[od-10123-10134 _—_ ae DISPATCH NO... rae S* 5G’ dhe SEA POUCH 7 TT ee eee ee oo Cer 5 6 tle ; ° whined: CLASSIFICATION To : 17 (0 DATE: Chief of Station, (Bern) 23 July 1949 Chief, Foreign Branch 2c Cf onan le MZ FROM SUBJECT: GEveraL- Y specific. Opera $lonal Pa A D+ VALE HED’ GUNPI (Gupree, fEMPEREA) (alee MDA/EISlER, HEDI /iass Ire) i, Subject wae bora ia Vieara, Austria, on £ Hed the, dcaghter of Philip end Boos (hve/E Geaéed gransar echeol, hig’ echeol, and : 28, went te wheat wee then Pelang fer PREY . 2 She teare@ Crechs aad es returning te Viger was eo-eiiter ef a bec pul Party. In 1926 Subject divoreed EISLER ang merried GOMPERTZ fer when she hed been working several years pricr to thelr morriage. 4, Subject and GOMPERT? vent te Parle after their searriage and then te the U.3., arriving om the 8.8, leviathan, After. brief stay ia Bow York, they west te Sam Francisce-nat lived with GOMPERTZ' anecle, Im 1937 they returned to Greenwich Village, Hew York, where they acnoclsted with @any Comeaniets. In January 1928 the couple returned te Barepe, te Frenkfort/iain, vhere OPTETZ worked for the Inetitutes ef Social Be~
14-00000 , Spd made a trip to Switegrian’ to’ sco'G stadent, vis In Bara FANS ta~ ( fidenbe's certain professor gota Brreq, “ Sabjest alse. wren x Seely with REISS* secietant, Felity SI LY RSFSIN. ple y Ges York. FPrier te coming te the U.S. in 1935, she vielted the FISCHERS for 5 Theat euseer Subject met raatfxaseis, eoe ef her beeband'’ a etudeste, After KAS*ILG received Big Ph. h, trom the university | Freskfort/feta in 1978, he and Subject went te Barlis vhere they ifyet ae gun esd wife, Thay were legslly marrie@ ta 1926, mass 3, Veo bee buen @ liberal at college, Joined the Commnist Party and e2i ted the” eagosine, “International Agreriaa Problens.* Re veal te Hoscot ii the winter ef 1928, and Subject fellewed three months aster. le BASSING worked af the Agrarian Institute, Sublect wes eapleped by TateraatYital Publishers, and thea ce a governess for the children of Loalé ‘ead? Kerkooshs FISCHER, FISCHTR was ct that ttoe Foreign Correspondent’ for *The Eation.® En 193] the KAS*INOS returned to. Barlia whore they tere active in the CP, However, at the suggé: tion ev EZISS, ta-ghea sebenes - Aa vesn lotreducel hy Dr, Ta Eiger Sub ject at this ties arepned out ef the Party se EB pal at,. ate orel4. etter fight the Pueciete, = __ vA dare Lu pee nbthee - . a cele Save le tad Sr Seamer os 2 SMBS lp ae § ‘G, Thereafter Subject begun be 4 adie to iéiliy. G6. 28 SPE BOY Qh’ te Frow 1030 te 1928 Subject worked with: 0%, _ %. In October 1833 Subject came te the a. 8, te reney her American passport. She had teecae an American citizen threagh her etryings. toe GOMPERT2, heving Been naturalized 9 Decesder 19z?, tn thite Plalas, Few two woeke in Resesy. in Bew York he lived at te Breveort Rotel fer a ehort tine, ang then, et the & of? LACE where she wes contacted ty Williaa Jogephy Ske iE, a Soviet “agent, : the 41d no sotive work for BENMAN at the tive, bat returned te Barepe the latter pert of the year, piekred ep her hasbead frase a Gereas ceacentratica camp, and returned with him te the U.S, in January 1924, Subject eteyed in Rew Yerr while her hueband went to teneh at Censemwealth Cele iegé in ‘ena, *rkmneas. 8. chile fo Hew Yerk, Subject wae in frequent teuch vith Viliies Joseph S7ELAK and Arthap [YALTER, fur whem che acted ae courier te Paris fo August 1924, Os her return froa Fraacg in the fall, she met severe) new hugcisn «gents, among whoa were Cerda STA*KY STTR, ®8ALIL*®, SRORIS® (BATAVOSET), and ®i°Tux*®, Subject worked with these people until the suzaer of 1927. It wns So SAILL® the$ Subject furnished the anes of toe)! 11). iL” is 1926 re@ a voasible contuet, fFtnls*, ®ELLL*@® eesoelete in the U.S., wes eguinet famedirte develonwent of FI'LD, ard ne action wee taken until Perl ©8°"i'G cont-eted FIZLD Up Paris. rr re a ae ee eC en a ens srurcatastel ih ecencsar «meant REESSB oe owt
siiee ert waddle CD. wis ta Dorks deine entlevard work, Tubject acted sg courier between the (0. end thet elty end also farnished inforactior about news of the fry from the "Sew York Tines®, in the guscer of 19°7 HAS ist returned frog Turere, shout waleh time he and subject received a letter from [gnats KlI°S edvieing that REISS had brokea with.the Busciang. Ae they hed worked with FEISS, they agreet that they toc were through with Fuseis. Soon there: fter, tha RASGISGS were contreted by PSLnTL® and g SHELLS (sre, Veeallg Secgimé) who trie? t> influence thes to go to Koscow., Althouch the MA°SIic° suspected that Moscow wanted to liculd:te the-, they dechvei to go aayuny, bat treveies on their Americsa porencrtés, errivins in t.osesw en 5 June 1927, 1G. During their seven-nonth's stry in Keecev, they were interre- gstec about FLI55 ard hie eseeci:tes, In dune 1928 they left Eusela end broke eith the Jovietr., They hove lived since then in Hew York city ené in Fenreylvenia, Perfodiesliy they hove received visits and calls from wericus Soviets inéie-tiug that the Kuselens ere weeping a check on thes, In 1946 the 71I¥LDs contacted the MAS IRGT and were told thet thay (the kS°I'Gs) hed dbroven vith the Soviete and 4i4 wot want te be woleetrd by the FILiCe agedn, 21, Subject has vorke¢ se 2 tranel:tor, boerding-» yane keeper, ehicyerd worber, cud nersonnel supervisor, She base eles vorted fer Jawe ish Chsrity fror January to faril 1946, Kost of her tice is nex takes ut with the oner-tior ef her borrdisg house, im, Subfeect's foruer husband, Julies GOMPTRT®, &¢ eurrently rane Aizg # book shov st 610 Fifth ‘venue, Bew York, and in Pinescial advieor ts the Sehoal ef Social Fesecreh, hecording te Subject, RT eZ treke With She Comnuntats in 1975, ho O log Yoo > 2 Brae ae