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SAC, Los Angeles (100-18112) sO: ERKAL SECURITY = & Ry.,. . . Director, rar (hoo-nearot)— 7 ig Ging 9 +t Attached hereto for your information is a copy of a 4 INDEXED - "75 sector trom the Springfield 0 dated 7-17-62, entitled ¢ ts "Die Dreigrosckenoper® (The“Three-Penity Opera) alleging that a : 3 : motion picture fila of this opera had been used im some inter= . . Rational espionage situation many years ago. Sag It ia noted that subject tho is the author of the . opera was the subject of the investigation in wiich your office 7 was office of origin. This investigation reflected that supjact was a meubcr of the Comaunist Party in Geraany and had continud fl his Communist activities in the United States. . . Tne subject and the opere are also referred to in the -. “ genorandua prepared oy SD oases "Council for A e Denocratio Germany,” which was prepared in 194¢ and a copy of , : which was forwarded to your office by Bulet dated 7-15-44. Bufiles contain only one reference possibly identical with bere car who is the source of the infor=s‘ior in attached letter. This reference reflects that ED was the informant in an unknown subject investigation in which the Pitteburgh Office was office of origin and in which shed @ smell notebook to the Bureau,ahich had boen . pad ‘ound in ope of the action-picture theaters, which notebook Ww A eontained @ list of battleships and other ‘Naval craft. ; ‘ Unless the files of your office contain inforsation pindicating @ reason to ‘the contrar;, iz ts desired that you ‘aver- RN ti view QP for inforuaticn only as to tho internct.onal os; ionage & “a . situation whioh is referred to in atzached leccer. = - ' gs Lod . actgentilee- = : -