Ernest Lee
Ernest Lee was an American trade unionist.[1]
When Jay Lovestone took over the AFLO-CIO International Affairs Department in 1963, Lee ran the department's Washington office while Lovestone worked out of New York.[2]
In 1969, the Vietnamese labour leader and CIA asset Tran Quoc Buu asked Lee for cash support to start a political party.[3]
After the fall of Saigon in 1975, Lee and Lovestone helped Tran Qouc Buu resettle in Arkansas.[4]
Lee succeeded Lovestone as head of the International Department from 1974 to 1982. In this post-Vietnam period the position had a lower profile than under his predecessor.[5] He was himself succeeded by Irving Brown.[6]
Lee married George Meany's daughter Eileen.[7]
Notes
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.366.
- ↑ >Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.336.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.342.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.347.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.351.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.366.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.143.
