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or ad ee aly egies ac HA ME BW " et = zy bie: tay ty ay i” 1 re FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Twis case omamare ar’ LOS ANGELES yg re 2100-18112 REPORT MADE aT vor men MADE é >- 108 ANGELES 22,26,26,28,' * 5 * : + t y Tee - 9+11,14,26, CHARACTER OF CASE BERTOLT BUGEN FRIEDRICH PRECET, 26,26/44 INTERNAL SECURITY - R wi plinses;, Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, SYNOPSIS OF FACTS: PERSOWAL & BOWRIDENTIAL. ee a ,- fee . ENTIAN Reference 6-iS. BERT BRECHT German alien born cw NNFID: Augsburg, Germany, 2/10/98, arrived U.S. at San oe Pedro, Calif., 7/21/41, from Finland. He is German * “ poet allegedly a Communist and member of underground « _ in Europe. In 193] he and HANS EISLER wrote "Song of * \ - ‘ Solidarity," adopted by Communist youth organization / in Germany. He was exiled from Germany in about 1933 pre end has since lived in Finland, France and Russia. -§ . _. ; From 1935 to 1939 he signed with LION FEUCHTWANGER ° and WILLY BREDEL as editor of "Das Wort (The Word)", —— published in Moscow by exiled German C sts. In , 1936 he allegedly assisted "Profeasor & ACOBSON, Soviet agent,” in organizing German-Comaunist Modern Movement Group in Los angeles, but Afsnpresence in U.S.4;. at that time unconfirmed. His writings in 1959 advo- cate overthrow of capitalism, establishment of Com- nist state, and use of sabotage by labor to attain its w~ ends. From July 1939 to July 1940 he received $80 per - - month from fund collected by FRITZ LANG, Hollywood, , _ California, with kmowledge and approval of OTTO KATZ, ‘ —, -j alleged OGPU agent in Mexico, active in Free German eo movement, which aims et pro-Russian postwar German { ' NG goverment. In U.8. he has written for “Freies ; > ° * Deutschland,” organ of Free German movement, and has ‘ at affiliated with LION FEUCRTWANGER, HEINRICH WAXY, and Xx HANS FISLER, all communistic German writere now in LA area and active in Pree German movement. From February to May 1943, and November 1943 to larch or April 1944, he visited New York, where he allegedly was active in bed TT —- ion lodclinite Declesstficati Qa’ rT {Is " etewttioa 19 FZ * - Exempt from GDS, Categor? af an ants af D BO NOT WRITE IN THESE SPACES corms OF THs AEFORT 2 Sen Francisco (info) <* 2 New York o NN \ 2 New Orleans “ me 2 Cincinnati 5 Los Angeles," * ;