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fines seein brink erin te ate eee ae A with the individual referred to in the Albany Letter. Boston. files refle on February 20, 1948, the New York Office had set forth information by letter in“the ease entitled "John Reed Soeiéty of Harvard University, Internal url G3" to the effect that Prof. Robert S. Lynd had addressed a group known aa. The Marxist Study Group," which group was formed. at Columbia and was siniler John. Reed Society at Harvard University. The letter further stated that since 1931 Lynd had been a member.of the faculty of Columbia University attache Department of Sociology and’at that time (February, 1948) he was a member Board of Directors of the American-Russian Institute for Cultural Relatt with the Soviet Union, Incorporated, and in the past had been a member o American Friends of Aid to Spanish Democracy and the National Energency Comte} which, in 1939, opposed the Allen Bill as "constituting a threat to the olvil: rishte of native Americans as well as forel gnera%. ee 7 There was an additional reference to Prof. Iynd in the files o Boston Office. pertaining to an interview conducted with dim, which ji wierr was in vonmection With an imiividual by the name of; Special Inquiry, State Department, Bureau Mle 123-3397. (Th interview of the substance thereof ia not shown in the report).;