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4 } be, aH Penne IE, whys ole per | Ait OAS, 4 RENN GN ab salah a+ i | “ok pe 4 lect ane 5 ; j bb2,. b7D QQener Governm bepr EINSi.IN's personal secretary known, in Say NK 100-32986 oot II. ACTIVITIZS IN GunhaNy of ov] «> ent aoelecet agency whicn conducts security and intelligence type investigations, e~ advised that information wes received from 9 reliable source to k the effect thet prior to 1933 the Communist Internationale (Comintern) and other Soviet Apparate were very active in gathering int-lligence informatica in the Far fast. Meny International Communist function: ries were stationed in Shanghai end Canton for the purnvose of gatierins intelligence information. One means nfs vt of communication used Ly these individuals to contact central Sp-4ity, headquarters in Moscow was through the use of telegrams. Such telegrams which were always coded were never sent directly to zf t> Moscow but were sent to gents in other countries such as Egypt . " and France where they were recopiad and forwarded to telegram f addresses or “drops” in Berlin. one of ‘these ky) OM addresses was the office of aLBRY sihoicIl in erlin which proved great quantity of to be very successful since LIN LIN received a mail, telegrams, and cablegrams from all over the world whose identity was not turn gave the telegrams.to a Soviet courier, whose duty was to pick up such meil from several telegram "drops*. This information w-s then channeled by one meens or another to Moscof S) a/ This source advised thet it was reported thet JINSToIN's Berlin Office employed at least two female secretaries, both of . whom were Communist sympathizers. The exact period that sINSTLIN'g office was used as an address for coded cables by Soviet intelli- gence was not known to the informanty however, sihsTuIl's cable address was alreedy in action as of 1929. The reason fcr the use of EINSTEIN's cable address was due to the guentity of legal cable traffic at that address due to pIkSTotl's established Interna- tional reoutation, which provided a relative innocuous cover for illegal communications. The individuel in BIKSTsIN's Berlin Office \.