INSIDE LABOR --- REUTHER SET TO BLAST CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100110026-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 8, 2000
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: August 10, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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Ch. Wool Ambassador East 'Allniittce ' chiii than
is as, `,
S. union, elections.
~~e l ,;UI'llieCl? as it usually l5,? 1P Senator fr,'e'y.
L t ward is that the Reluthei?._ lie matter 'with erns
bt .1 i ; plan to give the central
hen I phoned him
In -cr. '?' its is one of the
' ositicot iha the CI q
The
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the' w t 'ld-and prcbpbby insidev' s.' me genueman from
`s. "I have had sun
Duet or. '; y Lovestonc, work hard glove with
closely with' the CIA. owd- in the AFL-CIO.
::;nd} session in Chicago. ;~Ct;i' 'answer from the fo?,?mer
Tilt' itattle; story will leak. 'it Whcn Clip Senator questioned
always does. IA' Director: Richard Helms rc-'
Titus nog matter (which side,: ntly,:; the., latter replied that
+ti ur. , the CIA, which undoubtedly .CIA. ., to the best of his
h,i, a unit of labor specialists ovyJedge, does not "intcivene
dim, trhat crimes naturally in [ec;llq 'or indirectly" in sue i
u ?ci rapidly going labor, will mestic matters as union elec.
sif[e) activities will be made This Matter of alleged CIA
public. orations {inside labor had fol-
For some vvees now Vicloi'' l +'rd .bY a, month the flare-up i
Rcuther's people have had as e1 Victor Reuther'' open at..;
ui, ivi;at they, can to bolster. his .t vestone, but upon the Ameri-
t., s that Meahy, and Love t n Institute for' Free Labor. De-
' , virtually are CIA agen s. + lopment. Victor= Reuther had
l
I'h, nave a skilled and pioht r `riled Ihat secions of AIFLD
i+ri,it ` NN.-caving the maler d been used by ante CIA agents,
amph
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"' '"'" I lee,: Grace, of the fan[etl
Council meeting. liiiship. lino, . is chairman aa
Anger inside the Meany c nnl) i board,
Ove the original and [}eo nt ut 1110' a"Iive executive is a
I'll a,;;es by Victor._ Reulf>ci h .s 1> (fling. Irishman, roe, Bciri;e,
been compounded by rr ports, if d of time Communications
that the yov[nger Reuther, 3l. ekers . o1 America. He is AIFL
Year-old. victor, +verii to ficft;. retarytrcasurer.
hwbf;bhl vvilhrcports nC alleged :t 'is the opinion[ of many ob-
aMeany . Loveston intc)jj,;opcs. ` ?vers v+'ho have 'been out in
lie hl,-in;a1ading_..thi col n-:'
II has put. up social and wel-
fare and clinic centers in such
impoverished areas as Carpina
vides disaster 'aid. It builds
playgrounds.
When Joe Beirne heard of
Victor Reuther's ? charges, ' no
ceiling was too -high for him to }
hit. He pr-'p,ircd to bring charges
against . _:ol?, . though the, lat-;y
toe is just the',hicad if the United
fairs-Dept., aufd is not. a .mein-
bee of '.the higil council which
n ls?'bn .August 22. %
What has. angered .'Many,
Bcirne ,and Lovest.one More than
Iles criticism { made by tile;
,
iteuihers ha s becri' the efteel on
ttii' Al?L CIO's international
ut)r(:, ?I; would be ham pored in
it ` t) lslering. of -free unions
abwe;id J t the., AFL-CIO n.tional
lo be'evow',a' small' section of
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edt.-._.:?s some 20,000 ++worke?[:s
and labor officials throughout
Latin America. It builds worke;?.
1 of big cities such as Mexico City.