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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 @ Office Memoranilitth ¢ UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : SAC, Philadelphia DATE: December 3, 1953 hai SUBJECT: Director, FBI (74-1333) |, fd ® saat OS AMG PERJURY ESPIONAGE - BR The Bureau has been advised by Bryant 0. Pearce, an inmate of Atlanta Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia, that while he was at United States North- eastern Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, period not given, he was acquainted and associated with Alger Hiss. According to Fearce, whose reliability is questionable, Hiss is in the process of writing @ book, portions of which have been smuggled out of the Lewisburg Penitentiary, which Pearce has read. These portions reportedly are critical of the Bureau. Tt ts requested that you ascertain whether Hiss is actually writing @ book and, tf so, whether any coptes of those portions GQlready prepared Gre avail- able. In the event such is the case, you should obtain copies and forward one each to the Bureau and the New York Office. ce - 2 -~ New York '* Lb 2 f4d- T§6 a oa | a hh f Vee oo to ae, oat 103545