John L. Lewis person
also: Lovestone
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Claims (2)
Joseph McCarthy spied_on
John L. Lewis host_asserted
“for financial support. Lovestone also encountered problems with Joseph McCarthy in taking interest in his past and his conspiratorial work methods and had initiated an investigation. McCarthy was stopped by J. Edgar Hoover, who most likely …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism #2 @ 48:33
J. Edgar Hoover covered_up
John L. Lewis host_asserted
“for financial support. Lovestone also encountered problems with Joseph McCarthy in taking interest in his past and his conspiratorial work methods and had initiated an investigation. McCarthy was stopped by J. Edgar Hoover, who most likely …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism #2 @ 48:33
Mentions (8)
▶ 46:39
The main example of this was the Labor Attaché Program, through which the AL announced the appointment of labor attachés at all U.S. embassies. Brown often attended the coordination meeting where these people were designated. At one stage, …
▶ 47:06
is all supporting Operation Gladio. Brown's comprehensive overseas activity started to drain the treasury of the AFL in 1948. They were seeking funds elsewhere. Enter the CIA, which with the dawn of the Cold War, benefited from the trade un…
▶ 47:33
from all of these meetings that included the communists in Eastern European countries, but also Latin America, Africa, and Asia. The relationship between the CIA, Lovestone, and Brown matured and basically said that other than having a few …
▶ 48:02
They worked good because they basically were all working towards the same goal. Lovestone regarded the AFL as playing a vanguard role in international union politics and a vital component of the post-war position of the United States, there…
▶ 48:33
for financial support. Lovestone also encountered problems with Joseph McCarthy in taking interest in his past and his conspiratorial work methods and had initiated an investigation. McCarthy was stopped by J. Edgar Hoover, who most likely …
▶ 49:04
and also said that there were several competing anti-communist strategies inside the United States that merged state and private entities like union representatives. Let's see. There were others who believed that precisely the ex-communists…
▶ 49:38
U.S. experienced problems obtaining visas for the U.S. if you had any quote-unquote communist ties, and yet people like Lovestone came and went at the drop of the hat during that time. An Italian historian by the name of Federico Romero…
▶ 51:05
So basically what they did was set up a thing called free trade unions, which weren't free at all. They were government controlled. There is a practice that Lovestone and Brown set up with this free labor movement, and it says it became par…