and the left. ? ?
? ; .? The AILFD is supported by funds '
from U.S. labor, from U.S. private
; business and from the U.S. govern. ?;, ?
. Iment. Though it is entirely autono. ,
Imous, its existence is truly an expres-
sion of support from the entire Amer?.
ican nation for these Latin American'
workers who do not intend to see their'. ,
lands fall under the, communist yoke. -
;.
The Chilean newspaper now charges....
;that the purpose of the AIFLD is to
1.train spies for the U.S. government. ?
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This charge had ,to come sooner or
? later, since it isthe hackneyed accusa-
:ton that the communist apparatus ?
'always makes? against its Free World ????.:
!, opponents. ? 7.! . ?
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The AIFLD has now joined a dis-???
.tinguished _company. . Freedom-loving '
? Latin Amerirans, well rig North
uwrican- v-ho (prry
;11?1?1 y , th. ,.) Re Ito it
??? ? .1.? it? wi? ? ;