1. Lovestone’s anti-Communist fervor was a factor in the building of a strong personal and professional bond with CIA counterintelligence chief, James Jesus Angleton. Other labor officials in international affairs also had working relationships with the CIA that at times were contentious. Anthony Carew, “The American Labor Movement in Fizzland: The Free Trade Union Committee and the CIA,” Labor History 39 (1998). Michael HowardHolzman, James Jesus Angleton, The CIA, and The Craft of Counterintelligence (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008).
2. Quenby Olmsted Hughes, The Rise and Fall of the Early Cold War Alliance between the American Federation of Labor and the Central Intelligence Agency (Bern: Peter Lang, 2011).
3. John Boughton, “From Comintern to the Council on Foreign Relations: The Ideological Journey of Michael Ross,” Labor History 48 (2007): 64.
4. Sigrid Koch-Baumgarten, “Changing Gender Relations in German Trade Unions: From ‘Workers’ Patriarchy’ to Gender Democracy?” in Gender, Diversity and Trade Unions, eds., Sue Ledwith and Fiona Colgan (New York: Routledge, 2002).
5. John Herling, “Meany—Reuther Rift?”, Washington Daily News, February 12, 1957, AFL-CIO Reel 1, ICFTU Archives, International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam (henceforth, IISH); Gary K. Busch, The Political Role of International Trade Unions (New York: St. Martin’s, 1983), 184–185.