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tad oth 4 ee, é fo aes Sd a A 29, 3 aT ni ete PLA a ra FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (i 108 ANGELES ae ° FLENO §=100-18112 © naronr Mase AT DATE WHEN MADE PERIOD FOR REPORT MADE BY WHICH MADE LOS ANGELES 3/30/48 —«-(8/13,19,22,27/53 QD = ko CHARACTER OF CASE “mS BERTOLT EUGEN FRIEDRICH ET, with aliases, Bugen, Berthold Friedri echt, INTERNAL SECURITY (G) *Brecht S Berdat ALIEN ENEMY CONTROL “| SYNOPSIS OF FACTS: ahs Subject is euthor of FDie Massnahme" ("th¢ Di sciplimry Measure"), a self-styled "educational play" which ; advocates Communist world revolution by violent means. fr Subject also published letter defending this play and i , re ad - oN advocating its presentation labor grou fee a. pp ? aed id m— lp be - ()- “ r - P -~ oe ‘ penn PY al NCE: : Cra aaa | Py aa 2 * _ Angeles, dated March 6, 1943. Subject is the author, with HARWS/EISLER and S.{DUDON, of an “educational play” entitled "Die Massnahme" ("the Discipli Measure") wich are in German in the second volume of the collected works of EETOLS BRECET (BERTOLT BRECHT, “Gesammelte Werke, Band II) pages 329 to 365. . This volume was published by the Malik-Verlag Publishing Company, London, W.C. 1, and was printed *y HEINRICH MERCY/ SOHN, Prag, Czechoslovakia, in Merch, 1938. DETAILS: | fo i fe haves This play has been translated by the writer and # synopsis therecf is being set out below: t I. ce f, a "The Disciplinary Measure” which the authors call an : educational play, deals with the, work of four Commnist agitators who go 7 from Moscow to Mukden, Mexiéhir in ‘to:spread propaganda and support the Chinese a, Communists among the indy str es of Mikrdon. The action of the play takes place or BO NOT WPITE I THESE SPACES ¥ a Los areeiee Bie’ “+ i APR 2 94° Ha Aik ieee |