Editing Workers' Force (section)

==CIA involvement==
The group's ties with the American [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA) were leaked in 1967 by [[Thomas Braden]], a former director of covert operations for the agency. In his expose on ''[[The Saturday Evening Post]]'', Braden wrote of the CGT strike: "Into this crisis stepped [[Jay Lovestone|[Jay] Lovestone]] and his assistant, [[Irving Brown]]. With funds from [[David Dubinsky|Dubinsky]]'s [[International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union|union]], they organized Force Ouvrière, a non-Communist union. When they ran out of money, they appealed to the CIA. Thus began the secret subsidy of free trade-unions which soon spread to Italy. Without that subsidy, postwar history might have gone very differently." American influence was never total, and there were disputes between FO leadership and the American representatives (for example, over French colonialism).<ref name=Wall1991>{{cite book|last=Wall|first=Irwin M.|title=The United States and the making of postwar France, 1945-1954|year=1991|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=9780521402170|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rnS4wOYyuCgC&q=Marseilles%20strike%20%22mediterranean%20committee%22&pg=PA109|edition=Paperback|access-date=4 August 2012|page=109|chapter=Americanizing the French|quote=But the judgment of Caffrey was that the bitter political strikes of 1947 gave rise to FO, and if the Americans were midwives in its birth, they were unable to affect its subsequent growth and development. Almost at once stinging critiques appeared of FO's internal operations in American Embassy reports.}}</ref>