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Notable are a 1942 memo from U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to re Eisler's attempts to secure a work permit in the U.S., and FBI response including report from confidential informant; correspondence between the FBI and wartime postal censorship department; a memo from Director Hoover to Office of Strategic Services Director William Donovan; a detailed chronology of Eisler's movements and correspondence about him between FBI and INS and State prepared for Hoover; translations from German of issues of The German American; lists of names of people who sent postcards to the State Department protesting denial of an exit permit to Eisler.

Notable documents include information on FBI interviews with a notary public who witnessed Eisler's signature on his application for an exit visa.

Includes translations of and informant reports about conversations between the Czechoslovakian consul in New York and the Czech ambassador in 1948.

Includes surveillance reports on Eisler from 1943 and 1944, and requests from FBI headquarters for information on Eisler made to its Newark, Chicago, St. Louis, San Franciso, and Los Angeles offices; a letter from a local postmaster acknowledging an FBI request to monitor Eisler's mail; an FBI request made to the New Rochelle, New York police department for information on Eisler, crime laboratory reports (including crytographers' worksheets) on tests made on letters from Eisler and his wife submitted by the FBI; reports on information provided by confidential informants, including Eisler's sister, Ruth, and a 1949 surveillance report (produced at FBI's behest) by an IRS intelligence unit looking for possible income tax violations by Eisler.

Includes reports from numerous confidential informants.

Reports by confidential informants, letters from anonymous informants, reports, and news clippings.

Includes over 300 pages of documents collated by the FBI as part of a "report prepared in an attempt to summarize the pertinent information to date relating to the activities of Gerhard Eisler" that includes poor quality copies of surveillance photographs, as well as a reference to surveillance motion picture film having been shot of Eisler.

Newspaper clippings arranged in chronological order within their folders, and files (each including a list of its contents of that file) including correspondence between the FBI and police forces in Europe and documents from Europe (including Nazi Germany) re Eisler and his associates, surveillance photographs, intercepted mail and telegrams, surveillance reports.

Includes briefs relating to Eisler's court cases, files from and correspondence to Ellen Schrecker (from additional US government agencies besides the FBI) in response to her FOIA requests, including the State Department, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), Department of Justice Criminal Division, Central Intelligence and the Army. The INS file includes copy stenographers minutes of Eisler's 1947 hearing by its Alien Enemy Board, documents detailing surveillance by U.S. government operatives in Frankfurt, Germany in 1952, 1953 looking for information on Eisler, and documents of 1952/1956 discussions between the FBI and U.S. officials in Bonn regarding unsuccessful attempts to persuade Eisler to defect from East Germany.