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oA Pe . Zo Director ~2a 27 December 43 Britein from 1937 to 1940 and resigned from that post in November 1940. Mr. Xonuedy is a Demcorat, a Catholic, ami has an estate en Korth Gcean Boulevard, Palm Springs, Florida, end a summer home in Hyannisport, Massachusettse He also spends considerable time in Mow York Citys ‘Speciel Agent CE of the Boston Field Division, resident Agent at Hyannis, kses., hea bad many productive ine vestigetive exc scoial contacts with former Anbassacor Kennedy at ‘y) Byannisporte . Y, In the course of disoussing the Bureaute project with Er. (@) Kenredy, Agont h serris Ste informed by the former Ambarsador that he, (c/ . Keunedy, is still ectively engaged in the liquor business in ew York City and cons sereral moving picture houses there. He stated thet he maintains very close connections, financial and otherwise, with the moving picture industry in California and presently fears that the Communists ani their fellow travelera have succeeded in obtaining for themselves many key pegitions in the moving pioture industry. Mre Kennedy also etated that ha has some wery gocd counectious in Sovth Amerioa in the moving ploture bisiness and he added that most of the foreign managers of the moving ploture industry are indebted to him in one way or another; also, that he could eacily seoure assistance from any of these indivi- dusla in the event this assistance would benefit the Bureau in any weye Yr. Kennedy is a devout Catholic and is very voll vorsed oa Communism and what it might possibly mean to the United States. Ee has said that he has many Jewish friends io the moving picture indvetry who would furnish him, upon request, with asy information in their psos- secsiog pertainin: to Communist infiltretion in the moving picture in- dustrye Ee feels elso thet he is in a position tc seoure eny inforai~ tion the Bureau ray desire from his contacts in the industry wits rerer~ ence to any individuals who heve Comunistic synpathies. fhe Burecu is also recinded thet, because of his diplonatic background, Mr. Kennedy aleo has innumerable contacts in the internaticnal diploratio set end he is rilling to-use his entree into those olroles for any adventace the Bureau might desire in thie field.