Richard Deverall
Richard Deverall (1911-1980) was a US labour organizer.[1]
Deverall worked in the United Auto Workers Education department until he was fired by Walter Reuther. He enlisted as a private in the US Army in 1943, and was posted to Japan to work for the Labor Education Branch of the US Military Government in December 1945.[2]
He left Japan in 1948, after having antagonised colleagues by reporting on Communist infiltration to G-2 military intelligence.[3]
In 1949, Deverall was hired by Jay Lovestone to run the AFL's Far East Bureau in Japan.[4]
In 1951, Deverall was based in India as part of the network run by Jay Lovestone. The CIA pledged £30,050 towards his costs.[5]
Arriving in Tokyo in 1952, Deverall backed the Pro-US Zenro labour federation against the larger Sohyo. He alienated the US Ambassador Robert Murphy with allegations of Communist infiltration amongst his staff.[6]
He was recalled to the US after publicly criticising US labour attaché Allen Taylor in early 1955.[7]
In 1956, Deverall was posted to the ICFTU in Brussels as an assistant to Hans Gottfurcht. He was regarded by his colleagues as a spy for Lovestone, to whom he reported on goings-on at the office.[8]
Notes
- ↑ Richard L. G. Deverall, The American Catholic Research Center and University Archives, accessed 3 October 2013.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.295.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.296.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.296.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.221.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.298.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.298.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, pp.313-314.