Irving Brown person
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Irving Brown member_of
AFL-CIO documented
“of the European continent. So he wanted to visit Denmark. He was a representative of the American Federation of Labor, at the time AFL. And if you guys recall, initially AFL was separate from CIO. Now, of course, we know them as AFL-CIO, bu…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism #2 @ 3:00
Irving Brown headed
Free Trade Union Committee documented
“Brown headed the committee's European office, which was located in Brussels, which, remember, is where NATO moves, in November 1946. From there, Brown toured the European continent with a borrowed typewriter and a suitcase packed full of mo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism #2 @ 16:28
Irving Brown recruited
Eiler Jensen documented
“Let me spell that. H-A-A-K-O-N-L-I-E. He encouraged Jensen to gather the leaders of all of the Nordic unions and persuade them to support the Marshall Plan. Late in that year in December, Brown informed Lai that Jensen was prepared to meet …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism #2 @ 36:13
Irving Brown financed_via
Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted
“AFL Washington, Brown was the man through whom money from AFL was sent to Office of Policy Coordination and then the CIA. The Office of Policy Coordination is an entity that comes up several times, especially back in the early days of Opera…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti-Communism #3 @ 27:00
Irving Brown recruited
Jean-François Tremblay book_quoted
“There was an appreciation that Transay's pragmatic attitude and organizational capabilities provided America with a tool that they intended to use. Brown considered him one of his own. Lovestone trusted him and others, like Harry Goldberg, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti-Communism #3 @ 38:38
Irving Brown member_of
AFL-CIO book_quoted
“intellectuals, and journalists who were engaged in a cultural Cold War. He belonged to a group of international journalists and correspondents who informed Irving Brown, director of the union that we've been talking about, the European Offi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 9:17
Irving Brown member_of
Free Trade Union International book_quoted
“intellectuals, and journalists who were engaged in a cultural Cold War. He belonged to a group of international journalists and correspondents who informed Irving Brown, director of the union that we've been talking about, the European Offi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 9:17
CIA funded
Irving Brown book_quoted
“and the European Office of the Union, AFL. The embassy employees were hardly able to connect to North Africans nationalists because the U.S. administration strongly supported the French. The AFL's policy was to limit communist influence in …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 20:10
Irving Brown recruited
Danish Federation of Trade Unions documented
“Irving Brown, had been invited by the Danish Federation of Trade Unions. And he began working very closely with them. Brown's visit was basically just to look at what unions look like in the Nordic countries. And basically, he was conductin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism #2 @ 3:30
Irving Brown funded
Operation Gladio book_quoted
“Brown headed the committee's European office, which was located in Brussels, which, remember, is where NATO moves, in November 1946. From there, Brown toured the European continent with a borrowed typewriter and a suitcase packed full of mo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism #2 @ 16:28
Mentions (21)
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and transnational anti-communist networks at the beginning of the Cold War. So they go back in this particular essay to November of 1945. It says that Irving Brown, an American, had shown up in Copenhagen. He was doing a major tour.…
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of the European continent. So he wanted to visit Denmark. He was a representative of the American Federation of Labor, at the time AFL. And if you guys recall, initially AFL was separate from CIO. Now, of course, we know them as AFL-CIO, bu…
▶ 3:30
Irving Brown, had been invited by the Danish Federation of Trade Unions. And he began working very closely with them. Brown's visit was basically just to look at what unions look like in the Nordic countries. And basically, he was conductin…
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They are going to, they being the international syndicate, is going to begin using trade unions to infiltrate countries to basically install dictatorships. So this is, as we have learned, how they go around and do quote unquote surveys to f…
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the Social Democrat Party had received somewhere in the same ballpark. Eiler Jensen, E-I-L-E-R, Jensen, J-E-N-S-E-N, was the president of the trade union there. And the trade union there was called DFTU. He informed Irving Brown.…
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So, in other words, although they tried to portray it as a separate entity, it was in no way, shape, or form separate. So, F. Tuck was managed by a legendary team of two people, Irving Brown and J. Lovestone, literally written Lovestone, wh…
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Brown headed the committee's European office, which was located in Brussels, which, remember, is where NATO moves, in November 1946. From there, Brown toured the European continent with a borrowed typewriter and a suitcase packed full of mo…
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Brown sent almost daily reports to Jay Lovestone, who ran F-Tuck from its headquarters in Washington, well, in the U.S. I want to say I looked that up and it was Washington. Lovestone was a person for whom, quote unquote, anti-communism was…
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The war was a turning point for the American trade union movement, which achieved legitimacy and recognition. The AFL used Lovestone to channel funds to parts of the European labor movement that were driven underground and contributed to th…
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International Trade Secretariat held a Congress in Copenhagen. The leaders, including the Danish, began expressing displeasure with the WFTU and basically started questioning whether or not they wanted to be members. Irving Brown was the Am…
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of the inclusive one, that the AFL had been using the question of trade secretariats to attack the inclusive one. Brown held a long speech that urged the European trade movements to support the Marshall Plan, which would begin the division …
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Brown continued his offensive during the first two months of 1948. He met with representatives in as many as 14 different countries in Western European to include the Nordic countries. And Brown wrote to Eiler Jensen, quote, I feel the time…
▶ 35:38
that have a common belief and goal, meaning no communists. Then he also said that he wanted all of the Scandinavians to convene trade union conferences and embrace the Marshall Plan, which would further ostracize the Soviet Union. And Brown…
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diplomats. In other words, he was getting indoctrinated into being an operative for the United States in Switzerland. He met with people like William Green, Victor Reuther, and Michael Ross and made contact with two of the most ardent Cold …
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He continued to recount his experience with articles, conference films, exhibitions, and distribution of brochures at a pace that made it seem like they weren't coming from him at all. When he returned, they were distributed to Swiss worker…
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And it's the perfect guise in a place where you're supposedly neutral to use a union to do that. All right. Irving Brown, the representative in Europe for AFL in the Free Trade Union Committee, and his association, which we've already cover…
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and was associated with a guy by the name of Michael Josselson, J-O-S-S-E-L-S-O-N. The relationship between Tranget and Brown was not a passing one. It transformed into a friendship that lasted until the 80s, some 35, 40 years later. The fo…
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There was an appreciation that Transay's pragmatic attitude and organizational capabilities provided America with a tool that they intended to use. Brown considered him one of his own. Lovestone trusted him and others, like Harry Goldberg, …
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In the cause of free unionization in Africa, the U.S. ambassador at the Organization of European Economic Cooperation proposed with the agreement of Irving Brown and J. Lovestone that a Swiss should be named as an assistant secretary genera…
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intellectuals, and journalists who were engaged in a cultural Cold War. He belonged to a group of international journalists and correspondents who informed Irving Brown, director of the union that we've been talking about, the European Offi…
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and the European Office of the Union, AFL. The embassy employees were hardly able to connect to North Africans nationalists because the U.S. administration strongly supported the French. The AFL's policy was to limit communist influence in …