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z 3 ' wm . . vay ep one i C: c Arr4i fl, be 5 y § 3. Edger Hoover, + . : FRI., Wewbiny ton. P - 9° Dear Sirt i 70 <5 * Readers Digest for May carries a story about Pr- 3 -l Albert Hinstein being a sweet simple harmless old genius who had?been ise duped by wed{iesls into perritting tho use bf hic neme as ing 4 13 supporter. - 34 But this gentle old darling, 30 innocent and naive, ; +? was introduced to me as the brain that was setting up Hollywood in the : . 25, Thirties for the big Comrunist push. ~ + ae “ta . I had been story and advertising executive with Eup A Devid “ark Griffith pictures from 1919 into early thirties. early } Y all out labor tory men vere bolsheviks, our head man havin: been 2% summoned back to Russia to take charge of films there. ql 12 . a 2 Our still photographer va3 4 Russian name -9 2421 One of our second cameramen — an open cor! 2 sent back and forth to Russia: \ li epee |" = | In esrly Thirties, I was executive hope ty department at RKO studios Among writers under mo or ye Y, Fa aes One i honed asking me to call on him at 1 Ambassador Hotel, tho mebrer bedng oast urgent: SPe. L found he had a fashionable portrait studio in 4~ ithe lobby. When 4 nected what was the idea,ani how coulj he affor? such 45 Urent, he frankly ssid it was a front: then he started a thre: -hovi / session explaining that the bolsheviks were soing tr tke ovr here, sakkbng at wo. time for mo to join. He hid an exageS a6) ide 3 1 af my TB<C4nportance,and also had bern impressed by a story in Collie a9 ivting me arong top three publicity men in ngtion agxgrkaxx shen 1 - do wasyaith Yriffith: 7thers were ang ed G7 : 4 + I Ye wos trying to sel] me on heeding propagendr. Bow ay. thought he ws nuts For * was getting $30,000 » year anj ging ur: every six montis. After trlking too Jong, he finally said: "ell, L 45% can see that “r+ Einstein has got to take you in hend- He + the one “thot never fatls with the big shots:" AS wn I wanted to know which Einst~in, ani he s.3d THE 4 by. Linstein of the theory. 1 thought he was joking, byt he said Na “$9 come along. Ye went upstairs in th Ambassador and he knocked at i: a suite Moor, and instein answered> “¢ sald he wis busy, bit would SL 52 gee me next day. 1 got a glimpse into hts rooms and 1 theught the 53 man l sow there was Vhag]{® Chaplin. 54 i ‘s Foe 53 * Goin. doonstal e313 me that Linst-in was 56 brganizif®p]) the big studio figures,*Se¢hulberg at “aramount, g7y/stars like *reddinMarch, "altertuston, Wlepburn etc,ani all the $2.) leating directors and writers. € said? “e v- got them herd c 5g. and the Dr- hax never foiled on ore; give him an HALCORBED: onyinges © ‘6 you." “Ao? 60 -~"f course bolskeviem then implic EDat Tove t En a samp a 4 as Communism does today: + wa: busy and ignored “e pho ° are cepted Vayto acces 1 das Jater he waa atotny oo ito vhon = j : {Fe