Hirsch, Fred. An Analysis of Our AFL-CIO Role in Latin America or Under the Covers with the CIA. San Jose CA, 1974. 57 pages.

This is a brief history of how the AFL-CIO has covertly served the objectives of U.S. foreign policy in Latin America and elsewhere. The primary vehicle for this collusion since the 1960s has been the American Institute for Free Labor Development. The basic premise of AIFLD's international program was that all solutions would come to working people through collective bargaining, but only if they vigorously oppose communism in collaboration with management and government.

A recurring theme of this booklet is the role of the AIFLD and its many front labor organizations as vehicles of the CIA in various countries of Latin America, such as in Chile before the 1973 coup. The function of the AFL and CIO in domestic anticommunism, before and after their merger, is also discussed. Irving Brown, Jay Lovestone, and George Meany are among those who promoted the AIFLD; Brown and Lovestone also aided the CIA in suppressing leftist unions in Italy and France after World War II. In "Cold Warrior" (1991), author Tom Mangold revealed that since 1955 Lovestone had been reporting directly to CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton. -- William Blum
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