Irving Brown

Irving Brown was an American tradesunionist, member of the American Federation of Labor and then of the AFLCIO, who played an important role in Western Europe and in Africa, during the Cold War, in supporting splits among tradeunions in order to counter Communist influence. While he was a Central Intelligence Agency agent, he founded in 1962 the American Institute for Free Labor Development along with former Communist Party of America member and CIA agent Jay Lovestone.

Brown was the son of a comrade of Alexander Kerensky, Russian prime minister following the February Revolution, who had emigrated to the United States after the October Revolution of 1917. Born in Bronx, New York in 1911, he became a boxer before joining a trade union, where he clashed with the Teamsters. He studied at New York University and at the University of Columbia.

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