Center for Labor and Social Studies organization
also: CLSS, CLS, DLSS
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CIAintelligence service · 6Edward Whitmoreperson · 4Charles McCaryperson · 3Sol Levitasperson · 2Saul Saltasperson · 1The New Leaderorganization · 1
Claims (6)
Saul Saltas member_of
Center for Labor and Social Studies book_quoted
“Starting in 63, he was infiltrated with the Center of Labor and Social Studies Incorporated in Rome, Italy, which focused on training and assisting underdeveloped countries on their road to development. These activities made TOS an energeti…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 8:46
Saul Saltas member_of
Center for Labor and Social Studies book_quoted
“When they went in, the people like William Polly and bought up all of the industry, they groomed a political elite that allowed them to be the plantation overseers and oppress all of the rest of the people there. They did it throughout Lati…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 31:08
Edward Whitmore headed
Center for Labor and Social Studies book_quoted
“After Levitas' death in 61, the committee basically was ineffective. Around the same time, the CIA expanded into new fields of front operations. Evidence suggests that the agency appropriated the committee and transformed the CLS in 1962. A…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 32:32
Charles McCary headed
Center for Labor and Social Studies book_quoted
“And you guys see the same thing building. They are using the boogeyman of the Soviet Union to build their own infiltrated labor. In 1965, Whitmore became the director of the Tokyo office. He was replaced in Rome by a guy by the name of Char…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 34:51
Sol Levitas founded
Center for Labor and Social Studies book_quoted
“Very little is known about the CLSS, and there are no accessible records left, and references to its existence have basically been scrubbed. It originated in a committee established in 1956 by TNL editor Sol Levitas, which had mainly engage…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 32:03
CIA funded
Center for Labor and Social Studies book_quoted
“After Levitas' death in 61, the committee basically was ineffective. Around the same time, the CIA expanded into new fields of front operations. Evidence suggests that the agency appropriated the committee and transformed the CLS in 1962. A…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 32:32
Mentions (11)
▶ 8:46
Starting in 63, he was infiltrated with the Center of Labor and Social Studies Incorporated in Rome, Italy, which focused on training and assisting underdeveloped countries on their road to development. These activities made TOS an energeti…
▶ 31:08
When they went in, the people like William Polly and bought up all of the industry, they groomed a political elite that allowed them to be the plantation overseers and oppress all of the rest of the people there. They did it throughout Lati…
▶ 31:37
This organization was called the Center for Labor and Social Studies, CLSS. The Center for Labor and Social Studies paid him for reports on political developments in all the new independent African states. They hired him to participate in s…
▶ 32:03
Very little is known about the CLSS, and there are no accessible records left, and references to its existence have basically been scrubbed. It originated in a committee established in 1956 by TNL editor Sol Levitas, which had mainly engage…
▶ 32:32
After Levitas' death in 61, the committee basically was ineffective. Around the same time, the CIA expanded into new fields of front operations. Evidence suggests that the agency appropriated the committee and transformed the CLS in 1962. A…
▶ 33:01
W-H-I-T-T-E-M-O-R-E became its director. At first, DLSS focused mainly on Africa, but in 1965, they opened new offices in Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo. The center was supported by internationalists, socialists, and trade unions. It presented itse…
▶ 33:29
but it was CIA funded. Social justice, let me say that again, social justice was at its core. Its creed was service, research, solidarity, and its activities were described as follows, quote, the center encourages and assists in the publica…
▶ 34:51
And you guys see the same thing building. They are using the boogeyman of the Soviet Union to build their own infiltrated labor. In 1965, Whitmore became the director of the Tokyo office. He was replaced in Rome by a guy by the name of Char…
▶ 35:21
McCary had been working for the agency since 1957 performing undercover assignments all over the world. He resigned from CLSS and from the CIA in July of 1967 because he wished to return to the U.S. after 10 years of being abroad and to his…
▶ 35:50
had everything to do with the exposure of the CIA as the secret funder of civic organizations both inside and outside the U.S. Considering the positions of Whitmore and McCary, the CLSS was nothing more than a CIA front.…
▶ 36:14
The CLSS activities seem to have been rather low key. According to its annual report in 64 and 65, they compiled a directory of some 300 European quote unquote non-governmental organizations in which they were setting up training and provid…