A AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES : SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : —_—-. ue TS eee v9.1 HW 53130 Docld: 32303601 JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-10284-10113 HQ 100-30067-23, 24 Document Information FBI SAC, SF DIRECTOR, FBI 11/07/1945 a JOP, TRA, PASSPORT, POLIT PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4 Redact 01/07/1998 INDEFINITE INC RPT Page 1 Date: 6/15/201 Released under the John Kennedy Wss5asgsination Records oOllection Act of 1992 (44 U5 2107 Note). ase#:NW 53130 Date: HS5-31-2017
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Form No. 1 \/ THIS CASE ORIGINATED AT SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA WROQ FILE NO. 100-2907 ! : {| REPORT MADE AT DATE WHEN MADE fF PERIOD FOR REPORT MADE BY WHICH MADE WASHINGTON, D.C. | 1/29/46 1/20/45 51/16/46 EDWARD C. KEMPER ECK :cw TITLE oo a, CHARACTER OF CASE ¥, JOHN PITTMAN SYNOPSIS OF FACTS: INTE TERNAL SECURITY =— C Records of Passport Division fail to reflect that JOHN PITTMAN has ever applied for or received a passport. Stop placed with Passport Divisions : ~ RUC =~ REFERENCE 3 San Francisco letter to the Bureau dated November 7, 1945. DETAILS : AT WASHINGION, D. Co: / Xeoieidential National Defense Informant S-90, whose identity 7” is known to Bureau, advised that a check of the records of the Passport Division of the State Department failed to indicate that any JOHN PITTMAN, : born in Georgia, ever applied for or received a passport. ( On January 29, 1946,.a igtter was directed to the Passport \ Division of the State Department réques ti tig? + that the Washington Field Office be advised should the subject apply for a passport, ~ REFERRED UPON COMPLIANT ION TO THE ‘OFFICE OF ORIGIN - SPECIAL AGENT :| oy 7hE jj-; DO NOT WRITE IN THESE SPACES totals 2 p) _ ane IN CHARGE. Ma OF THIS "oy nye Ruréau oro? 3 - San Francisco wr Pd on. 2,- Washington Field ye es i) g APRS - 1940 . “ }° a a g ie U. S. GUYERNMENT ane J7—2034 . copies ESTROYED. ene a a TREE ET Tea \ HW 53130 DBocld:32303601 Page 2?
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Form No. 1 THIS CASE ORIGINATEDAT SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA WFO FILE NO. 100-2907 REPORT MADE AT : , DATE WHEN MADE "PERIOD ree REPORT MADE BY WASHINGTON, D. Oo. | 1729/6 abhi nen EDWARD C. KEMPER ECK row TITLE CHARACTER OF CASE JOSH PITTMAN | THPERNAL SECURITY - ¢ SYNOPSIS OF FACTS: Records of Passper$ Division fail to reflect that JOHN PITTMAN bas ever applied for or received a passport. Stop placed with Passport Division. , REFIRENCE 2 San Praneisco letter to the Barean dated November 7, 1945. AT WASHINGTON, D. C.3 Confidential National Defense Informant 5-90, whose identity is known to the Bureau, advised that a check of the records of the Passport pivision of the State fhepartment failed to indicate that any JOHN PITTMAN, born in Georgia, ever applied for or received a passport. Gn January 29,. 1946, a letter was directed to the Passport Division of the State Department requesting that the Washington Field Offices be advised should the subject apply for a passport. ~ REFERRED UPON COMPLS SPION TO THE OFPICE OF ORIGIN = APPROVED AND SPECIAL AGENT FORWARDED: IN CHARGE __ BO NOT WRITE IN THESE SPACES COPIES OF THIS REPORT 3.@ San Francisco ' 2 = Washington Field — HW 53130 DBocld:32303601 Page 3
- me scaoane FORM NO. . . . | 5 : . 9 } ) oe “ye _ Obce Memorandum ° UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT ro . : Director, FBI . . DATE: 11/7/45 , - , : NA4M8OM :SAC, San Francisco : oo, : oO 85382 ! SUBJECT: JOHN PITTMAN | INTERNAL SECURITY - C Confidential Info mant. SF 674. has advised that on Octo ber 4, 1945, ot the above captioned subject informed him that he intended to go to France in order to be present in that country when "the great upheaval takes place". The subject stated that he is absolutely opposed to General : DE GAULLE and that he is a friend of FRANCOIS-BILLOUX, Communist Frenéh Minister of Health who was a menber of the French “dele gation to the United Nations Conference on International Organization at San Francisco this summer. - The Washington. Field Division is requested to make inquiry at the Passport. Division ef the State Depar tment ~to ascertain whether PITTMAN has. applied for a passport to leave this comtry. If there is no record ~of such application to date, a stop should be placed in order that the San Francisco office and the Bureau may be advised should PITTMAN apply for a passport in the immediate future. PITTMAN is the Negre ‘man aging _ editor of. the Communist. daily newspaper, the "People's World", 590 Folsom Street, and resides at 1405 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, Califo mia. LMF :lmr “100-1465 cc Washington Field ~“* BRCORDED : “ pmemen HW 53130 DocId: 32303601 Page 4