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2 aides None nein CaPeptiont 7 poet allegedly a Comaunist and member of underground « ay FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION orm No. 1 Tus case omomarao ar LOS ANGELES rage, 2100-18212 { (REPORT MADE aT -. ror REPOwT mane ey ‘Ly >- 10s ANGELES ~*" 22,26,26,28, a . wv ~ 9 af) t rv. 9-11,14,25, | cosnacran or cass BERTOLT RUGEN FRIEDRICE‘ERECHT, 2628/44 INTERKAL SECURITY - R > | wi 7 liases;, Bugen Berthold Friedrich’ Brecht, SYNOPSIS OF FACTS: PERSOWAL & BGHRLOENTIAL, * +: ENTIAD Reference 5-iS. BERT BRECHT German alien born DNFID: Augsburg, Germany, 2/10/98, arrived U.S. at San rod Pedro, Calif., 7/21/41, from Finland. He is German * {in Europe. In 193) he and HANS EISLER wrote "Song of * Solidarity," adopted by Communist youth organization in Germany. He was exiled from Germany in about 1933 _~ , California, with kmowledge and approval of OTTO KATZ, ‘ a) alleged OGPU agent in Mexico, active in Free German ah and has since lived in Finland, France and Russia. so. } gig] From 1935 to 1939 he signed with LION FEUCHTWANGER - ae and HILLY BREDEL as editor of “Das Wort (The Word)", —_ i published in Moscow by exiled German C sts. In 7 be 1936 he allegedly assisted “Professor FACOBSON, taenS Soviet agent,” in organizing German-Comaunist Modern cas Movement Group in Los angeles, but Aiésnpresence in U.S.4: .y § 3 at that time unconfirmed. His writings in 1939 advo- . 3 SO cate overthrow of capitalism, establishment of Commu- agi niat state, and use of sabotage by labor to attain its j q SNends. From July 1939 to July 1940 he received $80 per - - QS month from fund collected by FRITZ LANG, Hollywood, . _ va s movenent, which aims at pro-Russian postwar German i , NO goverment. In U.8. he has written for "Freies i fff Deutschland,” organ of Free German movenent, end has , we affiliated with LION FEUCRTWANGER, HEINRICH WATS, and aon HANS RISLER, all ccammunistio German writers now in LA area and active in Free German movement. From February to May 1943, and November 1943 to larch or April 1944, he visited New York, where he allegedly was active in Bureau 2 Ben Francisco (info) |< 2 New York < 2 Now Orleans “ 2 Cincinnati 5 Los Angeles,