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uary 1944 COPY INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL RESEARCH This is an unincorporated associatlon composed, with minor engaged in research work dealimg with social. and economic probiems. It is located in one of the buildings of Columbia University at 429 West li7th Street, New York. It is not connected with the it is supposed to give the Departmont of Sociology the benefit of its researches. Its real aims and objeotives are not known to the University authorities but these will be discussed later in connec- tion with s considerntion of the members and associstes of the Institute, and their activities. Although denying Any political activities or affilistions, ths tvidence developed indicates that it is a Communist organisation ot intellectuals operating under the cloak of social and economic ressarch, financed by an endownent created abroad. Before proceeding further, however, we shall give a history of its background and of the manrer in which it was established in Noy York as it is an outgrowth of an institute originnlly cr- Sozialforschung, which translated means Institute for Social Research, and which we shall csll the German Institute for pur- poses of convonience. The German Institute appears to huve been established in 1924 in affilistion with the University of Frankfurt where some of its members taught as professors of sociology. It was founded by a wealthy Jew named Herman Weil, a member of the large grain export- ing house, Weil Hermanos & Cia, of Buenos Aires and Rotterdam, ac- cording to a synopsis of an FBl dgont's report found in the file of the Naturallzation Service on Franz L. Neumann. The FBI received informstion in 1942 from an unnaned confidential source tht Felix Lucio Jose Weil also known As Felix Weil and as Felix J. Weil, the son of Herman Weil, used his lorge fortune to finance the Communist Party of Cermany and was presently financing an economic research organlzation in New York City which serves as an economic rejort centre for the Comintern through Karl August Wittfogel and Arkadij Gurland who acted as Soviet ogants in the Cerman Institute; tht he was associated with the Gernan Institute founded by his father at the University of Frankfurt. Whether this information is correct DO NOT LISSEMINATE Made ByrK