EAN: 9783034302128

IN THE INTEREST OF DEMOCRACY - QUENBY HUGHES KA...

Until recently  there has been little concrete evidence linking the American Federation of
Labor (AFL) to the U.S. government's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the late 1940s and
early 1950s. In this book  based upon recently opened archival collections  the author
investigates this controversial and complicated early Cold War relationship. Contrary to
arguments that the AFL's international activities were entirely controlled by the U.S.
government to the detriment of the independent international labor movement  or that the AFL
acted on its own without government involvement to foster legitimate anti-communist trade
unions  the author's examination of the archival sources reveals that the AFL and the CIA made
an alliance of convenience based upon common goals and ideologies  which dissolved when the
balance of power shifted away from the AFL and into the hands of the CIA. In addition to
tracing the complicated historical threads which resulted in an apparently unlikely
relationship  three specific examples of how the AFL worked with the CIA are investigated in
this book: the development of the anti-communist trade union federation Force Ouvrière in
France  the AFL campaign against the Soviet Union's use of «slave labor» at the UN  and labor's
role in the activities of the National Committee for a Free Europe  including Radio Free Europe
and the Free Trade Union Center in Exile.

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