Jay Lovestone person
also: Lovestone, Levstone, J. Lovestone
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Jay Lovestone headed
Free Trade Union Committee documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism #2 @ 16:59
Jay Lovestone member_of
French Communist Party documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism #2 @ 16:59
Jay Lovestone 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
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between the authors and the CIA. And more than one agency division was involved in these operations. The story of the CIA's relation with labor centers, more on Jay Lovestone's former boss of the American Communist Party, who became an agen…
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with an elite group who periodically lunched with Frank Wisner. Overseen by agency's counterintelligence guru, James Jesus Angleton, Lovestone provided data that guided the entire category of the CIA effort. At the moment of the inception o…
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a quote-unquote quasi-independent part of the American Federation of Labor and an obvious candidate for CIA recruitment. Indications are that by 1950, Lovestone's committee had almost quadrupled its previous annual spending thanks to CIA mo…
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One example being the International Center for Free Trade Unions in exile based in Paris. It was a labor initiative with assorted liberation fronts that the CIA supported in the Balkans and East Europe. Lovestone's committee contributed on …
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which again was completely a CIA front. An intense period in the relationship came at the end of 1950. On November 24th, Walter Bedell Smith, Frank Wisner, and Carmel Offey met with Jay Lovestone and other union officials, including George …
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to labor, had officially been put on Lovestone's payroll a few months earlier. The CIA continued to pay Lovestone's salary. Lovestone also thought the CIA had been pinching pennies and behaving as if his committee was merely an agency propr…
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1950 meeting, Lovestone complained about the funding level and Wisner countered by citing the amount the agency had actually given that year, $250,000. This is 1950. Just a few months later, Lovestone submitted even more ambitious proposals…
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whom he suspected of leaking CIA data to Lovestone to be put on the shelf. Activating a new channel, who eventually became James Jesus Angleton, Lovestone met Director Smith and senior officials again in April 51. Carmel Offey left the Love…
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almost half a million dollars. Levstone began to speak of the CIA as Frizzland and his officers as Frizzheads, but he continued reporting and from time to time seeking cash from the CIA. With regards to the CIA and journalism, there is no s…
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So hold on a second. I didn't say the CIA didn't have any money. The Lovestone and those people wanted more money for themselves. The Korean War definitely increased the CIA's budget by a lot. And you're right to point out, but the CIA did …
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Some of them did not have the funds that they would like to have. The CIA was spending like a drunken sailor all along. Go ahead. Yeah. Colonel, I also thought this guy, you know, Lovestone is a really key, important guy for the to understa…
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He's involved in both like overlapping of funding the corruption of the labor unions by the CIA and also the corruption of the artists by the CIA, because after all, they have to have a special union because they're artists. And so it's str…
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Yeah. So RFK, on the other hand, was uniting all of that. He was just the opposite of Lovestone. He was uniting MLK's labor union in sanitation workers, which, like UAW, had industrial unions like part of the CIO. And so in short, the CIO w…
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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 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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In 1929, he fell from grace after the Comintern's Sixth World Congress in Moscow. During the subsequent decade, Lovestone gradually moved into a committed anti-communist. So in other words, he was not well received while he was going to all…
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And he's going to be now a representative of the quote unquote far right. So the AFL film love stones expertise in the subject of communism, a perfect fit for their new anti-communist movement. So they close this section with.…
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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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and make use of front groups. After the war, Lovestone and Brown made use of their European contacts, including Danish ones, allied with leading figures in the trade union movement who had adopted an anti-communist attitude. So, I find that…
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and Europeans, and a long list of third-party countries were represented in the same trade union, international, and to Lovestone's chagrin, they had communist inside of it. So you can see already, without even reading another word of this,…
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a report to Lovestone of that meeting. And they had all decided that by embracing the Marshall Plan, it would be a way of, quote, bypassing the World Federation Trade Union, and that all of that could be done with or without the British, wh…
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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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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…