MEDDLING IN BRAZIL THE CIA BUNGLES ON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300270002-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 17, 2004
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 9, 1968
• Content Type: NSPR

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testing Eartha Kitt's remarks are profoundly discourag- Carmichael; it was Richard Nixon.
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union activity there, through the use of an American principal cause of the failure of Brazil's 16 petroleum
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union as conduit and cover. Interestingly, the exposure unions to un
was headline news in Brazil, but it has been completely Workers. The unions have remained fragmented largely
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blacked out or the American press. because o
The pattern is the familiar one of a nominally private Brazilian locals are warmly encouraged to affiliate with
organization---ill this case the International Federation of. ORIT, the ^ Interanlcrican Regional Organization of
of the ATM' _CTC) in Latiri America.
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can union-buying influence and intelligence with CIA which also promotes apolitical unionism North Ameri-
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money. The story comes comp
the form of a list of payoffs. The AIFLT) was the prime mover behind the drive to
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of using private organizations as fronts have been inter- of financial loans to favored unions. Earlier allegations of
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national student and international labor activity. They CIA invo
provide the Agency with an entree to leftist, activist for- against affiliation in late October, 1967.
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tivity hostile to American interests. Tn the case of the a Sao Paulo trade union leader, Egisto Demonieali. This
was in the form of a complete list of payoff's and other
s blown wide open
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student operation, the sys
largely because NSA had a guilty conscience and told all. expenditures prepared for Alberto Ramos, the IF'CV,
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of Free Labor Development (AlFLD) and the CIA has
been exposed many times, bat All lA) has not been put
out of business, it continues to function as one of the
pet projects of Jay Lovestone, George Meany's Cout-
nlunism expert.
The international Federation of Petroleum and Chemi-
cal Workers was one of those traced to the CiA through
the NSA revelations. According to its own financial re-
port, it received `630,000 front the Andrew Hamilton
Foundation, a CiA front. Since 1965, it and the AIFLD
have been active in Brazil to encourage Brazil's petro-
chcnlical unions to affiliate with their North American
counterpart. 't'his is part of the C IA's continuing effort to
influence Latin American trade?unions to be primarily
apolitical craft guilds, on the assumption that the politics
of Latin unions will be anti-U.S. Apolitical unionism,
though traditional in the I1.S., runs counter to the whole
tradition of the Latin American track union movement,
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for you to distribute to the tnl
cordance with our plans. If you are not available before
tomorrow, then arrange to be here on Wednesday, since
I will be in Rio conversing with Velasquez about other
trips to the U.S." Attached was an itemized expense sheet,
implicating high level government officials, labor leaders,
newsmen, a general, in accepting bribes. Services rendered
ranged front petty favors to the rigging of union elections.
Samples:
Bonus to Jose Abud for his collaboration .`!156.2 5
Special payment for Dr. Jorge M. Filho
of Labor Ministry ....................5875.(10
Trip for Mr. Glaimborc Guimasacs, our
informer at Fegundes St . ............. S 56.25
Photol opies of books and documents of .
Petroleum Federation ........... ? ...'.x100.00
Assistance to Guedes and Eufrasio to
defeirt T.uis I~urtado of the Stizano Union ..5140.64
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Jot giving its fayorable coverage ........ $31 the CIA's "funding private organizations." a t'sts t% a;e;i.
I3onus to Lt. Brandani of the National Investigation can public generally saw the dilemma. The .A=.gency? does
'Service, for help with confidential not "fund" them. It integrates them into its network as a
information ................ ....:.... $564.48 means of gathering intelligence and exerting influence,
The leading daily of Rio de Janeiro, Ultirna Hora, ran' Second, regardless of the Presidential parcel's conclusion
a -banner headline on Dec. 21 stating "Outsiders Send that such activity must stop, it is continuing. And most
Money for Subversion in Brazil." A front page editorial importantly, regardless of the short-run gains, such as the
warned of the serious implications. The leader of the Rio generation of pro-American leaders in labor and student
oil workers union, Lourival Coutinho, presented the case groups, the long-term effect of such activity is to produce
of the petroleum workers to Government and opposition and perpetuate a profound distrust of the United States.
politicians through a petition, and 219 Deputies requested It would be much more in America's interest to cease in-
the formation of a Congressional Investigating Committee terfering with these processes, so that when reactionaries
to consider the scope of activities by the IFPCW and other are displaced it is not invariably necessary to displace
international labor organizations detrimental to Brazilian the United States with them. Perhaps cynicism about
sovereignty. The Federal Chamber of Deputies approved American intentions is beyond reclamation.
the formation of a nine-nian panel, which began hearings The fact that no news of this misadventure reached the
on January 15. President Costa c Silva issued an Execu U.S. press, although the wire services and the major news-
tive Order calling for the prosecution of government, papers are aware of it, is ominous, however one interprets
military and labor officials involved, and denouncing the it. Either someone has enough leverage to squelch the
IFPCW.by name. On Jan, 19, the IFPCW was expelled story, or else nobody thinks it newsworthy-which in a
from Brazil. way is the more alarming construction. ERNEST GARVEY
The story is worth retelling because it illustrates some . (Ernest Carve'' is the pseudorwmn of a free-lance
points which may have been forgotten since last February. writer based in Washington, D.C.)
Perhaps nothing so
geois aspect of American
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evidences the blandly bour-
hj licism over the last 20
years as its dismal record on tli
iousing crisis. The
dimensions of the present sad condif
in the United
of emphasis
States may be highlighted for the purpose!
by the situation in New York City. Usually Nc
York is
not any different--it is only bigger. Some of the sta6Q, cal
realities are frightening. There are approximately a hi
dred thousand families each year possessing a handful of
small card receipts, after having applied to the New York
income" families making, over $:0,00( are accepted, since .
qc developments are tenanted by several magic formu-
City Housing Authority every six months for years. For las df,J