William Green person
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John L. Lewisperson · 4U.S. State Departmentorganization · 1Operation Gladiooperation · 1Soviet Unioncountry · 1Denmarkcountry · 1Irving Brownperson · 1Jay Lovestoneperson · 1Victor Reutherperson · 1CIAintelligence service · 1Michael Rossperson · 1
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Brown's efforts in Denmark were supplemented by the U.S. State Department, which saw the Nordic countries as the strongest social democrat bulwark against communist influence. At least that's how they build it. The State Department consider…
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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, …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …