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oo ~ a + ataeoAnD ones Ho. €4 - . bn aa ‘ po Office Memorandum + “UNITED sTatrEs ‘GOVERNMENT | } : Februery. Bs 1950 am Wa , iofe_____ ws +f | TO =: -“THE DIRECTOR | Ww SUBJECT: PROFESSOR ALBERT EINSTEIN Pursuant to your request, there is attached va a summary of = the pertinent information contained in the Bureau files on the captioned individual This summary reflects the following hi gh lights: le liek hake © cin tek th Stele Ae Ge Oe ee BACKGROUND: —F-ofessor AlbentE ir sfejn — Sumpiary guia oe ff | ' instein was born March 14, 2879, in Germany. In December, - _—— 947, he made the following statement; "I came to America because of th dhe creat, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a \ mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot \ 2 ee ew Q crinjce repair in the balance of my life.* He is one of the most eminent scientists - ve ~lin the world today. He received his formal education in Germany and Switzer ; te Jand. In 1905, he stated that mass and energy were equivalent and suggest ON \ that proof of this equivalence might be found by fhe study of radio active ot ~-/ ile Substances. In 1939, Alexander Sacks talked to President Roosevelt and “'€1 presented a letter from Einstein resulting in the original grant of §6, a Niel WA toe’ EG for -the Army and Navy which money was later snowballed into §2,000,000 “ end the atomic bomb. He was offered an opportunity to go to Russia but aS _ not do so. On February 13, 1950, the Atomic Energy Commission advised that -_ Einstein has never been granted a formal clearance by the Manhatten Ingineer District which means that he was never investigated by MED and that no formal clearance was ever granted to Einstein by the Atomic Energy Commission which means that the AEC has never requested the FBI to conduct an investigation as __s ll required under the Atomic Energy Act. No Bureau investigation has ever been conducted on him. He is, and has been a professor of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton Tniversity. t i We - ” ORGANTZATIONS s F \ The Bureau files reflect that Einstein is affiliated in some way il or another with at least 33 organizations that have been cited by the Attorney General, the House Committee on Un-American Activities, or the California House Committee on Un-American Activities. He is also affiliated in one way or another with approximately 50 miscellaneous organizations which have not SR ee pte HLiSt been cited by any of the 3 above-mentioned. He is principally a pacifist . and could be considered a liberal thinker as indigate@) by his connections with the various organizations indicated seers \O/=- Ld 077- x ST apelalaiehaa BUTS wo TQROUD o . KER re es ee oe es . bey 1 AanraA . ay EXPRESSIONS OF IDEOLOGICAL SYMPATHIES: = XD eo ie a kogik f : ; Binstein has made public statements wes. the scientéTic achieve- 56 t. ments of Russia and ‘has indicated that it ig-ghe only country in which equality - v y phrase. He has oppossd militarism and uyiversal military 58 " este i, tates and. has espoused world gov nts In 1948, 59) Atta t me Coa ak “ a veo Loo Ou tw ; 8 a3} d 62! ‘ABF shbsxma:mem * EE Se ARK OO al DBF