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Lavoe = rr On Dececber 9, 1943, Gr addressed a message to BERLAD \ stating that lirs. WOOLIJOKI was still under trial before a war tribunal . oo and that any moral support would be highly appreciates. ACTIVITIES IN THE UXITED STATES, 1941 DUIGRATION-AND MATURALIZATION S7RVICE RECORDS etlee ee Los Angeles, California As has deen set forth above in this report, B=RT BRECET acd his family arrived in the United States at the Port of San Pedro on July 21, 1941, on the SS Annie Jackson from Helsingfors, Finland. coe ooo FREIES DEUTSCHLAND Copies available to Los Angeles Field Division The available issues of the magazine, "Freies Deutschland,” refiected that BERT BRECHT contributed an article to the December 1941 issue. It also _ appears that BRECHT contributed articles to the March 1942 issue. This magazine is knom to this office as the official publication of the Free German Comaittee, Mexico, D. F. This Comittee operates £) Libro Libre (The Free Book), a publishing house in wexico «hich gets out this megarine. It is further know that the Freo German movenert has as its aim the establishnent of a postwar Geraan goverment favorable to Soviet Russia. it 4s conducted by various well known Communists or persons with Comurist incli- nations, including OTTO KATZ, mentioned above as an alleged OGPU agers. The Free German Comittee in Nexico is the fountainhead of the movement in the Western Hemisphere. It has recently been learned that sone of the individuals active in this movement have indicated a desire to return to Surope or Germany as soon as possible, where they will no doubt carry on thei- ectivity at closer range. As will be seen later, BERT BRECHT is one of the incividuels who has indicated an intention to leave the United States for Europe. In Los Angeles, BRECHT is associated with LION FEUCHT-ANGER, HEINKICH IAIK, and HANHS ZISLER, German refugee writers with Communist inclinations in the Free German movensnt. ACTIVITIZS INTHE UNITED STATES, 1942 SOURCE gE This source reflects that on Harch 19, 1942, BEXT BRECHT was pictured in an Associated Press photograph appearing in the Los Angeles Exaniner with LIQK FEUCHTwANGER. This picture shows them to be studying a manifesto vhie®