Richard Deverall
 Richard Deverall    (labor organiser, spook) | ||||||||||||
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| Born | 20 September 1911 Brooklyn, New York, USA | |||||||||||
| Died | 1980 (Age 69) Florida, USA | |||||||||||
| Nationality | US | |||||||||||
| Alma mater | Newark Institute of Technology, Columbia University, Villanova College | |||||||||||
| Religion | Catholic | |||||||||||
US labour organizer who funneled CIA money to take control over Japanese and other Asia labor unions.
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Richard Lawrence Grace Deverall' was a US labour organizer.[1]
Education
Deverall was born in Brooklyn, New York, on September 20, 1911. He began work as a machinist apprentice in 1925 and continued his education at night school. Deverall later attended Newark Institute of Technology (1930), Columbia University (1931-1934), and Villanova College (1935-1938), where he received a BS in Sociology. A devoted Catholic, Deverall founded and co-edited The Christian Front (1936-1939), and its successor, Christian Social Action (1939-1942).
Career
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.
In the highly politicized labour education division, he was regarded as obsessively anti-communist, having reported several of his colleagues to G2, the military intelligence division, as fellow travellers.[3] He left Japan in 1948.
In 1949, Deverall was hired by Jay Lovestone to run the AFL's Far East Bureau in Japan.[4] In hiring Dick Deverall, Lovestone’s original intention was to send him back to Japan as FTUC representative, but military governor MacArthur barred him from entering the country, and he was then deployed in India instead.
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] By then, Deverall directed the FTUC's second largest program, with expenditures totaling $66,900 between 1952 and 1956.[8]
Lovestone sided with him in the face of a welter of trade union opinion and experience that considered Deverall to be psychologically unstable and a potential liability. Irving Brown was privately dismissive of Deverall for his poor judgment and "low grade," "phoney impressionistic" reports from the field. Over time, George Meany would likewise come to mistrust information emanating from Deverall, though for many years he still allowed Lovestone to protect his friend.[8]
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.[9]
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ a b https://read.aupress.ca/read/american-labour-s-cold-war-abroad/section/1fa5978f-0712-4987-918c-4fcbb1117fab
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, pp.313-314.
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