Trades Union Committee for European and Transatlantic Understanding

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Trades Union Committee for European and Transatlantic Understanding (TUCETU) is a CIA front organisation.

It is an especially obscure organisation, with only about 100 hits on google (summing the name and the acroynm)

According to Socialist Appeal, the precursor of TUCETU was the Labour Committee for Transatlantic Understanding which it says was set up in 1976 by the late Joe Godson who was "Labour Attache at the US Embassy in London in the 1950s, and a close friend of Hugh Gaitskell". [1]

"The Atlantic Council/TUCETU network provided the recruits for New Labour's Ministry of Defence team. Defence Secretary George Robertson, before becoming general secretary of NATO, was a member of the Council of the Atlantic Committee from 1979-90; Lord Gilbert, Minister of State for Defence Procurement, is listed as TUCETU vice-chair; Dr John Reid, former Minister of State for the Armed Forces and chairman of the Labour Party, spoke at a TUCETU conference; and MoD press office biographical notes on junior Defence Minister John Spellar state that he "has been a long standing member of the Trade Union Committee for European and Transatlantic Understanding". Speller had his own office and secretary in AEEU headquarters, and was deeply involved in Sir Ken Jackson's failed attempt to hang on to the leadership of the union. How was this operation funded? Peter Mandelson has also written a pamphlet for TUCETU based on a speech he gave to its 1996 conference," Socialist Appeal wrote.


List of personnel

Address

C/o Cringle Lodge,
Stoke Rochford,
Nr Grantham,
Lincolnshire NG33 5EF
United Kingdom

External links

David Osler Big Business and the Moderates, first published in 1995 in CPSA Rank and file publication Inside the Moderates.

References

  1. ↑ Editorial statement of the Socialist Appeal Britain April 23rd 2003No to witch-hunts in the Labour Party last accessed 4th October 2007


See also: British American Project

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