Paul Soros , shipping innovatorand the older sidekick of Democratic mega - donor and businessman George Soros , died in 2013 . Paul ( originally Paul Schwartz before the class changed their name in the 1930s as the Nazis swept Europe ) fled Hungary in 1948 and came to the United States on a one - year student visa . And according to new document obtained by Gizmodo , the Albany office of the FBI lease bill of Paul ’s out-migration .
Paul Soros was 22 when he come to the United States and first enrolled in Columbia University in Manhattan , then the more removed St. Lawrence University in upstate New York . Paul was a highly skilled skier and made the Olympic team in Hungary , though he did n’t contend in the 1948 Olympic games due to an injury . But the FBI was n’t interested in his athletic prowess . The subject of the March 18 , 1949 memo reads “ SECURITY MATTER . ”
The FBI file , released to Gizmodo this week after a Freedom of Information Act postulation , include a March 2 , 1949 clause from The Hill News , the college newspaper at St. Lawrence University . The article mentions Paul ’s attainment as a skier , his interest in engineering , and his business concern that his visa was going to pass away in April of 1949 .
From The Hill News :
As for the future tense , further alumnus engineering work is his objective , but the fact that his visa expires in April make him some concern . He fear to revert to Hungary , he says , because “ they will put me on tribulation for being a assistant of the warfare - monger and capitalist . You ca n’t tell what they would do . I ’d rather persist here , ” he concluded .
The FBI memo also mentions his pending visa release , but hints that whatever prompted the agency to enter the filing cabinet was apparently of no tangible concern any longer . “ No action is being taken in the absence seizure of instruction , ” the memo closes .
Why was the FBI concerned in Paul Soros ? We can only speculate . A solid surmisal might have to do with concerns that he was an agent of the Soviets , since he was coming from Communist - controlled Hungary . But again , that ’s only a guess . The file cabinet is fantastically thin , at just four pages , and as best we can tell , there ’s nothing further sitting in the FBI ’s dusty cupboards about Paul Soros . This particular file had already been transfer to the National Archives when Gizmodo requested it this year .
According to theNew York Timesobituary on Paul Soros from 2013 , he left St. Lawrence after a skiing accident and inscribe at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn , which is now part of New York University . The obit never cover his visa consequence and how those may or may not have been resolve .
George Soros , the more far-famed pal due to his involution in popular politics , fled to London at the age of 17 , not long after his older sidekick Paul had come to the United States . Both brother would wind up in the US and both would become incredibly wealthy man of affairs . It ’s unclear how turgid Paul ’s acres was when he died , but in the early 1990s he was make approximately $ 100 millionper twelvemonth .
The FBI file on Paul Soros is incredibly slender , but I ’ve uploaded the entire affair below so that you may take alook at it for yourself .
Paul Soros FBI File
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