EX-C.I.A. AIDE LISTS BIG GRANTS TO UNIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600460013-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: August 8, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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-C.I.A. Aide Lists Big E.,x,
SAYS A1RL1-C1IO1
,.GOT SECRET CASH
Federation' Official Denies
Receiving Any Funds for
Foreign Operations
By MAX FRANKELl
Special to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, May 7-A1
'says he organized the Central)
Intelligence Agency's secret
links to private groups here;
nent American labor leaders!
among the recipients of larg
cash subsidies for their anti
Communist activitles.
The publisher, 'Thomas ..Wj'
Braden, who headed the C.I.A.'a
Division of International Or,
ganization from 1951 to 1954;
said he personally gave $50,000
to Walter and Victor Reuther
of the United Automobile
Workers. He has also dcscrlbedi
numerous secret subsidies . for,
foreign orlerations by Jay Love-'
stone and Irving Brown, who
manage international affair
~
for the A.F.L.-C.I.O.
Walter P. Reuther, in a
statement responding to Mr.I
Braden's assertions, today Mail
on "one occasion" his union
had accepted C,LA. funds to
meet an emergency situation,_.
He said also that Mr. ? Braden
had tried to recruit, his brother;,'
Victor, as a C.I.A." agent but,
was turned down. Mr. Braderh!
later denied that he had tried
to recruit Victor Reuther as an`
agent, is
The other union officials, as
well as their leader, George
Meany, who heads the A.F.L.
C.I.O., and Victor Reuther have
all recently denounced or denied
union links to, the intelligence
agency. ,
After Mr. Braden's assertion
were distributed to newspapers,
Mr. Lovest_one, .s4yjnlr.that ha
spolce.'!164' -;'>r Mr. Brown, del
scribel`'>thcm as "completely,
unlrim."
'Victor Reuther, reached by11 t
The New York Times in Tokyo,
yesterday, said he found it dif-I
ficult to comment before het
saw, the en tire Braden stated
meat, but .fie called a descrip-
yott,,of "incredible'.'-.ands.
pproved For
hese "agents" suggested pro-
nerally to anyone who could
lp the United States "in its
ttle with Communist fronts."
e Baltic ports of Scandina-
the International Committee
Women, and seized control
others, including the World
sembly of Youth. an inactive
s, Including a visit to .France
the Boston Symphony, Or?
estra in 1052.
Denial by Editors
nnected with it ever knew of
e agency's support. i;
nidon aria two
the magazine, now in New,;
rk, firmly denied 1VIr'Brad-~;
nevi that, he was "aware of
Did make no comment.: The
neral 'rsscmbiy of, the con-
bably'authorize s( MQ,,ypm-I
grievously mistaken!
Air. Laslcey said Mr. Braden,
nay have had intimate knowl-
dge of sonic of the other things
f which he spoke in the Sal-i
eon available for comment, line c+ia"ncuug in snore Lna
Mr. Braden described his ac- ' $1-million to the congres
ivitics with the C.I.A. in the "through various, foundation
urrent issue of The Saturday .: was when disclosed earlier this year
;vening Post and answered newspapers. Pers. and maga irday Evening Post article but
ucstions in a, telephone inter- tines unraveled an elaborat a doubted very much that he
iew. network of organizations an Lad direct experience with any-
He said he ,thought he was foundations used to dispcns ling involving Encounter mag-
nl confirmin g what had al- C.I.A. funds to anti-Communis ' zinc.
barges and to suggest to piled that they knew nothin
Lmericans ;he. necessity and about it.
aht qfr coYcrt.aiall; ommunist After The New York Time
ct'ty- reported a year ago that th
fn eveloping his argument, magazine had received indirec
cl-The C.I.A. "placed"- an
gent" AAn the Congress for
vhen Mr. Lasky had not yet
pined Encounter...
Encounter was organized in
933 by Mr. Kristol and Mr.
gender. Mr. Bristol left in 1058
ilia-; a{, ftss ca-editor, and Steph y Mr. Lasky. In the last few
ltd) pendor and Irving Kristol ears Mr. Spender! has served
former editors, wrote to Th s a contributing editor, but he
Times that "we, are our ow signed' yesterday partly as al
"Does The Times . want tit Statement: ' . I
reader to infer that .the editoria I regard, the article"JA. theI
content or that the past o aturday Evening Post; ` Li . e
present editors of Encounte ar, an 4 "cast doubt .upon `th
were in a n y t way influenced b twiny of i "II klatotte _6f I,l Jt4
~a .c v.i.nr . uro,Y UbnCU.
Mr, Braden refused to nam
th?'t. C.LA.'!'aronts" in the con
gr. ss pr ; f he . magazine, no
I wo` ad he do tribe what kind o
.age nt9 he meant. The agency,
;Jie said, usbd the term ",agent"
larticle In the Saturday Evenin,,.'
:Post clearly implies that th
) pi; ' s involved were "agents
ibfi'q)e they were "placed" I
tA4, ongress and "became art
:ec}'ttor" of Encounter. I .1 1
I: Mfr. Lasky, when.,teached by'.
'I'?he Times in London,: said thati
until,, learning of:'Mr..; Braden'sl
him..~"I31d palled. :the' assertion