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Lede 100-18212 . + QREGORI KHEIFETZ, former Soviet Vioe Consul at San Francisco. It is known” that KEEIFETZ has engaged in espionage activities while in California. The Los Angeles Times for Ootober 25, 1947, stated: "Comunist” invasion of Hollywood was carried on lergely by ELI JACOBSER, @ charter mesber of the Communist Party, she fcunded the school now ae the member of the Gamunist Party, she founcse school now known as the *People's Educational Center’ and who has disappeared since quitting the Party, CARLSON told the committee. JACOBSEN, who set up the institution, was ‘very agitated’ when he decided to get out of the Communist Party, eovording to CARLSON,” "The FEC founder then revealed that he had been ‘sent to Holly~ wood by the Party to conduct olasses and educational propaganda among . film folk, not the rank and file but the elite.'" \ BRECHT testified before the House Committee on Un-American Affairs on Octoder 31, 1947, that he was not a Communist - but admitted that he had written revolutionary literature in Germany because of anti- Hitler feelings. He also testified that be had collaborated with HANS EISLER, whom he had known since the middle 20's, and had az acquaintance- ship with GERHART BISLER and other Communists. He also, according to the Journsl-imerican Newspaper, stated that GREGORI KHEIFELS visited him in 1913. A telegram from the Bow York City Office dated Movember 20, 19L7, Feveals that BRECHT on that day was in Switzerland, His re-entry permit Ma. A-1137990 - left New York for Paris, October 31, 1947, by air lines. Stop has been pleced in Mew York City re return. Suggestion was mde that @ stop notice could be and would be placed if desired. A confidential source, referred to as “Source BY in the report of Special Agent subject file, dated January 8, 1918, . \ reveals that; "In reality, BRECHT has always acted and written as a propagan- | dist of Communion and Sovietiem. In 1919, BRECHT was editorialist of the "Rale Fahne’ (Red Flag) in Augsburg.” - "I have followed BRECHT's career from that time. BRECHT was an unswerving advocate of Soviet policy in Germany. He wrote several outright Communist plays; among then "Die Massuaime’ (The Measure) and ‘Die Heilige' Johanna Der Schiachthoefe,* 1932, (St. Joan of the ‘sloughter houses). The locale of this play is in America, end BRECHT tried to prove the necessity of the downfall of captilism and free enterprise. In 1932, the democratic goverment of Hesse forbade the performance of thie play because of its Communist tendency. One of the short plays of BRECHT is written in praise of the secret societies in all countries which ° fer Soviet Rucsis.* a