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L.4. 100-18212 Cd * GREGORI KHEIFET?, former Soviet Vioe Consul st San Francisco. It is known ~ that KHEIFETZ has engaged in espionage activities while in California. .~ -<k- rs +. ~ we * The Los Angeles Times for Ootober 25, 1917, stated: "Communist invasion of Hollywood was carried on largely by ELI JACOBSEN, a charter ee ee, ea. ee fPeunded he aanhnent nae ae +h menwves, VS Mie WOU eS EE we Saw 464 Weise we FV e known a5 waa *People's Educational Center’ and who has “adeappeared since quitting the Party, CARLSON told the committee. JACOBSEN, who set up the institution, was ‘very agitated’ when he decided to get out of the Communist Party, socording to CARLSON,” "The FEC founder then revealed that he had been ‘sent to Holly~ wood by the Party to conduct olasses and educational propaganda among film folk, not the rank and file but the elite.'" BRECHT testified before the House Committee on Un-American _ Affaire on October 31, i917, that he was not a Communist - but admitted that he had written revolutionary literature in Germany because of anti- Hitler feelings. He also testified that he had collaborated with HANS EISLER, whom he had known since the middle 20's, and had az acquaintence- ship with GERHART EISLER and other Communists. He also, according to the Journsl-imerican Newspaper, stated that GREGORI EHEIFELS visited him in 1913. A telegram from the Now Tork City Office dated November 20, 1917, reveals that BRECHT on that day was in Switzerland. His re-entry permit Ma. A-1137990 - left New York for Paris, October 31, 1917, by air lines. Stop has been pleced in New York City re return. Suggestion was mde that @ stop notice could be and would be placed if desired. & confidential source, referred to as “Source B* in the report of | Special Agent subject file, dated January &, 1918, 1 reveals that: "In reality, BRECHT has always acted and written as a propagan- { dist of Communism and Sovietiom. In 1919, BRECHT was editorialist of the "Reale Fahne’ (Red Flag) in Augsburg." - "I have followed BRECHT's career from that tine. ERECHT was an unswerving advocate of Soviet policy in Germany. He wrote several outright Communist plays; among them "Die Massualme’ (The Measure) and ‘Die Eeilige' Johanna Der Sohlechthoefe,’ 1932, (St. Joan of the ‘sloughter houses). The locale of this play is in America, end BRECHT tried to prove the necessity of the downfall of captilism and free enterprise. In 1932, the demcoratio goverment of Hesse forbade the performance of thie play beosuse of its Communist tendency. One of the short plays of BRECHT is written in preise of the secret societies in all countries whi d "*.