Hirsch,F. Our AFL-CIO Role in Latin America. 1974
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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