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Wenorandum for the Director Hazzard and advised him of this fact zard in turn notified the Bureau and sub- sequent investigation disclosed t Rosens was mentally unbalanced and actually | did not have any of the above informtion.. Hazzard was born January 5, 1909, at Syracuse, New York. He attended Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, from 1921 to 1926. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University in 1930 and an LL.B. from Harvard University in 193k. He went to Russia in September of 193, where he studied Soviet law until 1937. Upon his return to the United States he attended Chicago University and received a J.S.D. from that institution March 1), 1939. ‘The subject of his thesis was "Soviet Housing Law." During the period of time he attended Chicago University he was a lecturer on the Soviet form of government and Soviet law, and during 190 to 19h, he was a lecturer at Columbia University on Soviet Political Institutions. During the summer of 191, Hazzard taught a class at Cornell University on - Russian-American understanding. A number of individuals who have been identified as Commnist Party members lectured during these classes _ ; (100-3~28~126) . Hazzard was admitted to the New York Bar in 1935. He is the author of "Re~ forming Soviet Criminal Law" published in the Journal of Criminal Law in Criminology," daly, 1938, "House Cleaning in Soviet Law" published in "American Quarterly on Soviet Union" VolumeI, 1938 and "Cleansing Soviet International Law of Anti~Marxist Theories" published in the “American Journal of International law", 1938. In his books Hazzard has stated: "The essential idea of Marxian legal acience is that law is a class tool." He was heralded in'an article appearing in "New Masses" as the expert on Soviet law. _ During Haszard's study of Soviet law in Moscow at the Moscow Juridical | Institute from 193) to 1937, he was an agent of the Institute of Current World Affairs. _ ‘The Institute of Current World Affairs is an organization established allegedly for the | purpose-of gathering unbiased information on foreign countries and disseminating it to its members. They send young men to foreign countries and finance their studies in order that they might learn the conditions of that country for the benefit of the ; During the period of time Hazzard was in Moscow he was friendly with Herman Rollemann Habicht who was Secretary of the American-Scviet Chamber of Commerce. Habicht is presently employed by the Lend Lease Administration and the subject of an Espionage - R investigation. His wife was arrested by the Soviet Secret Intelligence Service (N.K.V.D.) during 1940 and held in prison until 191. During this period of time the N.K.V.D. allegedly endeavored to recruit her to act as an agent in the United States. Rllowing the arrest of Gaik B. Ovakamian in New York City, during 191 for Soviet espionage activities, Mrs. Hazzard was one of the three individu traded by the Soviet Government for the release of Ovakamian prior to prosecution. d William E. White, an employee of the Westinghouse Electric Company who formerly worked for the N.K.V.D. in Russia during 1938 to 1939, stated that he was é -he