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er, . Graham Mort son : : , : Ruscutive Assistant to she Attorney General - ee, <BEOL? SUGEN FRIEDRICH BSRECET, with aliases; * Please refer to my mengrandus to you of Wovember 3, 1947 in wich “sy you vere advised that 3 ** hed furnivhed information ject's 2 “connections after the: igubject testified ooteder 30, 1947 defore the Th-Anericen ° “aativition Coumittes that he had never been | a meahor of any Coumniet Partye — letter of Noveaber 6, 1947, confidentially aAvised , 3 . Brecht has always acted and written as a propagandist of Com =i * om and Sovietisn. In 1919 be was editorialist of the/fRote 7ehne! “Fleg) in Avugeburg. As a first reader of a vell-know Geman : ishing House 4ret Kasken Verlag) I have followed Brocht's career. . -.. on that Sine on. Brecht vas an gnswering afvocate of Soviet policy © «.~ Germany; he wrote eeveral outright Commnistic plays; among thea "The *. (tng Ceguura’) and fie Heilige Johanna der Schlaphthaete’. - 3932 of the Slanghter House “Whe latter play ie located ~ in America 2 Brecht tries to prove the necessity of the dowmfall of = - ‘eapitaliam and free enterprise. In 1932, the Democratic (Pre-Hitlerian) “Povernment of Heses (Darmstadt) forbade the performance of ‘St. Joan - ‘Jef the Slaughter Nouses’ because of ite Commmistic tendency, One of | tg he ahorter plays of Brecht (I forgot the title) is written in praise | “p Tet the egoret sccletios in all countries which work for Soviet Russia. AQerthold Brecht was in Moscow several times; he was co-editor of the 5 sslan negating {Des Yor Wort® (1% appeared in Moscow during the Nasi... “i Regiag in German language). ‘I reneaber distinctly to have reef in ome” of the'isencs a diatribe of Brecht ageinst Anerica. I hazpen to be - . ‘in contact with friends of Brecht and therefore I know that he hag wm , Bot Seviated a dit from the official Russian party line. Ser: ‘age he sald something like that; he and his like are now oniseet 2 ” pele themselves off ‘as deuccrate’. As far as I know, Preck? ph _ '¢0 travel to Burope very soon vie Svitserland and I em convince a v,be will try te sove in the Bastern’fone of Oermany in order cone bq spove nased vorks of Brecht ake_s' i sisted who reais "3 wu t deck de Dirlises. x8 is yoie