Free Trade Union Committee

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The Free Trade Union Committee (FTUC) was created at the 1994 convention of the American Federation of Labor to support non-communist unions abroad. The resolution was drafted by Jay Lovestone who became Executive Secretary.[1] Irving Brown became the FTUC's key man in Europe, leaving for Paris in October 1945. Henry Rutz became the Committee's representative in Germany at around the same time.[2]

In December 1948, FTUC chairman Matthew Woll introduced Jay Lovestone to Frank Wisner of the Office of Policy Coordination. Lovestone began receiving CIA funds from Wisner a month later. Irving Brown also began receiving Marshall Plan funds.[3]

People

Matthew Woll | Jay Lovestone | Irving Brown | Willard Etter | Carmel Offie

Notes

  1. ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life, Random House, 1999, p.144.
  2. ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life, Random House, 1999, p.153.
  3. ↑ Hugh Wilford, Calling the Tune? The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War, Frank Cass, 2003, p.93.
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