Morgan, Ted. A Covert Life: Jay Lovestone - Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster. New York: Random House, 1999. 402 pages.

The Cold War between the Soviet Union and the U.S. began around 1947, and during the 1950s the focus was largely on Communist influence in Western Europe through the trade unions. The CIA pumped money into this battle through the Marshall Plan, and through George Meany and Irving Brown of the American Federation of Labor. The AFL-CIO's American Institute for Free Labor Development received CIA funding during the 1960s and 1970s, and the Free Trade Union Institute received funding from the CIA-inspired National Endowment for Democracy since 1985. As recently as the 2002 coup in Venezuela, the AFL-CIO's American Institute for International Labor Solidarity was headed by Harry Kamberis, who was once ostensibly employed by the State Department, but appears to have been working for the CIA under State Department cover.

Jay Lovestone (1897-1990) was an American Communist who converted to anti-Communism in 1938 and joined the AFL. Meany picked him to run AFL's foreign affairs. This was the beginning of decades of covert intrigue that became public with the opening of Lovestone's papers at the Hoover Institution, and the release of his 5,700-page FBI file. It turns out that Lovestone's spooky career was directed by none other than James Angleton, his close friend and the CIA's head of counterintelligence.
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