Until recently, there has been little concrete evidence linking the American Federation of Labor (AFL) to the U.S. government s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In this book, based upon recently opened archival collections, the author investigates this controversial and complicated early Cold War relationship. Contrary to arguments that the AFL s international activities were entirely controlled by the U.S. government to the detriment of the independent international labor movement, or that the AFL acted on its own without government involvement to foster...
Until recently, there has been little concrete evidence linking the American Federation of Labor (AFL) to the U.S. government s Central Intelligence A...
