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"7 - _ Sem . % a . - a na Tr bed ee a ae x é i FD-202-(Rev. 3-3-58} FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVES: .sATION — - ( INTERVIEW REPORT {'} a Rareh 3, 1960 Date ee _ — SPsREy On February 26, 1960, STANLEY DAVID LEVISON advised Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (Fer) that, on several oeeasions probably during the late Torties, he had met with ALFRED K, STERN. LEVISON stated that at one time he (LEVISON) was active in an organization known as “Businessmen For Roosevelt" (HFR) and that he went to STERN's effice in Rockefeller Center in an attempt to sell him malling lists which the BFR had aoquilred, LEVISON stated that he thought STERN eould use these lists in the "Wallace For President" eampaign that STERN was promoting. LEVISON stated that STERN did not buy the lists as he sonsidered them worthless since they were several years old, | LEVISOK remarked that STERN impressed him as a "rube™ who seemed obsessed with the fact that he was e millionaire and that just being a millionaire made hin an important person. LEVISON remarked that if STERN was a millionaire he just barely made it and was the *oheapest”® niliionaire he ever met. LEVISON ecamented further by stating he did not know any acquaintances or associates of STERN; that he had no indication STERN might have been involvedin @spionage or with Soviet officials. LEVISON remarked that at STERN's office he had met MARTHA DODD STERN énd ashe impressed him as being a “typical snob," LEVISON stated he had no information as to : whether STERN had been associated with the Communist Party (CP) . or for that matter if he ever eontributed to the CP. IZVISON . remarked, "he'd be too cheap to sontribute.® LEVISON eontinued, "STERN bragged about the eontributions he made to various eharitable organizations, but from what he showed me, his eontributions were nominal." LEVISON stated that . STERN was always trying to impress people with the fact i. that he was an important man. He was a great “name-dropper.* He claimed to iknow all the “big shots.* HENRY WALLACE was fact: Interview with STANLEY DAVID LEVISON File # __100-112180 on _ 8/26/60 — 60 at __Wew York, New York York, New You Dote dictated ¥ 3/60, ba. by Specie! Agent iain anna Cc Thies document conteins neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FAI. It is the property of the FBL snd ls loaned to your agency; tt and {ts contents are not te be distributed outside your agency. -_ oe Cpe