DENVER PAPER SAYS C.I.A. USED OIL UNION
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Publication Date:
February 26, 1967
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1 DENVER PAPER SAYS
O.I.A. USE OIL UNION
DENVER.'Feb_ 24 (API-
The Denver Post said in a copy-
righted article Friday that the
Central Intelligence Agency
used a Denver-based labor or-
ganization "to pump hundreds
of thousands of dollars into
undercover activities in Latin
America and the Middle-East."
The paper named the organ-
ization as the International
Federation of Petroleum and
Chemical Workers, which claims
about two million members in
153 unions in 78 countries.
Ibyd Haskins, general secre-
tary of the federation, velhe-
mently denied that the federa-
tion had received any funds
from the intelligence agency.
"I don't know whore you got
such a report," Mr. Haskins
said. "It's completely false."
The Post, said sources in
Washington and Switzerland
had confirmed that the federa-
tion received a total of $40,000
in 1961' and 1962 from the An-
drew Hamilton Fund of Phila-
delphl'a. It said this fund had
been !'identified as a link in the
C.I.A. money-funneling opera-
tion."
"Other sources said C.I.A.
,funding of the federation would
probably total 'several hundred
.thousand dollars a year; " the
gaper added.
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