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ar we ‘Cm, OF mT * oe fr ¥ ¢ y | : aor on Rederal Buresu of Irvesriy. es Vles fan ° United States Department of Justice hot. I Los Angeles 13, Californie : April 61946 perce EE mo” AAG. ot Neale x Als slieucs sae EAD AR! be batt nea te = £8 oh, tor, rar El . : - Re: BERTOLT EUGEN FRIEDRICS BRECET, weas.! ian i INTERNAL SECURITY (RK) lof , REFER 6 IS i od Bureau File #100-190707 ee ened pearSir: : + » be a “on March 29, 19 National Defense Informant ae «0: Special Agents and! That , B RECHT, prominent in the movement in BsEr4 > 160 attended wy = @ farewell gathering given for BILL’ LDER of Hollywood, zno it will be re- rad called was selected by OMI to handle American motion pictures in Germany after ce the war. Informant advised that this meeting had been arranged for BRECET who : had previously expressed a desire.to talk ‘to WILDER. : During the course of -the gathering, BRECLT discussed with -WILDER the names of various individuals in cormany affiliated with the staze end movie industry.” Informant: was unable,to name the persons mentioned by BRECHT with one exception, namely HERBER' ING, a very well known dramatic oritic in Berlin, Germany.. Informant stated that BRECAT was uncertain abcut the anti-Nazi character of IHERING and said that he was one individual whom "we" would have to check, According to informant, the names suggested by BRECHT to WILDER referred to individuals considered by BRECHT to be "reliable™. During the course this gathering, informant also overheard BRECHT remark to someone that 0’ TZ, alleged OGPU agent in Mexico, had no ‘official connection and was of no political importance. Informant believes . that this is another indication of BRECHT's individuality in thinking which <=. renders him incapable of being disciplined and hence the type of person whox : the Soviets would not want in Russia, . . r tT? yaz: Confidential National Deferise Informant “a that BRECHT had remarked on another occasion that he had recently seen ROBERT . RISKIN of OWI. Informant described RISKIN as being BILLY WILDER's superior 3 - and expressed the belie that BRECHT may have discussed with RISEIN the possi- <= bility Of getting « “Job with OWI in order to return Europe. This meeting, - no doubt, ocourred four to six weeks ago when ROBERTRMSKIN was in Los Angeles. eae GK Se O CRN ED, & ODE res Lghtionthes indicated 4 Phan 3, « Qe , the United Btates with BRECHT and who f@sided at the de * 168° Maybery. Road,” Santa Monica, bas ected in the capacity of a secre ro BERT BEECHT.“; He is know to visit her.almost daily at the VIERTEL res ‘: '® recest exasty Vane iat