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? ' Office MShora UM) « unre, Ee GOVERNMENT ‘enone 5 BO _3 BERTOLY EUGEN FRIEDRICH BRECHT _— =: eo Me - SUBJECT. BRET, Wal : : ; DATEL SOURITY - 2 : The subject testified before the House Committee on Un~ | —— 5 § American Activities on October 30, 1947 regarding Commmist activity Be bus a, in Hollywood. Newspaper accounts of his testizony indicate he — + clained not to be and never to have been a mexber of the Ccoamunist ‘ Party in this or any cther country. The Bureau has received information Brecht plamed an 18-month trip to Europe in Septexber last, but postponed it in favor of testifying before the House Committee. He being an - alien, it was decided to interview him pricr to his proposed departure regard- comnty his Commis activity and contacts with know Soviet agents in this -p snthorisation was given to the los Angeles and New York Offices to this interview, but the interview was held in abeyance mtil after coodnct testimony before the Un-American Activities Comittee. REC GAENTATION that the subject be interviewed at this time by the Los Angeles Mew York Office in view of his proposed trip to Europe. A letter to those offices is attached for approval, it not being imowm definitely where he is at the monent, ~ Attachnent