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GUEST EDITORIAL

CIA'S CAMPUS CAPER

THe CIA has been caught in a campus

caper which only serves to point up
once again how this uncontrolled super-
Snoop agency corrupts everything it
touches. This time the CIA has been ex-
posed in the act of buying off some
leaders of the National Student Associa-
tion, the largest and oldest group of its

kind, with some 1.5 million students on
300 campuses.

The CIA subsidized the NSA — to the
tune of up to $200,000 a year — all in
the name of aiding student organizations,
while whipping up more cold war antag-
onisms, making spies of some students
who contacted other students overseas,
ostensibly with no axe to grind. Now
that the CIA has been caught once again
with its pants at half-mast, the public
must be getting tired of this legalized
underground agency whose funds—paid
for by our taxes — seem to be without
limit, unreported in any budget and cap-
able of doing unlimited harm in corrupt-
ing and subverting not only leaders of
other nations, but even some of our nice
crew-cut kids.

President Truman, who signed the
order creating the CIA in 1947, himself
commented in 1953: “We have grown up
as a nation, respected for our free insti-
tutions and for our ability to maintain a
free and open society. There is something
about the way the CIA has been func-
tioning that is casting a shadow over our
historic position and | feel that we need
to correct it.”

The corrupting hand of the CIA has
also reached deep into the labor move-
ment. In recent months many labor lead-
ers have been taking some new, hard
looks at an AFL-CIO supported organiza-
tion known as the American Institute for
Free Labor Development (AIFLD) which
was set up to “educate” and train Latin-

American trade unionists.

AIFLD was organized in 1962 and
financed by labor, business and govern-
ment. Last year, the AFL-CIO contributed
around $200,000; business, about $160,-
000—and government, some $3 million.

It is this organization — purportedly
working to counteract “communist influ-
ences” in Latin-American trade -unions,
which has been charged repeatedly with
funneling money and trained men — as
an agency of the CIA —to help over-
throw “unfriendly” governments in Latin
America. “Unfriendly” is a term often
‘used to characterize governments which
might not want to give United Fruit Com-
pany or oil corporations or mining inter-

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ests complete and free reign over a small
country’s resources and workers.

American labor’s diplomacy abroad,
under the control of AFL-CIO President
George Meany’s foreign-policy adviser,
Jay Lovestone, has worked hand-in-hand
with the CIA as an unofficial arm of cold
war politics.

Sidney Lens, a respected labor leader
and writer, recalls: “Someone who work-
ed with the AIFLD in Bolivia explained
its operations to me this way: By the def-
inition of AIFLD anyone who wanted a
raise was a communist. Its whole purpose
was to make the 120 or so men it trained
into government supporters. It was will-
ing to do something for union men only if
they would kick the communists out of
their union.”

The result, says Lens, is that a few
militant unions were kicked into line —
to. support a dictatorial regime that the
US State Department and CIA was sup-
porting.

In his article in The Nation, July 5,
1965, titled “American Labor Abroad,
Lovestone Diplomacy,” a study of CIA-
inspired American labor diplomacy, Lens
said that Meany and his foreign policy
experts have claimed credit for some of
the following:

Helping to split the Italian and French
labor movements; encouraging the em-
ergence of conservative leaders in West
German labor movements committed to
the cold war; the gathering of hard in-
telligence which has nothing to do with
legitimate trade union work; supporting
unions that deposed the progressive Ja-
‘gan government in British Guiana; en-
dorsed and financed right-wing leaders
in the Dominican Republic who played
a role in ousting the democratic Juan
Bosch government, and led to the inter-
vention in Santo Domingo; training Bra-
zilians who joined the generals who over-
threw. the constitutional government and
set up a military regime; defended every
military intervention, including Cuba,
Congo, Vietnam, etc.; “educated” liter-
ally tens of thousands of unionists in other
countries and turned them loose with

money against so-called left-of-center
union leadership,

We agree with the San Francisco
Chronicle that “the top leadership of the
executive branch of Government should
tell the CIA to lay off the students and go
back to their XKE Jaguars with retract-
able scimitars.” And while they’re about
it, they might stop trying to buy off the
labor movement.

—The Dispatcher

THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

YA SHOULD HAVE RUN INTO A FLAG MAN ‘BOUT
A MILE BACK!

“SORRY ABOUT THAT"

The Editor:

Just a short note to point
out an error: which appeared
in- the second issue of the
Lumber Worker for the
month of January, 1967. Un-
der the caption “1-71 Aids
Community,” one paragraph
states that the IWA officers
brought the problem to the
attention of a number of
MLA’s.

You have printed the name
of Frank Calder, NDP-MLA
for Skeena. The Honourable
Mr. Calder is not the MLA
for Skeena. Mr. Dudley G.
Little, Social Credit MLA is
the representative for Skeena,
The MP for Skeena is Mr.
Frank Howard of the NDP.

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able to rectify this error in a ,
forthcoming edition.

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Celgar Sub Local. :

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We apologize for our error.
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knows, the NDP-MLA for the |
riding of Atlin. In defending ,
our mistake all we can say is

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