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CONF IpATIAL (100-2035. 0e WE Ret id Weel 6? Gh rhart and Hens Eisler. tt is noted that she recently testified before the House of Representatives un-American Activities Committee, at which time she identified her brother, Gerhart, as @ comintern agent in the United States and as ea ‘dangerous terrorist."" She also identified her brother Hans Eisler as a music composer in Hollywood who is a Communist and whom she also described as “‘dangerous.’’ Ruth Fischer has furnished to the Bureau information relative to the Free German Movement in the United States and Mexico. She has identified her brother Hans as active in this movement. In May, 1944, Ruth Fischer conferred with Bureau representative at which time she advised that she considered her life to be in danger due to her expose and denouncements regarding various pro-Stalin German refugees in the United States. She furnished to the Bureau numerous “‘exhibits** setting out her reasons for believing that her life was in danger and indicating that the NKVD wou possibly **resort to violence in an effort to silence her.” Among the “*exhibits** furnished was a letter which Ruth Fischer wrote te her brother Hans Eisler and his wife, Louise Eisler, dated April 27, 1344. In this letter Ruth Fischer advised him she felt her life was in danger and accused him and her other brother, Gerhart Eisler, of being agents of the OGPU. She stated in this regard, ‘‘If the local branches ef the GPU can succeed in making a clever arrangement for a satura] death -- it will not succeed this time. Not for you nor for Gerhart Eisler, Chief of the German GPU Division in the United States, the dreamer of the ‘fictional battles with machine guns” whose dreaming consisted of fifteen years of betrayal, the corrupt liquidator of Chinese, German, Spanish and anti-Stalin cemrades, This time it will not be made so easy for you. You always play with terrer and are always afraid to take the responsibility for your acts. I have made the following preparations: 1-Three physicians have----— given me a thorough examination. [ arn now in good health. There if no cause for a matural death. I am constantly under a physician's care and am taking care of myself in a sensible manner. The doctors are informed and in case of any trouble will testify accordingly. 2-A number of reputeble journalists and poli- ticians have been informed and possess a copy of this letter. A number of Ger- man immigrants have also been appraised.*" The above information, es well as additional information in the Bureau's files concerning Ruth Fischer, wea fur- nished om May 12, 1944, and June 12, 1944, to the Attorney General. (100-106997) aa ~l4-