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i my AO NANPA ETS iy” Cong nad ; La 3400-16112 wee but that inasmuch as LANG was an unusually boastful individual she could not determine from his conversation whether he was ling the truth or not. = This FRITZ LANG is not identical with the FRI iG mentioned hereinafter. It might be noted that BERT BRECHT has never n interviewed concerning his possible relationship to this German espiomge agent. SOURCE fj im advised during May 1944 that a Mrs. KARID- L. en residing at the BRECHT home, 1063 26th Street, Santa Monica, for approximately eight months. It was his opinion that LiICHARLIS is related to irs. BRECET. A recent mail cover reflects a letter postmarked August 25, 1944, Keene Valley, New York, from MICHAELIS, 205 West Fifth Avemie, Kew York City, to Miss LARSEN and Miss HANSEN, c/o iirs. HELENE BRECHT. This, of course, indicates that KARIN WICHAELIS is presently in New York and that two other individuals are possibly residing in the BRECHT home at this time. It is knom to this office thet ZARIN-TICHARLIS is « Danish writer who in November 1943 visited at the home of HANS EISLER, 1650 Avalfi Drive, Pacific Palisades, an associate of BRECHT. Further, it is known thet she is on the Advéséry Board of the Anti-Nari Student Committee, 236 East 62d Street, Mew York City, a German Communist orgenization. The exact nature of MICHAELIS's activities in the BRECHT residence or the purpose of her living there is unknown. This source furnished information from the book, "Twentieth Century Authors," published in 1942, which in part has the following to say about BRECET: "German poet, playwright and novelist, familiarly know as ‘BERT BRECHT! to the Germany-in-exile, was born in Augsburg, the capital of Bavarian Swadie.... BRECHT's ‘Ballad of the Dead Soldier’, describing how they dug up a soldier, patched him up, and sent him back to the front, circulated by word of mouth throughout Germany, winning its author the undying hatred of the military. Hie writings and unremitting political activities -- he was a member ef the i Augsburg Revolutionary Comittee -- earned him the honor of being fifth on the { Wasi list when Hitler's Beer Hall Butsch (November 1923) failed. : “after the Schiffbaverdam Theater of Berlin was offered to BRECHT for his productions, he trained actors who later became same of the finest in the world--among them--OSKAR_HOOLKA, PETER~LORRE, BELEWE WRIGEL, LOTTA TEulA, - GRAMACH, RRWST-BUSCH.... (Several of these individuals, who , RELENE WEIGEL, BRECHT's wife, will be mentioned later in this report.) os oF ead