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whe ee, aoe . eee sa . * Be eh ema ee . is . . af | \ ig 2 <=a | Qa | == + 3 8 a | _ g? ¥? 7.02 pa 34) : ¢ SAC, NEW YORK (100-86896) . ee eee nen: ALL INFORMA\: a CONTAINED ent”: ESPIONAGE = Re HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED. 2B SOBLE was interviewed a.m., 4/19/57. Sieeatioe— BS w ie Cw _ ere Tg nished background information concerning birth, education,— " . and family. SOBLE said that he joined the Clandestine Young * Communist in Lithuania in 1920 but did not formally join the.) 29 CP until he went to Leipzig in the latter part of 1921... 7 x SOBLE related that from 1921 to 1925 he wrote articles for ~ © German CP paper and other propaganda media, also speaking ae at CP meetings. . a * SOBLE related that as a representative of the >\ German Communist newspaper "saechsische-Arbeiter=Zertisng" | he went to Moscow to attend the Tenth Congress. SOBLE — stated it was at this time he was approached by a representa-| .. tive of the Trotskyite movement in Russia, Chrompiner, who, v asked SOBLE to bring Trotsky platform of its aims and pur- . poses into Germany. SOBLE stated he did this and that this document was the first formal frotsky plan brought to. Germany. _ .” SOBLE stated the German CP split startedxin 1925 but became open after his return to Germany in 1927. SOBLE stated it was on this trip to Moscow in 1927 that he married | MYRA SOBLE and that she arrived in Rerlin in 1928, . SOBLE. stated in 1929 he was expelled from the German CP and that this fact was published in the German CP paper. SOBLE stated in 1929 he went to Paris ene wor Ken ie a Yiddish- ‘told by hie fathead Pee id coe lve up ‘working’ Ker ac. 19 $7 6.3? eB foe : wt: tte as in, St EEE LEY: a - NY 65~-14702-Sub D : RFM:hki (#6 fee EC am (#6) #4