BERLIN . @. Facts show CIA very much involved in labor unions EORGE Meany, president of the AFL-CIO on Feb. 20 found the labor federation innocent in the CIA scandal, then four days later said he would investigate. Meany had been asked at the opening of the AFL-CIO’s exec- utive council meeting at Miami Beach whether the federation had received funds from Cen- tral Intelligence Agency. “Abso- lutely not,” he snapped. But the revelations of CIA- labor involvement kept coming. It was revealed that the Ameri- can Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees had received over $200,000 from 1959 to 1964 from the CIA to finance its international opera- tions, which included helping to overthrow Dr. Cheddi Jagan, former prime minister of British Guiana, now named Guyana. Meany told the press he “will look into” the charges of CIA infiltration by “asking ques- tions here and there.” Meany’s promise of inquiry was apparently a toothless con- cession to the mounting pres- sure created by the disclosures, for his next comments indicated that he intends te make short shift of the matter. “TI don’t think it will take too long to get what information I want to get,” he said. He then added that he would not make the results public. If Meany doesn’t know the answers already, he can indeed get them quickly: just by asking his International Affairs direc- tor, Jay Lovestone, who has been alleged by many sources to be the link between the CIA and the AFL-CIO. How CIA rules by terror in Guatemala By PISTA QUICHI AY back in 1954 the U.S. Central Intelligence Agen- cy organized their branch here, G2, a secret military or- ganization that overthrew the Arbenz government which had been elected by 84 percent of the people. Later G2 was organized into an army secret service. They started a blacklist of many of the government ‘leaders, profes- sors and others as Communist and began killing those who could not or would not run fast enough to save their lives. This G2 in civilian clothing controlled the army under the dictatorial governments. They were the ones who arrested and killed 28 revolutionary martyrs and about 500 rebelling farmers in the last two years of the dic- tatorship of Peralta Azurdia, in- Last May, Victor Reuther, in- ternational affairs director of the United Auto Workers, called the international affairs depart- ment of the AFL-CIO “a vest pocket operation of Jay Love- stone,” and charged that it was “involved with the CIA.” During its ClA-connected per- iod, the municipal workers union, conducted its interna- tional affairs through its Public Service International Inter- American Affairs branch, locat- ed in the union’s headquarters, then in Washington, and was Operated almost éntirely on CIA funds. The branch was run by two CIA men operating from a Wash- ington office. They were instru- mental in fomenting — strikes against the Jagan government in ' 1962 and 1963. This action was revealed on Feb. 21 to be part of the anti- Jagan policy of the Kennedy Administration. President Ken- nedy used the CIA in its design to crush the Jagan movement, which had begun taking an in- dependent, anti-imperialist path. The plot worked. Although Jagan was ousted through the electoral. process, the anarchy and chaos created with the back- ing of the CIA and its labor agents is generally regarded as being instrumental in Jagan’s downfall. The agents organized the strikes and provided funds, food and medical supplies to keep Guiana in a state of strife. It was reported that one of the “union” agents even served on a negotiating committee for a Guiana dike workers union that was bargaining with Jagan. Jagan later denounced the agent and forbade him to return to Guiana, which the agent did repeatedly in secret. The municipal union .received its CIA funds through the Gothan Fund of New York, identified as a conduit for the transmission of CIA funds. The sources that broke this story reported that the union’s ties with the CIA were severed in 1964 by Jerry Wurf upon his election as international presi- dent. Wurf, who defeated in- cumbent Arnold Zander as union head, immediately dis- banded the international affairs section. Zander is now president of the United World eS in Washington. One of the agents involved with the CIA under Zander is now a provincial adviser for the The ‘Ramparts they watd Special to the Tribune WASHINGTON Sources close to the White House are telling the story of an extraordinary press conference held here recently where the word given was: Get Ramparts. - The report said a select group of newsmen had been called to- gether and asked to “‘check on the Communist connections” of members of the magazine staff and other reporters who persist in uncovering more information Agency for International Deve- lopment in Vietnam. The other’s whereabouts is unknown. Other unions that have alleg- edly received CIA money are the Newspaper Guild, which the U.S. Worker’s George Morris revealed was also involved in the anti-Jagan actions in British - Guiana, the Retail Clerks Inter- national Association and the International Federation of Pet- roleum and Chemical Workers. The Guild received about $1 million since 1960, and the Re- tail Clerks got a grant of $30,000 from the Granary Fund of Bos- ton in 1965. The Granary Fund was identified as a CIA conduit. The Denver Post has charged that the Petroleum Workers Union had been used by the CIA to pump “hundreds of thousands of dollars into under- cover activities in Latin Ameri- ca and the Middle East.” about the connection between the Central Intelligence Agency and private organizations, most particularly the National Stu- dents Association. Sources of this report are de- scribing what they call ‘‘a coun- ter offensive” which they say is being launched and coordinated by high government officials. The Capitol sources, who asked not to be named, said that Vice- President Hubert Humphrey had expressed great concern over the effects of the Ramparts reve- lations and has declared that any ‘AN ARMY OF SPIES’ cluding members of the present government party. This government does not dare to investigate, much less punish them. Instead they turn over all the power of government to them. So they can kill more pro- fessors, labor organizers, intel- lectuals and farmers—all whom the American CIA and _ their local branch want to kill. They merely paint them as Commun- ist or guerillas or they are turn- ed in by the army of spies who are paid $25 a month by the G2 which has unlimited funds just like the CIA. It should be said that $25 is a lot of money in Guatemala where for a full time job $46 a month is a considered high pay. They raided the home of the president of the student asso- ciation and arrested him, his father, sister and one brother. They ransacked the home. They found a picture that was taken in Moscow with other professors including Americans who had been on a study tour of the USSR. This photo was used as an excuse to turn information on the ‘professors over to a terror group called ‘‘Whitehand”. “Whitehand’ bombed daily and weekly newspaper offices, radio stations and the homes of many who dare to speak up or write against them. They used the blacklist that was compiled by G2. They killed all the liberal and revolutionary weeklies, ar- resting the editors and.deporting some of them. The government can’t or won't do anything against them as they have the protection of the police and army. After this government took of- fice in July, G2 and their ad- visors in the CIA started a counter - guerilla war in four states. More than 2,000 soldiers un- der the leadership of six Ame- rican experts who learned their trade in Vietnam are warring against the rebels. Under the military dictatorship and mili- tary censorship the only news that can get out is how many rebels are killed. Every day eight or nine bodies are found in the’ Zacapa district alone, where the fighting is most savage. As the rebels became better organized so too did G2 and now there are over 1,000 American experts, all veterans of the Viet- nam struggle, advising the mili- tary in Guatemala. But their expert leadership has an opposite effect. More peo- ple are joining the rebels. So the civil war—or as the Americans call it, “the cleaning up of the rebels’”—might go on for many more years. Meanwhile the coun- try sinks into an economic chaos. BUENOS AIRES _Des Moines “A C.I.A. Game: How C.1.A. agents con you den in this picture?” Lloyd Haskins, genetel ‘ tary of the federation, ¥ “bet some two million mem 153 unions in 78 counttl nied the charge. The Pos sources in comm Switzerland had confirm the federation receive of $40, 000 in 1961 a” from the Andrew ot al of Philadelphia, which hi identified as a CIA cond! further revelations W® harmful to.the CIA and t ernment. There are ume circulating in the W4 community of newsmen itors are turning a J eye on the voluminous being uncovered of ence in non-governmen AF non-intelligence affairs: . gh ently newsmen returnil® their offices with) wh@ think are hot stories af that editors greet thell =~ with a cold stare. i This writer heard oné ret G2 leaders who was nil! jobs with pay of $25 a Mtg part time work inthe Gi! full time for $60-70. pointed out that he knew i rebel leaders, saying ® that man that he ha minister in the Arben ment. 40" ae: For hours he sat in the jie store which sold Marx! Wel. ture checking on the qit™ When asked if ArbenZ sil turn to Guatemala, he a a vicious manner, that h® Arbenz would. Many ll exiles know that G2 wolk : pose of them, so they n return to their country: 791 The terror and rule bY ml increase—as will also th” | and hunger of the peop!’ i point where something to give. Then will come 8 blow up—a basic soc! volution. pad March 17, 1967—PACIFIC TRIBUNE?