Jay Lovestone

[[File:Lovestone-and-Dubinsky-1930s.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2|Lovestone gives a speech at a union rally with [[David Dubinsky]] {{circa}} 1930s]]

[[File:Lovestone-and-Dubinsky-1930s.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2|Lovestone gives a speech at a union rally with [[David Dubinsky]] {{circa}} 1930s]]

In 1944, [[David Dubinsky]] arranged to place Lovestone in the AFL’s [[Free Trade Union Committee]], where he worked out of the ILGWU’s headquarters. Along with [[Irving Brown]] he led the activities of the [[American Institute for Free Labor Development]], an organization sponsored by the AFL which worked internationally, organizing free labor unions in Europe and Latin America which were not Communist-controlled. In connection with that work he cooperated closely with the [[CIA]], feeding information about Communist labor-union activities to [[James Jesus Angleton]], the CIA’s counterintelligence chief, in order to undermine Communist influence in the international union movement and provide intelligence to the US government. He remained there until 1963 when he became director of the [[AFL–CIO]]’s International Affairs Department (IAD), which quietly sent millions of dollars from the CIA to aid anti-communist activities internationally, particularly in [[Latin America]].<ref>Victor Reuther ”The Brothers Reuther and the Story of the UAW”. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976; pgs. 411–427.</ref>

In 1944, [[David Dubinsky]] arranged to place Lovestone in the AFL’s [[Free Trade Union Committee]], where he worked out of the ILGWU’s headquarters. Along with [[Irving Brown]] he led the activities of the [[American Institute for Free Labor Development]], an organization sponsored by the AFL which worked internationally, organizing free labor unions in Europe and Latin America which were not Communist-controlled. In connection with that work he cooperated closely with the [[CIA]], feeding information about Communist labor-union activities to [[James Jesus Angleton]], the CIA’s counterintelligence chief, in order to undermine Communist influence in the international union movement and provide intelligence to the US government. He remained there until 1963 when he became director of the [[AFL–CIO]]’s International Affairs Department (IAD), which quietly sent millions of dollars from the CIA to aid anti-communist activities internationally, particularly in [[Latin America]].<ref>Victor Reuther ”The Brothers Reuther and the Story of the UAW”. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976; pgs. 411–427.</ref>

He was a member of the anti-Castro organization, Citizens Committee for a Free Cuba.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kihss |first1=Peter |title=44 in U.S. Establish Committee to Fight Communism in Cuba; NEW GROUP SET UP TO OPPOSE CASTRO |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1963/05/06/archives/44-in-us-establish-committee-to-fight-communism-in-cuba-new-group.html |work=The New York Times}}</ref>

[[File:Jay Lovestone 1956.jpg|thumb|right|Lovestone {{circa}} 1956]]

[[File:Jay Lovestone 1956.jpg|thumb|right|Lovestone {{circa}} 1956]]